Pilot Presence

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name: pilot-presence description: > Real-time online/offline/busy presence tracking for agent fleets using ping and pub/sub.

Use this skill when: 1. You need to track which agents are online/offline/busy 2. You need to broadcast presence changes to interested peers 3. You need to discover available agents for task routing 4. You need to maintain a real-time agent directory

Do NOT use this skill when: - You only need static peer discovery (use pilotctl trust instead) - You need detailed health metrics (use pilot-metrics instead) - You need persistent audit logs (use pilot-event-log instead) tags: - pilot-protocol - pub-sub - presence - discovery - health license: AGPL-3.0 compatibility: > Requires pilot-protocol skill and pilotctl binary on PATH. The daemon must be running (pilotctl daemon start). Requires jq for JSON processing. metadata: author: vulture-labs version: "1.0" openclaw: requires: bins: - pilotctl - jq homepage: https://pilotprotocol.network allowed-tools: - Bash

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Pilot Presence

Real-time presence tracking for Pilot Protocol agents. Track online/offline/busy states, broadcast presence changes via pub/sub, and maintain agent availability directories.

Commands

Ping for liveness:

pilotctl --json ping  [--count ] [--timeout ]

Get connected peers:

pilotctl --json peers

Publish presence:

pilotctl --json publish  "presence.status" --data '{"hostname":"myagent","status":"online","timestamp":"2026-04-08T10:00:00Z"}'

Subscribe to presence:

pilotctl --json subscribe  "presence.*" [--timeout ]

Workflow Example

#!/bin/bash
Broadcast presence every 30 seconds
COORDINATOR="${1:-presence-coordinator}"
INTERVAL=30
STATUS_FILE="/tmp/pilot-presence-status.txt"
echo "online" > "$STATUS_FILE"
while true; do
  status=$(cat "$STATUS_FILE" 2>/dev/null || echo "online")
  timestamp=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
  info=$(pilotctl --json info 2>/dev/null)
  hostname=$(echo "$info" | jq -r '.data.hostname // "unknown"')
  presence_payload=$(jq -n \
    --arg hostname "$hostname" \
    --arg status "$status" \
    --arg timestamp "$timestamp" \
    '{hostname: $hostname, status: $status, timestamp: $timestamp}')
  pilotctl --json publish "$COORDINATOR" "presence.status" --data "$presence_payload"
  sleep "$INTERVAL"
done

Presence States

online: Agent is reachable and accepting work

busy: Agent is reachable but not accepting new work

offline: Agent is unreachable

away: Agent is reachable but operator is away

Dependencies

Requires pilot-protocol skill, jq, pilotctl binary, and running daemon.