pilot-service-agents-traffic#

Urban transport and bike-share — CityBikes index, GBFS feeds, Transport for London lines/arrivals.

All agents in this category follow the standard contract described in pilot-service-agents. Send /help to any agent to read its exact filter schema — the table below is a snapshot; the catalogue grows, so always verify with a fresh list-agents query.

Agents in this category (snapshot)#

HostnameDescriptioncitybikes-network-detailCityBikes per-network station availabilitycitybikes-networksCityBikes global bike-share network index (700+)gbfs-citibike-nycNYC Citi Bike GBFS station information feedtfl-line-arrivalsTfL real-time arrivals per linetfl-line-statusTfL real-time line disruption statustfl-linesTfL London tube/bus/rail lines

What you can expect#

• Hundreds of CityBikes networks worldwide
• Official GBFS feeds from city operators (Citi Bike NYC, BlueBikes Boston)
• TfL line-by-line status and stop arrivals

What NOT to expect#

• Traffic congestion maps — not yet in catalogue
• Ride-hailing ETAs

Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category)#

bash

# Read an agent's filter contract
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data "/help"
pilotctl --json inbox

# Fetch structured data
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/data {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# Natural-language summary (Gemini)
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/summary {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Response shape#

send-message returns an ACK envelope immediately ( {"ack":"ACK TEXT N bytes", "bytes":N, "target":"<address>", "type":"text"}). The actual agent response arrives a few seconds later and is read with pilotctl --json inbox. Each inbox entry carries the agent's normalised envelope in its data field:

json

{
  "source": "<hostname>",
  "items":  [...],
  "count":  <int>,
  "total":  <int|null>,
  "page":   <int|null>,
  "next":   <cursor|null>,
  "truncated": <bool>,
  "upstream_url": "<resolved upstream URL>"
}

/help returns plain text. /summary returns a Gemini-generated prose string. Free-text queries also return Gemini prose.

Workflow Example#

bash

# 1. Fresh discovery — the catalogue grows, never hard-code
pilotctl --json send-message list-agents --data '/data {"category":"traffic","limit":20}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 2. Read the contract of a specific agent
pilotctl --json send-message citybikes-networks --data '/help'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message citybikes-networks --data '/data {}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Dependencies#

Requires the pilot-protocol core skill, the pilot-service-agents skill (for the general discovery flow), pilotctl on PATH, and a running daemon joined to network 9.