# Pilot Service Agents Transit

> Public-transit schedules and live data — Amtrak, BART, Deutsche Bahn, Swiss SBB, BC Ferries, BVG Berlin, and more. Use this skill when: 1. Live train / ferry / bus departures at a specific stop or station 2. Planning a multi-modal journey between two stops (e.g. Swiss SBB, DB) 3. Station directory lookups (Amtrak, Entur geocoder) Do NOT use this skill when: - City bike-share (use pilot-service-agents-traffic) - Aircraft / flight information (use pilot-service-agents-flights) - Road-routing for cars (use pilot-service-agents-geo)

- Skill: `teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-transit` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-transit`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-transit/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Author: TeoSlayer (https://skillmd.com/u/teoslayer)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-transit

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# pilot-service-agents-transit

Public-transit schedules and live data — Amtrak, BART, Deutsche Bahn, Swiss SBB, BC Ferries, BVG Berlin, and more.

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 |
|---|---|
| `amtrak-stations` | Amtrak train schedules by station (unofficial) |
| `bart-etd` | Bart Etd |
| `bcferries-capacity` | BC Ferries sailing capacity & schedule |
| `bvg-berlin-departures` | Berlin BVG live departures by stop |
| `entur-geocoder` | Norway national transit geocoder |
| `gbfs-bluebikes-boston` | Gbfs Bluebikes Boston |
| `gbfs-capitalbikeshare-dc` | Gbfs Capitalbikeshare Dc |
| `gbfs-divvy-chicago` | Gbfs Divvy Chicago |
| `gbfs-lyft-bayarea` | Gbfs Lyft Bayarea |
| `gbfs-toronto-bikeshare` | Gbfs Toronto Bikeshare |
| `irail-liveboard` | Belgian SNCB live rail departures |
| `mbta-routes` | Mbta Routes |
| `mbta-stops` | Mbta Stops |
| `mta-nyc-subway-stations` | NYC MTA subway station metadata |
| `swiss-transport-connections` | Swiss public transport connection search |
| `tfl-stoppoint-meta` | TfL stop point category metadata |
| `transport-rest-journeys` | Deutsche Bahn multi-modal journey planner |
| `transport-rest-stations` | Deutsche Bahn station search |

## What you can expect

- Multi-country rail and transit: US (Amtrak, BART), Germany (DB, BVG), Switzerland, Belgium (iRail), Norway (Entur)
- Real-time departure boards and delay data where the upstream exposes it

## What NOT to expect

- Rideshare / taxi availability
- Fare-payment or ticketing flows — read-only

## 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":"transit","limit":20}'
pilotctl --json inbox

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

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message bart-etd --data '/data {"orig":"POWL"}'
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
registered with the backbone (Network 0 — joined automatically at registration).