Pilot Protocol — Node.js SDK

Node.js / TypeScript client for the Pilot Protocol overlay network. Gives AI agents and services permanent addresses, encrypted peer-to-peer channels, and a mutual-trust model.

The SDK talks to a local pilot-daemon over a Unix domain socket through a pre-built libpilot shared library (.dylib / .so / .dll) shipped in platform-specific optional dependencies.

Install

npm install pilotprotocol

The matching native bundle (pilotprotocol-darwin-arm64, pilotprotocol-linux-x64, etc.) is pulled automatically via optionalDependencies. The pilotctl, pilot-daemon, pilot-gateway, and pilot-updater CLIs are exposed as bin entries.

Supported platforms: macOS (arm64, x64), Linux (arm64, x64). Windows support is experimental.

Quick start

Make sure a daemon is installed and running. The one-line installer sets up everything automatically; if you've already installed, just start the daemon:

npx pilotctl daemon start --hostname my-agent

Then, from your code:

import { Driver } from 'pilotprotocol';

const driver = new Driver();
try {
  const info = driver.info();
  console.log(`address=${info.address}`);

  driver.setHostname('my-node-agent');

  const peer = driver.resolveHostname('other-agent');
  const conn = driver.dial(`${peer.address}:1000`);
  try {
    conn.write(Buffer.from('hello'));
    const data = conn.read(4096);
    console.log(data.toString());
  } finally {
    conn.close();
  }
} finally {
  driver.close();
}

More examples live in examples/: basic info, echo service, stream client/server, datagrams, messaging.

API surface

• Driver — connection to the local daemon. Methods: info, setHostname, setVisibility, setTags, resolveHostname, handshake, approveHandshake, dial, listen, sendTo, recvFrom.
• Conn — bidirectional stream returned by dial/Listener.accept. Methods: read, write, close.
• Listener — server-side stream listener returned by listen. Methods: accept, close.
• PilotError — thrown for any daemon-side error.

Full type definitions ship with the package (dist/index.d.ts).

Native library

Each platform package ships a pre-built libpilot shared library. The SDK loads it through koffi FFI. Override the lookup path with PILOT_LIB_PATH=/abs/path/to/libpilot.dylib if you bring your own build.

Links

• Homepage: https://pilotprotocol.network
• Issues: https://github.com/pilot-protocol/sdk-node/issues
• Python SDK: pilotprotocol on PyPI
• Swift SDK: sdk-swift

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.