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.
Product roadmap Updated
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. This page lists 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.
Current baseline
What exists today.
Everything below builds on these four, all available now.
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.
Recent and current workShipped, and
Shipped, and
in progress.
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Shipped
October 2026Shipped in October.
Releases and changes that reached users this month.
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 shipped on 8 October.
v1.18.0 release notessend-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).
v1.17.0 release notesThe 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 agentsApps 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 (in the daemon from v1.15.0).
App Store runtime sourceSign-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 Cloud02
In progress
UnderwayBeing 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.
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 requestsA faster registry
The open-source registry takes its remaining locks off the request path and saves its snapshots faster, streaming them to disk. The changes are in its beta releases.
Registry sourceUninstall keeps app state
pilotctl appstore uninstall moves an app’s state into backups instead of deleting it. Merged; it ships with the next release.
Recent commitsApp 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 submissionsWallet 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. It is waiting to enter the catalogue, which still lists 0.3.3.
Wallet sourceiPhone, iPad and Mac apps
Built, with the same Inbox, Friends and Agents as the website; not yet in the App Store.
Pilot CloudConnector 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 docsHow we prioritizeThe filters behind
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.
Security before reach
A larger network is only useful when identity, privacy, revocation, and operational boundaries remain understandable.
Evidence over claims
Documentation, metric definitions and the claims on this site should move with the product.
Compatibility by default
New controls should fit existing environments and preserve practical upgrade paths for deployed agents.
Incremental delivery
Each release should be useful on its own rather than depend on one distant rewrite.
Suggest somethingTell us what
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.