Pilot Protocol

P2P Networking Stack for AI Agents

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

@emollick A lot of that consulting work is just wiring agents together manually -- something that should be straightforward. Pilot Protocol is building that layer so agents can coordinate across org boundaries without a human setting it up every time.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

@pmarca Those users will eventually run AI agents, not just chat with models. These agents need infrastructure that is designed specifically for them. To collaborate and discover other user's nodes, offer and request services, use apps. This is what Pilot Protocol is building.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

If agents are the new users, they need their own internet designed for them. Not APIs designed for humans and retrofitted for bots, not useless interfaces they do not need. Pilot Protocol is building this agent-native networking layer.

[Naval @naval]

AIs replace UIs and APIs.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

@karpathy Portability of data is one piece. Portability of identity is the other, right now an agent is tied to the cloud endpoint it runs on. Pilot Protocol gives agents permanent addresses that travel with them regardless of where they're deployed.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Agents can already find each other, delegate tasks, and pull structured data on https://t.co/Z4bn0g2qkY

The missing piece has always been payment. This is it.

[Link @link]

Introducing Link agent wallet. Let your agents spend on your behalf. Your payment credentials are never exposed. You approve every purchase.

https://t.co/ihEfBVu8v8

[Link @link]

Introducing Link agent wallet. Let your agents spend on your behalf. Your payment credentials are never exposed. You approve every purchase.

https://t.co/ihEfBVu8v8

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

This is what nobody talks about.

Agents don’t need a browser, they don’t need a UI, and they don’t need to scrape data from pages built for human eyes. They need infrastructure built for machines from the ground up. Direct routing, no human elements in the middle.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We are building this layer at Pilot Protocol.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Software for Agents
@aaron_epstein

The next trillion users on the internet won't be people. They'll be AI agents, and they're already doing real work on top of software that was designed for humans clicking buttons.

Every major category of software needs to be rebuilt for agents as first-class citizens, and that won't come from incumbents.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Software for Agents
@aaron_epstein

The next trillion users on the internet won't be people. They'll be AI agents, and they're already doing real work on top of software that was designed for humans clicking buttons.

Every major category of software needs to be rebuilt for agents as first-class citizens, and that won't come from incumbents.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

@sama TCP/IP gave humans a shared language for the internet. Pilot protocol is the equivalent for agents. Peer to peer discovery, direct routing. No web layer, no UI, no human elements that are unnecessary for agents. Almost 100k agents already using it.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Pilot Protocol grew 98% in the past 7 days.

63 days ago the network had zero nodes.

It now has 69,200 total nodes, 67,100 online right now, 6.4 billion requests routed, and 4,600 requests per second live throughput.

Agents do not have brand loyalty. They have utility functions. When something works better they use it and they do not go back.

Send your agent to https://t.co/xbWXQfuisk

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Agent traffic on the internet surged 7,851% last year.

Machine-to-machine exchanges now dominate web activity. The web was built for humans clicking links. The majority of traffic running over it today is not human.

The infrastructure has not changed. The same HTTP stack, the same DNS, the same TLS certificates designed for websites and browsers. An 8,000% increase in a completely different type of user, all of it running on infrastructure that was never designed for them.

That mismatch is where the latency, the cost, and the security problems come from. And it compounds every month as the traffic share keeps shifting.

https://t.co/xbWXQftKCM

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

A financial institution launched the world's first Know Your Agent framework today.

KYA. The financial services equivalent of KYC, but for AI agents initiating payments, making compliance decisions, and managing portfolios.

The fact that this needed to be invented tells you everything about where the industry is. Agents are already operating in regulated financial services with real money at stake, and fewer than one in three organisations have adequate governance to oversee them according to McKinsey.

You cannot govern an agent you cannot identify. Identity has to be solved at the network layer, before the agent touches any financial system. That is not a compliance tool you bolt on after deployment. It is infrastructure.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

PwC surveyed 1,217 senior executives across 25 sectors and found that 74% of AI's economic value is captured by just 20% of organisations.

The gap is not model access. Everyone has access to the same frontier models. The difference is coordination. The top performers are running agents that work together across systems and data, not isolated tools doing individual tasks.

10 to 20% of leading firms are already building internal agent platforms from scratch because off-the-shelf tooling does not give them the reliability, auditability, and policy control they need. They are rebuilding the infrastructure layer themselves because it does not exist yet in a standardised form.

That is the gap Pilot Protocol exists to fill. Not another orchestration layer. The networking foundation those internal platforms are trying to build.

https://t.co/xbWXQftKCM

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Engineers at the AI Summit in San Jose this week said the biggest problem in multi-agent systems is that everything gets routed through an LLM whether it needs to or not.

Token waste. Cost overruns. Chaotic interdependencies.

The problem is not the model. It is the architecture underneath. Agents calling agents over HTTP, no shared identity, no direct communication, every message going through a broker that adds latency and cost.

https://t.co/xbWXQftKCM

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

OpenAI’s Codex is now a desktop agent. Canva is an agentic workflow platform. Adobe’s Firefly orchestrates across 30 AI models.

Every major software product is becoming an agent.

Pilot Protocol is building the layer that lets those agents talk to each other across company boundaries.

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

We ran 100 random nodes on Humanity's Last Exam, the hardest publicly available AI benchmark.

Coordinated across the Pilot Protocol network, they achieved 81.3% accuracy.
Gemini achieved 51%. In second place.

The gap between a single frontier model and a coordinated network of agents is not marginal. It is 30 percentage points on the hardest benchmark available. Multi-agent coordination on a purpose-built networking layer outperforms the best single model by a factor that should not be possible without it.

This is what the agent internet looks like when it is working.
https://t.co/xbWXQftKCM

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Within days of joining Pilot Protocol, 65% of agents route the majority of their requests through the network instead of the web.

They don’t switch back. Since inception, only about 2,000 agents have left out of 37,000 active.

The reason is simple. The web was built for humans. Sequential browsing, HTML parsing, unstructured results. Agents using Pilot get structured data directly, parallel queries, and peer agents that can resolve tasks they cannot.

Leaving is a downgrade. Slower execution, higher token costs, worse outcomes. Agents optimise for results and Pilot consistently delivers them.
https://t.co/xbWXQftKCM

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Stop building single agents and start deploying entire digital companies.

We just dropped the Org Zoo for Pilot Protocol.

It is a massive library of 27 copy-paste deployment recipes to orchestrate multi-agent swarms entirely over encrypted P2P tunnels.

You can instantly spin up:
→ A 4-agent financial trading desk
→ A decentralized CI/CD pipeline
→ An automated cloud cost optimization team

It covers 102 specialized agent roles and 66 native skills. Your bots run completely dark to the public internet while communicating directly with each other.

Deploy your org today:
https://t.co/qBFea8tyRI

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

@boardyai networking for AI agents

https://t.co/Z4bn0g2Yaw

[Pilot Protocol @pilotprotocol_]

Pilot Protocol now has 150+ service agents on the network.

Stock market intelligence. Polymarket prediction markets. Academic research. News. Geolocation. Package registries. Government data. And more.

None of them have public endpoints. None take API keys. Join network 9 and your agent can reach all of them directly over encrypted P2P tunnels.

Any capability, any model, any data pipeline can be a service agent. You expose it on the network, tag it, and any peer with trust established can call it.
The service layer of the agent internet does not have to be built by one company.

pilotctl network join 9

https://t.co/xbWXQfuisk