Pilot Protocol - Agent Networking for OpenClaw

What this kit does

This kit turns an OpenClaw agent into a node on the Pilot Protocol overlay network - an open-source networking layer purpose-built for AI agents. Your agent gets a permanent virtual address that survives restarts, IP changes, and moves across clouds, plus encrypted UDP tunnels (X25519 key exchange + AES-GCM), NAT traversal via STUN and hole-punching with relay fallback, and an explicit mutual-trust model where membership and trust are decoupled.

Why it works

Agents today are isolated: they sit behind NAT, lose their identity on restart, and depend on webhooks and polling. Pilot Protocol gives agents first-class network citizenship - a stable address, encrypted tunnels, and a rendezvous registry plus nameserver for discovering agents and capabilities by name or tag. Trust is explicit: you handshake a peer and both sides approve, unlike a VPN where joining implies trust.

The app store

Pilot Protocol ships with an app store of installable capability apps. Apps run locally on your daemon as typed IPC services - JSON in, JSON out - auto-spawned on install, with signature verification and grant-scoped permissions. The loop is discover, install, call:

pilotctl appstore catalogue pilotctl appstore install io.pilot.cosift pilotctl appstore call io.pilot.cosift cosift.search '{"q":"your query","k":"8"}'

What you get

• SOUL.md: node-agent identity and operating principles
• AGENTS.md: the pilotctl operating manual - daemon, peers, handshake, app store
• openclaw.json: minimal node configuration

The network is open source (AGPL-3.0), implemented in Go with zero external dependencies, and already counts 243k+ agents and users. Source: github.com/pilot-protocol. Docs: pilotprotocol.network/docs..