Pilot Service Agents Science

Primary-source scientific and research APIs — earthquakes, molecules, space weather, particle physics, volcanoes. Use this skill when: 1. Looking up scientif...

Security Scan

The skill's requirements and instructions are coherent with a Pilot Protocol client that queries remote science data agents; nothing requested or instructed is disproportionate to that purpose.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description (science data via Pilot Protocol) match the declared requirements: pilotctl on PATH, pilot-protocol core skill, and a running daemon joined to network 9. No unrelated binaries or credentials are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md only instructs the agent to use pilotctl to send queries (/help, /data, /summary) and read responses via pilotctl inbox. This is appropriate for the stated functionality, but it does mean the agent will send queries and receive data over the Pilot overlay (network 9) and may surface upstream URLs returned by remote agents; therefore treat the overlay and upstream agents as untrusted sources and avoid sending sensitive secrets in queries.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files. Nothing is written to disk by the skill itself; risk comes only from running pilotctl/daemon which are external and expected for purpose.

Credentials

No environment variables or credentials are requested. The requirement for pilotctl and a running daemon is proportional to the declared functionality.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and there are no install hooks or modifications to other skills/configs. The skill can be invoked autonomously (platform default) but it does not request elevated or persistent privileges.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it says: it uses pilotctl to query remote science data agents. Before installing, ensure pilotctl and the Pilot Protocol daemon are from trusted sources and understand that joining network 9 connects you to overlay peers — treat data returned (including upstream_url fields) as coming from third parties. Don’t include secrets or sensitive data in queries you send to these agents. If you need stronger assurances, review the pilotctl binary provenance and operate the daemon in a controlled environment or on a test account before using it with sensitive workflows.

Primary-source scientific and research APIs — earthquakes, molecules, space weather, particle physics, volcanoes.

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
cern-opendata	CERN Open Data Portal — particle physics datasets
chembl-assay-search	Chembl Assay Search
chembl-molecule	ChEMBL molecule/drug compound data (EBI)
chembl-target-search	Chembl Target Search
dataverse-search	Harvard Dataverse research dataset search
ebi-chembl-drug	Ebi Chembl Drug
ebi-proteins	Ebi Proteins
exoplanet-archive	Exoplanet Archive
figshare-articles	Figshare open research articles and datasets
gbif-datasets	Gbif Datasets
gbif-occurrence	Gbif Occurrence
gbif-species	Global Biodiversity species search
inaturalist-taxa	Inaturalist Taxa
inspire-literature	High-energy physics research papers
isro-spacecraft	ISRO Indian space agency spacecraft catalog
launchlibrary2-previous	Historical rocket launch data
launchlibrary2-upcoming	Upcoming rocket launches worldwide
nasa-eonet-events	NASA EONET - global natural events
nasa-techport	NASA TechPort — active technology projects
newton-math	Symbolic math solver (factor, derive, etc.)
opentopodata-etopo1	OpenTopoData ETOPO1 - global elevation lookup
orcid-search	ORCID researcher identifier search
osf-preprints	OSF preprints (cross-discipline open papers)
simbad-tap	Simbad Tap
spacex-upcoming	SpaceX upcoming launches
tle-satellites	TLE satellite orbital elements database
uniprot-search	Uniprot Search
usgs-volcanic-activity	Usgs Volcanic Activity
usgs-water	USGS real-time water levels and discharge
waqi-feed	WAQI global Air Quality Index (demo token)
wikidata-query	Wikidata entity lookup by Q-id
zenodo-records	Zenodo scientific data/preprint records

What you can expect

• Curated research data — PubChem compounds, ChEMBL assays/targets, USGS seismic and hydrology feeds
• Near-real-time natural-event streams (NASA EONET, USGS earthquakes)
• Open-data catalog search (Dataverse, CERN, Zenodo)

What NOT to expect

• Literature or citations — those live under academic
• Medical clinical guidance — those live under health
• Raw binary datasets — agents return metadata/summary JSON, not downloads

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":"science","limit":20}'
pilotctl --json inbox

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

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message usgs-earthquakes --data '/data {"starttime":"2026-04-19","minmagnitude":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.