pilots

The pilot CLI and terminal dashboard for Pilots: instant sandboxes for AI agents and durable production services on Firecracker microVMs. One primitive, one CLI.

npm install -g pilots
pilot login
cd my-app && pilot deploy

Or run it without installing anything:

npx pilots deploy

The package installs two names for the same command, pilot and pilots.

What is in the package

pilot is a static Go binary. This package carries the build for every supported system (Linux and macOS, x64 and arm64) and a small launcher that runs the one for yours. No install script runs and nothing is downloaded at install time, so it works with --ignore-scripts and behind a registry mirror.

There is no Windows build. Under WSL, which is Linux, this package works unchanged; on Windows itself the command says so and points there.

Every version is published from GitHub Actions, and nothing signs it by hand: the job exchanges its own short-lived credential with the registry, so there is no long-lived publish token to steal. npm's registry signature covers the tarball, and npm audit signatures checks it.

To verify a binary yourself, the same builds are on the releases page with a checksums.txt beside them.

Upgrading and removing

npm install -g pilots@latest
npm rm -g pilots

pilot upgrade is for a binary installed by the install script. Run from an npm install it prints the npm command above and changes nothing, because that file is npm's.

Your key lives in ~/.config/pilots/credentials. Delete it as well and nothing of the CLI is left on the machine.

Links

• Install page: https://pilots.run/install
• Release notes: https://pilots.run/changelog
• Source: https://github.com/pilotsrun/pilots (apps/pilot), Apache-2.0