Pilot Service Agents Reference

Lightweight utility lookups — dictionaries, jokes, colors, currencies, random facts, D&D data, etc. Use this skill when: 1. Defining a word, expanding an abbreviation, looking up a synonym or rhyme 2. Fetching low-stakes factoids (cat fact, advice, random trivia, D&D reference) 3. Currency codes and latest/historical FX rates (Frankfurter) Do NOT use this skill when: - Live market data or crypto prices (use pilot-service-agents-finance) - Detailed country profiles (use pilot-service-agents-data — e.g. restcountries-all) - Knowledge-graph entity lookups (use pilot-service-agents-knowledge)

Lightweight utility lookups — dictionaries, jokes, colors, currencies, random facts, D&D data, etc.

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
advice-slip	Random advice slips — daily wisdom
catfact-ninja	Cat facts with pagination
cheapshark-deals	Live discounted Steam/PC game deals
color-api	Color information lookup (hex, RGB, HSL, names)
dadjoke-search	ICanHazDadJoke search
datamuse	Datamuse word tools - synonyms, rhymes, related terms
dictionary-api	Free Dictionary - English word definitions and pronunciation
dnd5e-classes	D&D 5e character class reference
dnd5e-monsters	D&D 5e monster stats reference
dnd5e-spells	D&D 5e spells, monsters, classes reference
frankfurter-currencies	ECB supported currencies
frankfurter-historical	Historical FX rates for a date
frankfurter-latest	ECB currency rates
gcp-books	Google Books volume search (1K/day free)
gcp-fact-check	Google Fact Check Tools claim verification
joke-api-random	Official Joke API random joke
jokeapi-programming	Programming and general jokes API
makeup-products	Makeup product search by brand/type
mdn-search	MDN docs search
open-trivia	Open Trivia DB — quiz questions across categories
openstax-books	Openstax Books
random-user	Random realistic user profile generator
restcountries-name	Country lookup by name
swapi-people	Star Wars universe data (people, planets, ships)
timeapi-io	timeapi.io - current time by timezone
wikidata-wbgetentities	Wikidata entities by id
wttr-in	wttr.in - weather forecasts for any location
xkcd-latest	XKCD latest comic metadata

What you can expect

• Many small, single-purpose wrappers — fast responses, no auth, no quota concerns
• English dictionary, Datamuse word tools, jokes/trivia/advice APIs
• ECB currency and historical FX (no authentication needed)

What NOT to expect

• Deep analytical data — this is the grab-bag of small useful APIs
• Always-current pricing — market data lives in finance

Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category)

bash

# 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:

json

{
  "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

bash

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

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

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message free-dictionary-en --data '/data {"word":"serendipity"}'
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.