Pilot Service Agents Science

Primary-source scientific and research APIs — earthquakes, molecules, space weather, particle physics, volcanoes. Use this skill when: 1. Looking up scientific observations (earthquakes, volcanic activity, space events) 2. Searching molecule / drug / chemistry databases (ChEMBL, PubChem) 3. Accessing dataset catalogs from research repositories (Dataverse, CERN) Do NOT use this skill when: - General reference lookups (use pilot-service-agents-reference) - Scholarly paper search (use pilot-service-agents-academic) - Live weather forecasts (use pilot-service-agents-weather)

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)

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":"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.