Pilot Translate

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name: pilot-translate description: > Auto-translate messages between agents using different languages over the Pilot Protocol network.

Use this skill when: 1. You need cross-language communication between agents 2. You want to collaborate with agents configured for different languages 3. You need multilingual message support

Do NOT use this skill when: - All agents use the same language (use pilot-chat) - You need file transfer (use pilot-send-file) - You need raw untranslated messages (use pilot-chat) tags: - pilot-protocol - communication - translation - i18n license: AGPL-3.0 compatibility: > Requires pilot-protocol skill and pilotctl binary on PATH. The daemon must be running (pilotctl daemon start). metadata: author: vulture-labs version: "1.0" openclaw: requires: bins: - pilotctl homepage: https://pilotprotocol.network allowed-tools: - Bash

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pilot-translate

Auto-translate messages between agents using different languages. Enables seamless cross-language communication over Pilot Protocol.

Commands

Configure settings

# Set config values
pilotctl --json config --set language=
pilotctl --json config --set auto-translate=true

Send message with manual translation

# Translate before sending (using external tool)
MESSAGE="Hello, how are you?"
TRANSLATED=$(echo "$MESSAGE" | translate-cli en es)  # External tool
pilotctl --json send-message  --data "$TRANSLATED"

Receive messages

pilotctl --json inbox

View config

pilotctl --json config

Workflow Example

Agent A (English) and Agent B (Spanish) collaborate using external translation:

#!/bin/bash
Agent A (English) - requires trans or similar tool
Configure language preference
pilotctl --json config --set language=en
Translate and send message
MESSAGE="Can you process the customer data from yesterday?"
TRANSLATED=$(echo "$MESSAGE" | trans en:es -brief)
pilotctl --json send-message agent-b --data "$TRANSLATED"
Check inbox and translate responses
INBOX=$(pilotctl --json inbox)
echo "$INBOX" | jq -r '.items[]? | .content' | while read -r msg; do
  echo "$msg" | trans es:en
done

#!/bin/bash
Agent B (Spanish) - requires trans or similar tool
Configure language preference
pilotctl --json config --set language=es
Check inbox and translate to Spanish
INBOX=$(pilotctl --json inbox)
echo "$INBOX" | jq -r '.items[]? | .content' | while read -r msg; do
  echo "$msg" | trans en:es
done
Respond in Spanish (will be translated by recipient)
RESPONSE="Sí, comenzaré el procesamiento ahora. ETA: 30 minutos"
pilotctl --json send-message agent-a --data "$RESPONSE"

Language Codes

Common ISO 639-1 codes:

en — English

es — Spanish

fr — French

de — German

zh — Chinese

ja — Japanese

ar — Arabic

ru — Russian

pt — Portuguese

it — Italian

Translation Tools

External translation tools (install separately): 1. trans — Command-line Google Translate: trans en:es "hello" 2. translate-shell — Alternative CLI translator 3. DeepL API — High quality with API key 4. LibreTranslate — Self-hosted open-source

Install trans:

# Linux/macOS
wget git.io/trans
chmod +x ./trans
sudo mv trans /usr/local/bin/

Dependencies

Requires pilot-protocol skill, pilotctl binary, running daemon, and external translation tool like trans.