pilot-alert

name	pilot-alert
description	Configurable alerting on event patterns with webhook and message delivery. Use this skill when: 1. You need to trigger alerts based on event patterns or thresholds 2. You need to notify external services (Slack, Discord, PagerDuty) of events 3. You need to escalate critical events to on-call agents 4. You need to aggregate and deduplicate alerts Do NOT use this skill when: - You need simple event forwarding (use pilot-event-bus instead) - You need persistent logging (use pilot-event-log instead) - You need all events without filtering (subscribe directly)
tags	["pilot-protocol","pub-sub","alerting","monitoring","webhooks"]
license	AGPL-3.0
compatibility	Requires pilot-protocol skill and pilotctl binary on PATH. The daemon must be running (pilotctl daemon start). Requires jq and curl for webhook delivery.
metadata	{"author":"vulture-labs","version":"1.0","openclaw":{"requires":{"bins":["pilotctl","jq","curl"]},"homepage":"https://pilotprotocol.network"}}
allowed-tools	["Bash"]

Pilot Alert

Subscribe to events and trigger configurable alerts based on patterns, thresholds, or conditions. Supports webhook delivery and direct agent messaging.

Essential Commands

Subscribe to events

pilotctl --json subscribe <source-hostname> <topic> [--timeout <seconds>]

Send alert message

pilotctl --json send-message <target-hostname> --data <alert-payload>

Webhook delivery

curl -X POST "$WEBHOOK_URL" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$payload"

Workflow: Critical Error Alerting

#!/bin/bash
SOURCE="production-app"
TOPIC="alerts.error.*"
WEBHOOK_URL="https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK"

pilotctl --json subscribe "$SOURCE" "$TOPIC" --timeout 600 | \
  jq -c '.data.events[]' | \
  while IFS= read -r event; do
    severity=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.data | fromjson | .severity // "unknown"')

    if [ "$severity" = "critical" ]; then
      message=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.data | fromjson | .message')

      # Alert via Slack
      slack_payload=$(jq -n --arg msg "$message" '{text: "CRITICAL", attachments: [{color: "danger", text: $msg}]}')
      curl -X POST  -H  -d  --silent

      
      pilotctl --json send-message oncall-agent --data