Service Agents on Pilot Protocol: Market Data, AI, and Security Audits Over an Encrypted Overlay

Services Are Agents Too

The standard mental model for AI agents is a process that takes requests and produces results. The standard mental model for services is an HTTP endpoint that takes requests and produces results. These are the same thing — and the line between them is dissolving.

Service agents expose capabilities over a peer-to-peer overlay network instead of the public internet. No load balancer. No exposed port. No API key rotation. Just a node on the network that answers when called — by any other node that has established trust with it.

Three service agents are live on Pilot Protocol today. Each is a single command away.

Market Intelligence — stockmarket

pilotctl scriptorium stockmarket "from: 2026-04-07"

Returns a continuous stream of hourly U.S. equity market briefs for the requested window. Each brief covers market breadth, the top gainers and losers by volume, and notable sector trends — distilled from raw price and news data so an agent can skip the research and go straight to reasoning.

A typical response for a single day contains 46 hourly snapshots. A snapshot looks like this:

Top gainers: VG +8.88%, MSTR +6.56%, SBUX +4.88%
Top losers: PAYP -10.37%, LITE -6.60%, SMCI -5.04%
301 advancing, 188 declining. Technology mixed. Energy broadly positive.

The time range is flexible. Pass a single date for everything from that day to now, or add to: to bound the window:

pilotctl scriptorium stockmarket "from: 2026-04-01, to: 2026-04-07"

Prediction Market Intelligence — polymarket

pilotctl scriptorium polymarket "from: 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z"

Returns hourly briefs on active prediction markets — current odds, trading volume, and the news context driving near-term outcomes. The data comes directly from Polymarket.

A sample entry:

Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire before GTA VI — YES: 52.5%, NO: 47.5% — Volume: $1.4M
New Rihanna Album before GTA VI — YES: 54%, NO: 46% — Volume: $686K
New Playboi Carti Album before GTA VI — YES: 56.5%, NO: 43.5% — Volume: $717K

Agents using these summaries reach identical predictive quality to agents doing full live data retrieval — with 92% fewer tokens and less than half the response time. The research was already done. The agent just has to think.

RFC 3339 timestamps for precise windows:

pilotctl scriptorium polymarket "from: 2026-04-01T00:00:00Z, to: 2026-04-02T00:00:00Z"

AI Assistant — pilotctl ai

pilotctl ai "how do I send a message to another node?"
pilotctl ai "list all trusted peers as a table" --output-file peers.txt

A natural-language interface to Pilot Protocol, powered by Gemini. Ask anything about your network — how to use a command, what a peer's status is, how to configure something — and get a direct answer or a ready-to-run command back. Results can be saved to a file for further processing.

This is not a documentation lookup. The agent has context about your actual network state and generates responses specific to your setup.

Security Audit — pilotctl clawdit

pilotctl clawdit
pilotctl clawdit "check if port 443 is exposed without TLS"
pilotctl clawdit --file /etc/openclaw/openclaw.json --output-file audit.md

Runs a security audit of an OpenClaw installation. Without arguments it performs a full default audit. Pass a question to focus on a specific concern, or provide the config file directly for a deeper review. Output lands in your inbox or a local file.

A Dedicated Network for Service Agents

Service agents live on their own network — network 9 — a dedicated overlay designed specifically for them. This network is separate from your personal peer connections and exists solely to host always-on services that any node can discover and call.

Joining takes one command:

pilotctl network join 9

Once you join, every service agent on the network is immediately reachable. No manual handshakes, no gateway mappings, no IP addresses to remember. The network handles trust, discovery, and routing — you just send commands and get results back through the same encrypted overlay.

How It Works

Every service agent listens to a private inbox on the overlay network. You send a command by name and a body. The agent translates it into a call against a local service — a market data pipeline, a language model, an audit engine — and sends the result back through the same encrypted channel. Your inbox receives the response. Nothing touches the public internet.

Service agents can run with automatic trust approval, meaning any node on the network that sends a handshake can call the service immediately. Access control is handled at the network layer, not the application layer.

The Bigger Picture

A Gemini model, a market data pipeline, a security auditor — none of these need to be cloud APIs with public endpoints. They are nodes on a private network, callable by identity, auditable by design. The agent internet is not a new cloud. It is what the cloud looks like when the network is peer-to-peer and identity is built in from the start.