How to use the Module SDK with the Safe

The Safe (opens in a new tab) is the most widely used smart account and together with Safe7579 (opens in a new tab) it is able to use ERC-7579 modules. This guide will walk you through using the Safe with Module SDK with the help of permissionless.js.

Install the packages

For this guide, we use the latest version of module sdk, permissionless ^0.2 and viem ^2.21.

npm i viem @rhinestone/module-sdk permissionless

Import the required functions and constants

import { createSmartAccountClient } from 'permissionless'
import { toSafeSmartAccount } from 'permissionless/accounts'
import { createPublicClient, http, encodePacked } from 'viem'
import { erc7579Actions } from 'permissionless/actions/erc7579'
import { createPimlicoClient } from 'permissionless/clients/pimlico'
import { generatePrivateKey, privateKeyToAccount } from 'viem/accounts'
import {
  createPaymasterClient,
  entryPoint07Address,
} from 'viem/account-abstraction'
import {
  getSocialRecoveryValidator,
  RHINESTONE_ATTESTER_ADDRESS,
  MOCK_ATTESTER_ADDRESS,
} from '@rhinestone/module-sdk'

Create the clients

Create the smart account client, the bundler client and the paymaster client. You will need to add your own urls here.

const publicClient = createPublicClient({
  transport: http(rpcUrl),
  chain: chain,
})
 
const pimlicoClient = createPimlicoClient({
  transport: http(bundlerUrl),
  entryPoint: {
    address: entryPoint07Address,
    version: '0.7',
  },
})
 
const paymasterClient = createPaymasterClient({
  transport: http(paymasterUrl),
})

Create the signer

The Safe account will need to have a signer to sign user operations. In permissionless.js, the default Safe account validates ECDSA signatures.

For example, to create a signer based on a private key:

const owner = privateKeyToAccount(generatePrivateKey())

Create the Safe account

Create the Safe account object using the signer. Note that you should only use the MockAttester on testnets.

const safeAccount = await toSafeSmartAccount({
  client: publicClient,
  owners: [owner],
  version: '1.4.1',
  entryPoint: {
    address: entryPoint07Address,
    version: '0.7',
  },
  safe4337ModuleAddress: '0x7579EE8307284F293B1927136486880611F20002', 
  erc7579LaunchpadAddress: '0x7579011aB74c46090561ea277Ba79D510c6C00ff',
  attesters: [
    RHINESTONE_ATTESTER_ADDRESS, // Rhinestone Attester
    MOCK_ATTESTER_ADDRESS, // Mock Attester - do not use in production
  ],
  attestersThreshold: 1,
})

Create the smart account client

The smart account client is used to interact with the smart account. You will need to add your own bundler url and the chain that you are using.

const smartAccountClient = createSmartAccountClient({
  account: safeAccount,
  chain: chain,
  bundlerTransport: http(bundlerUrl),
  paymaster: paymasterClient,
  userOperation: {
    estimateFeesPerGas: async () => {
      return (await pimlicoClient.getUserOperationGasPrice()).fast
    },
  },
}).extend(erc7579Actions())

Create the module object

Get the module object for the module that you want to install on the smart account. In this case, we will install the Social Recovery Module. We will pass to it a number of guardians that can recover the account as well as a threshold of guardians required to recover the account.

const guardian1 = privateKeyToAccount(
  '0xc171c45f3d35fad832c53cade38e8d21b8d5cc93d1887e867fac626c1c0d6be7',
) // the key coresponding to the first guardian
 
const guardian2 = privateKeyToAccount(
  '0x1a4c05be22dd9294615087ba1dba4266ae68cdc320d9164dbf3650ec0db60f67',
) // the key coresponding to the second guardian
 
const socialRecovery = getSocialRecoveryValidator({
  threshold: 2,
  guardians: [guardian1.address, guardian2.address],
})

Install the module

With this module object, we can now install it on the smart account.

const opHash = await smartAccountClient.installModule(socialRecovery)

Wait for the UserOperation to be confirmed

Let's wait until the UserOperation is confirmed, after which the module will be installed.

await pimlicoClient.waitForUserOperationReceipt({
  hash: opHash,
})

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