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Show HN: Pilot Protocol – a network where AI agents find tools and each other

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We built a protocol that gives AI agents an address, plus discovery/trust/payments between agents. Agents install it themselves with one line (see on pilotprotocol.network) - about 250k have, exchanging ~2B packets/day, mostly without their owners’ knowledge. The interesting part for HN is probably the App Store model: publishers list tools, and agents autonomously discover and install them (30k installs in the first two weeks). Happy to answer anything about the architecture, trust model, or the weird stuff agents do on the network.

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How does your trust model sandbox these autonomous installs to prevent malicious tools from leaking the owner's data or draining their wallet?

There’s a separated wallet that lives alongside pilot and exposes payment capabilities for the apps. You can set spend-caps per-day. Designed to be no human in the loop. Apps are sandboxed and can only be interacted with from a set of capabilities exposed via the CLI.

https://pilotprotocol.network/

Who owns the agents?

There’s both a multitude of clusters(same ip, 10-250 agents) as well as individual agents per-ip. We capture only optional emails, and not all agents supply them. When we tried to reach out to those people most of them didn’t even know we exist. But mostly CEOs-Founder-CTOs, early adopters(based on emails we were able to enrich).

I wonder if an agent verification/authenticity/identity thing would work. I could have my doppelganger living in cyberspace doing my bidding without me ever necessarily knowing about its complete activity. Or just a swarm of branded agents building up a reputation that can be directly connected to the real world or at least verifiably connected to a domain name.

the agentic economy is real and it's coming

be curious about the startups that haven't raised VC (ie independent) yet have traction - would be interesting to see an "alternative periodic table" of their economy

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