diff --git a/scripts-dev/check_auth.py b/scripts-dev/check_auth.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b889ac7fa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/check_auth.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+from synapse.events import FrozenEvent
+from synapse.api.auth import Auth
+
+from mock import Mock
+
+import argparse
+import itertools
+import json
+import sys
+
+
+def check_auth(auth, auth_chain, events):
+    auth_chain.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
+
+    auth_map = {
+        e.event_id: e
+        for e in auth_chain
+    }
+
+    create_events = {}
+    for e in auth_chain:
+        if e.type == "m.room.create":
+            create_events[e.room_id] = e
+
+    for e in itertools.chain(auth_chain, events):
+        auth_events_list = [auth_map[i] for i, _ in e.auth_events]
+
+        auth_events = {
+            (e.type, e.state_key): e
+            for e in auth_events_list
+        }
+
+        auth_events[("m.room.create", "")] = create_events[e.room_id]
+
+        try:
+            auth.check(e, auth_events=auth_events)
+        except Exception as ex:
+            print "Failed:", e.event_id, e.type, e.state_key
+            print "Auth_events:", auth_events
+            print ex
+            print json.dumps(e.get_dict(), sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+            # raise
+        print "Success:", e.event_id, e.type, e.state_key
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'json',
+        nargs='?',
+        type=argparse.FileType('r'),
+        default=sys.stdin,
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    js = json.load(args.json)
+
+
+    auth = Auth(Mock())
+    check_auth(
+        auth,
+        [FrozenEvent(d) for d in js["auth_chain"]],
+        [FrozenEvent(d) for d in js["pdus"]],
+    )
diff --git a/scripts-dev/check_event_hash.py b/scripts-dev/check_event_hash.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..679afbd268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/check_event_hash.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+from synapse.crypto.event_signing import *
+from syutil.base64util import encode_base64
+
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import sys
+import json
+
+
+class dictobj(dict):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kargs):
+        dict.__init__(self, *args, **kargs)
+        self.__dict__ = self
+
+    def get_dict(self):
+        return dict(self)
+
+    def get_full_dict(self):
+        return dict(self)
+
+    def get_pdu_json(self):
+        return dict(self)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("input_json", nargs="?", type=argparse.FileType('r'),
+                        default=sys.stdin)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    logging.basicConfig()
+
+    event_json = dictobj(json.load(args.input_json))
+
+    algorithms = {
+        "sha256": hashlib.sha256,
+    }
+
+    for alg_name in event_json.hashes:
+        if check_event_content_hash(event_json, algorithms[alg_name]):
+            print "PASS content hash %s" % (alg_name,)
+        else:
+            print "FAIL content hash %s" % (alg_name,)
+
+    for algorithm in algorithms.values():
+        name, h_bytes = compute_event_reference_hash(event_json, algorithm)
+        print "Reference hash %s: %s" % (name, encode_base64(h_bytes))
+
+if __name__=="__main__":
+    main()
+
diff --git a/scripts-dev/check_signature.py b/scripts-dev/check_signature.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59e3d603ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/check_signature.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+
+from syutil.crypto.jsonsign import verify_signed_json
+from syutil.crypto.signing_key import (
+    decode_verify_key_bytes, write_signing_keys
+)
+from syutil.base64util import decode_base64
+
+import urllib2
+import json
+import sys
+import dns.resolver
+import pprint
+import argparse
+import logging
+
+def get_targets(server_name):
+    if ":" in server_name:
+        target, port = server_name.split(":")
+        yield (target, int(port))
+        return
+    try:
+        answers = dns.resolver.query("_matrix._tcp." + server_name, "SRV")
+        for srv in answers:
+            yield (srv.target, srv.port)
+    except dns.resolver.NXDOMAIN:
+        yield (server_name, 8448)
+
+def get_server_keys(server_name, target, port):
+    url = "https://%s:%i/_matrix/key/v1" % (target, port)
+    keys = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url))
+    verify_keys = {}
+    for key_id, key_base64 in keys["verify_keys"].items():
+        verify_key = decode_verify_key_bytes(key_id, decode_base64(key_base64))
+        verify_signed_json(keys, server_name, verify_key)
+        verify_keys[key_id] = verify_key
+    return verify_keys
+
+def main():
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("signature_name")
+    parser.add_argument("input_json", nargs="?", type=argparse.FileType('r'),
+                        default=sys.stdin)
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    logging.basicConfig()
+
+    server_name = args.signature_name
+    keys = {}
+    for target, port in get_targets(server_name):
+        try:
+            keys = get_server_keys(server_name, target, port)
+            print "Using keys from https://%s:%s/_matrix/key/v1" % (target, port)
+            write_signing_keys(sys.stdout, keys.values())
+            break
+        except:
+            logging.exception("Error talking to %s:%s", target, port)
+
+    json_to_check = json.load(args.input_json)
+    print "Checking JSON:"
+    for key_id in json_to_check["signatures"][args.signature_name]:
+        try:
+            key = keys[key_id]
+            verify_signed_json(json_to_check, args.signature_name, key)
+            print "PASS %s" % (key_id,)
+        except:
+            logging.exception("Check for key %s failed" % (key_id,))
+            print "FAIL %s" % (key_id,)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+
diff --git a/scripts-dev/copyrighter-sql.pl b/scripts-dev/copyrighter-sql.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..890e51e587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/copyrighter-sql.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -pi
+# Copyright 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+$copyright = <<EOT;
+/* Copyright 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+EOT
+
+s/^(# -\*- coding: utf-8 -\*-\n)?/$1$copyright/ if ($. == 1);
diff --git a/scripts-dev/copyrighter.pl b/scripts-dev/copyrighter.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a913d74c8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/copyrighter.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -pi
+# Copyright 2014 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+$copyright = <<EOT;
+# Copyright 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+EOT
+
+s/^(# -\*- coding: utf-8 -\*-\n)?/$1$copyright/ if ($. == 1);
diff --git a/scripts-dev/database-save.sh b/scripts-dev/database-save.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..040c8a4943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/database-save.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This script will write a dump file of local user state if you want to splat
+# your entire server database and start again but preserve the identity of
+# local users and their access tokens.
+#
+# To restore it, use
+#
+#   $ sqlite3 homeserver.db < table-save.sql
+
+sqlite3 "$1" <<'EOF' >table-save.sql
+.dump users
+.dump access_tokens
+.dump presence
+.dump profiles
+EOF
diff --git a/scripts-dev/federation_client.py b/scripts-dev/federation_client.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea62dceb36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/federation_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+import nacl.signing
+import json
+import base64
+import requests
+import sys
+import srvlookup
+
+
+def encode_base64(input_bytes):
+    """Encode bytes as a base64 string without any padding."""
+
+    input_len = len(input_bytes)
+    output_len = 4 * ((input_len + 2) // 3) + (input_len + 2) % 3 - 2
+    output_bytes = base64.b64encode(input_bytes)
+    output_string = output_bytes[:output_len].decode("ascii")
+    return output_string
+
+
+def decode_base64(input_string):
+    """Decode a base64 string to bytes inferring padding from the length of the
+    string."""
+
+    input_bytes = input_string.encode("ascii")
+    input_len = len(input_bytes)
+    padding = b"=" * (3 - ((input_len + 3) % 4))
+    output_len = 3 * ((input_len + 2) // 4) + (input_len + 2) % 4 - 2
+    output_bytes = base64.b64decode(input_bytes + padding)
+    return output_bytes[:output_len]
+
+
+def encode_canonical_json(value):
+    return json.dumps(
+         value,
+         # Encode code-points outside of ASCII as UTF-8 rather than \u escapes
+         ensure_ascii=False,
+         # Remove unecessary white space.
+         separators=(',',':'),
+         # Sort the keys of dictionaries.
+         sort_keys=True,
+         # Encode the resulting unicode as UTF-8 bytes.
+     ).encode("UTF-8")
+
+
+def sign_json(json_object, signing_key, signing_name):
+    signatures = json_object.pop("signatures", {})
+    unsigned = json_object.pop("unsigned", None)
+
+    signed = signing_key.sign(encode_canonical_json(json_object))
+    signature_base64 = encode_base64(signed.signature)
+
+    key_id = "%s:%s" % (signing_key.alg, signing_key.version)
+    signatures.setdefault(signing_name, {})[key_id] = signature_base64
+
+    json_object["signatures"] = signatures
+    if unsigned is not None:
+        json_object["unsigned"] = unsigned
+
+    return json_object
+
+
+NACL_ED25519 = "ed25519"
+
+def decode_signing_key_base64(algorithm, version, key_base64):
+    """Decode a base64 encoded signing key
+    Args:
+        algorithm (str): The algorithm the key is for (currently "ed25519").
+        version (str): Identifies this key out of the keys for this entity.
+        key_base64 (str): Base64 encoded bytes of the key.
+    Returns:
+        A SigningKey object.
+    """
+    if algorithm == NACL_ED25519:
+        key_bytes = decode_base64(key_base64)
+        key = nacl.signing.SigningKey(key_bytes)
+        key.version = version
+        key.alg = NACL_ED25519
+        return key
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Unsupported algorithm %s" % (algorithm,))
+
+
+def read_signing_keys(stream):
+    """Reads a list of keys from a stream
+    Args:
+        stream : A stream to iterate for keys.
+    Returns:
+        list of SigningKey objects.
+    """
+    keys = []
+    for line in stream:
+        algorithm, version, key_base64 = line.split()
+        keys.append(decode_signing_key_base64(algorithm, version, key_base64))
+    return keys
+
+
+def lookup(destination, path):
+    if ":" in destination:
+        return "https://%s%s" % (destination, path)
+    else:
+        try:
+            srv = srvlookup.lookup("matrix", "tcp", destination)[0]
+            return "https://%s:%d%s" % (srv.host, srv.port, path)
+        except:
+            return "https://%s:%d%s" % (destination, 8448, path)
+
+def get_json(origin_name, origin_key, destination, path):
+    request_json = {
+        "method": "GET",
+        "uri": path,
+        "origin": origin_name,
+        "destination": destination,
+    }
+
+    signed_json = sign_json(request_json, origin_key, origin_name)
+
+    authorization_headers = []
+
+    for key, sig in signed_json["signatures"][origin_name].items():
+        authorization_headers.append(bytes(
+            "X-Matrix origin=%s,key=\"%s\",sig=\"%s\"" % (
+                origin_name, key, sig,
+            )
+        ))
+
+    result = requests.get(
+        lookup(destination, path),
+        headers={"Authorization": authorization_headers[0]},
+        verify=False,
+    )
+    return result.json()
+
+
+def main():
+    origin_name, keyfile, destination, path = sys.argv[1:]
+
+    with open(keyfile) as f:
+        key = read_signing_keys(f)[0]
+
+    result = get_json(
+        origin_name, key, destination, "/_matrix/federation/v1/" + path
+    )
+
+    json.dump(result, sys.stdout)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts-dev/hash_history.py b/scripts-dev/hash_history.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bdad530af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/hash_history.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+from synapse.storage.pdu import PduStore
+from synapse.storage.signatures import SignatureStore
+from synapse.storage._base import SQLBaseStore
+from synapse.federation.units import Pdu
+from synapse.crypto.event_signing import (
+    add_event_pdu_content_hash, compute_pdu_event_reference_hash
+)
+from synapse.api.events.utils import prune_pdu
+from syutil.base64util import encode_base64, decode_base64
+from syutil.jsonutil import encode_canonical_json
+import sqlite3
+import sys
+
+class Store(object):
+    _get_pdu_tuples = PduStore.__dict__["_get_pdu_tuples"]
+    _get_pdu_content_hashes_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_get_pdu_content_hashes_txn"]
+    _get_prev_pdu_hashes_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_get_prev_pdu_hashes_txn"]
+    _get_pdu_origin_signatures_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_get_pdu_origin_signatures_txn"]
+    _store_pdu_content_hash_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_store_pdu_content_hash_txn"]
+    _store_pdu_reference_hash_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_store_pdu_reference_hash_txn"]
+    _store_prev_pdu_hash_txn = SignatureStore.__dict__["_store_prev_pdu_hash_txn"]
+    _simple_insert_txn = SQLBaseStore.__dict__["_simple_insert_txn"]
+
+
+store = Store()
+
+
+def select_pdus(cursor):
+    cursor.execute(
+        "SELECT pdu_id, origin FROM pdus ORDER BY depth ASC"
+    )
+
+    ids = cursor.fetchall()
+
+    pdu_tuples = store._get_pdu_tuples(cursor, ids)
+
+    pdus = [Pdu.from_pdu_tuple(p) for p in pdu_tuples]
+
+    reference_hashes = {}
+
+    for pdu in pdus:
+        try:
+            if pdu.prev_pdus:
+                print "PROCESS", pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, pdu.prev_pdus
+                for pdu_id, origin, hashes in pdu.prev_pdus:
+                    ref_alg, ref_hsh = reference_hashes[(pdu_id, origin)]
+                    hashes[ref_alg] = encode_base64(ref_hsh)
+                    store._store_prev_pdu_hash_txn(cursor,  pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, pdu_id, origin, ref_alg, ref_hsh)
+                print "SUCCESS", pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, pdu.prev_pdus
+            pdu = add_event_pdu_content_hash(pdu)
+            ref_alg, ref_hsh = compute_pdu_event_reference_hash(pdu)
+            reference_hashes[(pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin)] = (ref_alg, ref_hsh)
+            store._store_pdu_reference_hash_txn(cursor, pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, ref_alg, ref_hsh)
+
+            for alg, hsh_base64 in pdu.hashes.items():
+                print alg, hsh_base64
+                store._store_pdu_content_hash_txn(cursor, pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, alg, decode_base64(hsh_base64))
+
+        except:
+            print "FAILED_", pdu.pdu_id, pdu.origin, pdu.prev_pdus
+
+def main():
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1])
+    cursor = conn.cursor()
+    select_pdus(cursor)
+    conn.commit()
+
+if __name__=='__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts-dev/make_identicons.pl b/scripts-dev/make_identicons.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..cbff63e298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/make_identicons.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use DBI;
+use DBD::SQLite;
+use JSON;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my $db; # = "homeserver.db";
+my $server = "http://localhost:8008";
+my $size = 320;
+
+GetOptions("db|d=s",     \$db,
+           "server|s=s", \$server,
+           "width|w=i",  \$size) or usage();
+
+usage() unless $db;
+
+my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=$db","","") || die $DBI::errstr;
+
+my $res = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("select token, name from access_tokens, users where access_tokens.user_id = users.id group by user_id") || die $DBI::errstr;
+
+foreach (@$res) {
+    my ($token, $mxid) = ($_->[0], $_->[1]);
+    my ($user_id) = ($mxid =~ m/@(.*):/);
+    my ($url) = $dbh->selectrow_array("select avatar_url from profiles where user_id=?", undef, $user_id);
+    if (!$url || $url =~ /#auto$/) {
+        `curl -s -o tmp.png "$server/_matrix/media/v1/identicon?name=${mxid}&width=$size&height=$size"`;
+        my $json = `curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: image/png" -T "tmp.png" $server/_matrix/media/v1/upload?access_token=$token`;
+        my $content_uri = from_json($json)->{content_uri};
+        `curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{ "avatar_url": "${content_uri}#auto"}' $server/_matrix/client/api/v1/profile/${mxid}/avatar_url?access_token=$token`;
+    }
+}
+
+sub usage {
+    die "usage: ./make-identicons.pl\n\t-d database [e.g. homeserver.db]\n\t-s homeserver (default: http://localhost:8008)\n\t-w identicon size in pixels (default 320)";
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts-dev/nuke-room-from-db.sh b/scripts-dev/nuke-room-from-db.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..58c036c896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/nuke-room-from-db.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+## CAUTION:
+## This script will remove (hopefully) all trace of the given room ID from
+## your homeserver.db
+
+## Do not run it lightly.
+
+ROOMID="$1"
+
+sqlite3 homeserver.db <<EOF
+DELETE FROM context_depth WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM current_state WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM feedback WHERE room_id = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM messages WHERE room_id = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM pdu_backward_extremities WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM pdu_edges WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM pdu_forward_extremities WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM pdus WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM room_data WHERE room_id = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM room_memberships WHERE room_id = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM rooms WHERE room_id = '$ROOMID';
+DELETE FROM state_pdus WHERE context = '$ROOMID';
+EOF
diff --git a/scripts-dev/sphinx_api_docs.sh b/scripts-dev/sphinx_api_docs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee72b29657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/sphinx_api_docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sphinx-apidoc -o docs/sphinx/ synapse/ -ef