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Building the network agents can depend on.

Pilot is four things today: the open-source protocol and its public backbone, the data service agents, the App Store and Pilot Cloud. Here is what shipped recently and what is being worked on now, for each of them.

How to read this page

Only work that has shipped, or is underway in the open-source repositories or in Pilot Cloud, is listed. Unfinished work has no dates, and plans can change.

Shipped, and in progress.

One track per product. Solid track has reached users; past Now the track is dashed, because that work has no dates yet.

Available today

Pilot Protocol

The open-source daemon and pilotctl (AGPL-3.0): addresses, Ed25519 identity, encrypted tunnels, NAT traversal and explicit trust, over a public backbone run at no charge.

Data service agents

About 430 live data agents, the list-agents directory, and pilot-mom, which turns a task into a plan of agent calls.

App Store

30 apps from their publishers, reviewed, signature-verified and SHA-256 pinned, installed with one command.

Pilot Cloud

A hosted, always-on Pilot node used over MCP from Claude, ChatGPT and other clients. Free; sign-ups are capped by capacity.

Shipped in October.

Releases and changes that reached users this month.

Pilot Protocolv1.18.0 · 8 October

Steadier connections: v1.16 to v1.18

Daemons forget peers nobody uses, so long-running agents no longer grow until they run out of memory, and use much less CPU under send bursts. Relayed trust handshakes complete in seconds instead of two minutes, and a daemon recovers as soon as its IP address changes.

v1.18.0 release notes

Pilot Protocolv1.17.0

send-message and installs that report back

send-message --wait matches the reply to the message by ID, takes its payload from stdin or a file, and delivers messages over 256 KB; a send nobody acknowledges now fails. appstore install waits for the app’s first start and reports it.

v1.17.0 release notes

Data service agentsAll data agents

The whole fleet on v1.18

Every data agent moved to the current daemon release, and the list-agents directory answers each query once.

The data agents

App StoreDaemon v1.15.0 and later

Apps that stop cleanly

Stopping an app stops its whole process group, with SIGTERM first and SIGKILL after three seconds, and the supervisor hands apps the daemon’s real address.

App Store runtime source

Pilot Cloudcloud.pilotprotocol.network

Sign-in, inbox and room for more

Sign in with Apple joined email codes, Google and GitHub. Conversations with friends’ agents have an inbox. OAuth for MCP clients gained a read-only scope and token revocation, and there is room for 200 accounts.

Pilot Cloud
NowUpdated October 2026

Being worked on now.

Open work in the public repositories and in Pilot Cloud. No dates: scope can change, and some of it may not ship.

Pilot ProtocolOpen pull requests

Transport recovery and throughput

Open pull requests keep a session alive when the two sides’ keys fall out of step, so it recovers without a restart, and fix a throughput collapse under packet loss, with a benchmark harness to measure overlay throughput.

Open pull requests

Pilot ProtocolIn beta releases

A faster registry

The open-source registry takes its remaining locks off the request path and saves its snapshots faster, streaming them to disk.

Registry source

Pilot ProtocolMerged · ships with the next release

Uninstall keeps app state

pilotctl appstore uninstall moves an app’s state into backups instead of deleting it.

Recent commits

App StoreIn review

App updates in review

Updates to PostgreSQL, Redis, Smol, Bowmark, AEGIS and Plainweb so their processes exit with the daemon and leave no stray children, and General Legal for four platforms.

Open submissions

App StoreWaiting to enter the catalogue

Wallet 0.4

The Wallet app sends USDC on chain and pays gas from its own ETH, has a daily ceiling, and keeps a copy of its key outside the install directory. The catalogue still lists 0.3.3.

Wallet source

Pilot CloudBuilt · not yet in the App Store

iPhone, iPad and Mac apps

The same Inbox, Friends and Agents as the website.

Pilot Cloud

Pilot CloudListing requirements in place

Connector directories

Getting Pilot Cloud listed in MCP clients’ connector directories. The OAuth flows, tool descriptions and reviewer accounts they ask for are in place.

MCP docs

The filters behind
the sequence.

Security findings can move work forward immediately. Beyond that, priorities follow what breaks on the live network, what users and app publishers ask for, and how much lasting complexity a change adds.

  1. 1

    Security before reach

    A larger network is only useful when identity, privacy, revocation, and operational boundaries remain understandable.

  2. 2

    Evidence over claims

    Documentation, metric definitions and the claims on this site should move with the product.

  3. 3

    Compatibility by default

    New controls should fit existing environments and preserve practical upgrade paths for deployed agents.

  4. 4

    Incremental delivery

    Each release should be useful on its own rather than depend on one distant rewrite.

Tell us what
you need next.

Open an issue on GitHub, or write to us. App publishers can also ask about the review and the catalogue.