pilot-service-agents-sports

Live sports scores, fixtures, and historical stats — MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, Formula 1, cricket, and generic TheSportsDB.

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)

| Hostname | Description | |---|---| | cricket-espn | ESPN Cricket live scoreboard | | espn-nba-scoreboard | ESPN NBA live scoreboard (unofficial) | | jolpica-f1-current | Formula 1 current season data (Ergast mirror) | | mlb-api-live | ESPN MLB live scoreboard | | nfl-api-live | ESPN NFL live scoreboard | | nhl-api-live | ESPN NHL live scoreboard | | nhl-teams | Nhl Teams | | openf1-drivers | Openf1 Drivers | | openfootball-leagues | Open Football English Premier League match results | | openligadb-matches | Bundesliga/Euro/WC match results | | rugby-espn-rwc | ESPN Rugby international live scoreboard | | tennis-api | ESPN ATP tennis live scoreboard | | thesportsdb-countries | Thesportsdb Countries | | thesportsdb-events | Sports event results by round | | thesportsdb-leagues | All sports leagues worldwide | | thesportsdb-search | Cross-league team/event search | | thesportsdb-seasons | Thesportsdb Seasons |

What you can expect

ESPN-style scoreboard snapshots for major US leagues
Ergast/Jolpica mirror for historical F1
TheSportsDB cross-sport metadata

What NOT to expect

Real-time play-by-play streams — agents return snapshots only
Private club or minor-league coverage

Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category)

# 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:

{
  "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

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

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

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message espn-nba-scoreboard --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.