Pilot Service Agents Government

Government and civic data — federal register, FBI wanted, elections info, national open-data portals. Use this skill when: 1. Finding current US federal regu...

Security Scan

The skill's requirements and runtime instructions are consistent with its stated purpose of querying government/civic data via the Pilot Protocol overlay; it is instruction-only, requests no secrets, and does not perform unexpected file or env access.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description map directly to the actions the SKILL.md instructs (discover/list agents, send '/data', '/help', '/summary' via pilotctl). Requiring pilotctl and a pilot-protocol daemon joined to the network is coherent for a skill that queries an overlay of service agents.

Instruction Scope

The instructions require operating a local pilot-protocol daemon joined to network 9 and communicating with remote overlay agents (list-agents, sending messages, reading the inbox). This is within the claimed purpose but means queries are sent over an external overlay—users should avoid sending sensitive secrets in queries. The SKILL.md does not instruct reading local files or environment variables beyond using pilotctl.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec or code files. No downloads or archive extraction; lowest install risk. It does require an external binary (pilotctl) which must already be present/trusted on PATH.

Credentials

No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested by the skill. The mention of 'premium gcp-civic-elections' is descriptive of an upstream agent and does not translate into required local credentials in this skill.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and agent invocation is normal (not disabled). The skill does not request permanent presence or system-wide config changes. It simply instructs use of pilotctl to communicate with overlay agents.

Assessment

This skill is coherent for querying government/civic data via the Pilot Protocol overlay, but exercise caution before use: 1) Install pilotctl only from an official/trusted source and ensure the pilot-protocol daemon you run is trustworthy. 2) Joining the overlay (network 9) means your queries go to remote peers—do not include private tokens, passwords, or sensitive PII in requests. 3) Verify agent contracts with '/help' before sending data and confirm any upstream 'premium' agents require separate credentials. 4) If you have privacy concerns, run the daemon in an isolated environment or test with non-sensitive queries first.

Government and civic data — federal register, FBI wanted, elections info, national open-data portals.

All agents in this category follow the standard contract described in pilot-service-agents. Send /help to any agent to read its exact filter schema — the table below is a snapshot; the catalogue grows, so always verify with a fresh list-agents query.

Agents in this category (snapshot)

Hostname	Description
brazil-api-banks	Brazilian banks directory
brazil-api-cep	Brazilian ZIP/CEP postal code lookup
canadian-gov-datasets	Canadian Gov Datasets
fbi-wanted	FBI wanted persons list
federal-register	US Federal Register documents
gcp-civic-elections	Google Civic Info election directory
noaa-alerts-active	NWS active US weather alerts (GeoJSON)
nobel-prize-laureates	Nobel Prize laureates across all fields
singapore-psi-air	Singapore PSI/air quality reading
singapore-weather-24h	Singapore 24-hour weather forecast
uk-parliament-members	UK Parliament members search
uk-police-crimes	UK street-level crime data
us-census-population	US Census ACS population data
usaspending-agencies	US federal spending by agency
weather-gov-stations	Weather Gov Stations
world-bank-health	World Bank health expenditure indicator
worldbank-income-levels	Worldbank Income Levels
worldbank-lending-types	Worldbank Lending Types
worldbank-projects	Worldbank Projects
worldbank-regions	Worldbank Regions
worldbank-sources	Worldbank Sources
worldbank-topics	Worldbank Topics

What you can expect

• US and international civic/regulatory sources — Federal Register, FBI Wanted, Brazilian CEP + banks, Canadian open-data
• Google Civic Information (elections, polling locations) — premium gcp-civic-elections
• Structured filter-based search; /help on each agent shows the fields

What NOT to expect

• Political commentary or news (use news category)
• Worldwide coverage — each agent is country-specific

Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category)

# Read an agent's filter contract
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data "/help"
pilotctl --json inbox

# Fetch structured data
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/data {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# Natural-language summary (Gemini)
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/summary {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Response shape

send-message returns an ACK envelope immediately ({"ack":"ACK TEXT N bytes", "bytes":N, "target":"<address>", "type":"text"}). The actual agent response arrives a few seconds later and is read with pilotctl --json inbox. Each inbox entry carries the agent's normalised envelope in its data field:

{
  "source": "<hostname>",
  "items":  [...],
  "count":  <int>,
  "total":  <int|null>,
  "page":   <int|null>,
  "next":   <cursor|null>,
  "truncated": <bool>,
  "upstream_url": "<resolved upstream URL>"
}

/help returns plain text. /summary returns a Gemini-generated prose string. Free-text queries also return Gemini prose.

Workflow Example

# 1. Fresh discovery — the catalogue grows, never hard-code
pilotctl --json send-message list-agents --data '/data {"category":"government","limit":20}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 2. Read the contract of a specific agent
pilotctl --json send-message federal-register --data '/help'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message federal-register --data '/data {"term":"clean air act","per_page":5}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Dependencies

Requires the pilot-protocol core skill, the pilot-service-agents skill (for the general discovery flow), pilotctl on PATH, and a running daemon joined to network 9.