pilot-event-replay - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: pilot-event-replay description: > Record and replay event streams for debugging, testing, and audit purposes.

Use this skill when:

You need to capture event streams for later analysis
You need to replay events to test downstream consumers
You need to debug event-driven workflows
You need to audit event history with timestamps

Do NOT use this skill when:

You need real-time event forwarding (use pilot-event-bus instead)
You need long-term storage with rotation (use pilot-event-log instead)
You need filtering before recording (use pilot-event-filter first) tags:
pilot-protocol
pub-sub
debugging
testing
replay license: AGPL-3.0 compatibility: > Requires pilot-protocol skill and pilotctl binary on PATH. The daemon must be running (pilotctl daemon start). Requires jq for JSON processing. metadata: author: vulture-labs version: "1.0" openclaw: requires: bins: - pilotctl - jq homepage: https://pilotprotocol.network allowed-tools:
Bash

Pilot Event Replay

Record event streams to NDJSON files and replay them for debugging and testing.

Commands

Record events to file

pilotctl --json subscribe <source-hostname> <topic> --timeout <seconds> | \
  jq -c '.data.events[]' >> <recording-file.ndjson>

Replay events from file

cat <recording-file.ndjson> | jq -c '.' | while IFS= read -r event; do
  topic=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.topic')
  data=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.data')

  pilotctl --json publish <target-hostname> "$topic" --data "$data"
  sleep <delay-seconds>
done

Workflow Example

Record debug session:

#!/bin/bash
SOURCE="buggy-worker"
DURATION=300
RECORDING="/tmp/debug-session-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).ndjson"

pilotctl --json subscribe "$SOURCE" "*" --timeout "$DURATION" | \
  jq -c '.data.events[]' >> "$RECORDING"

event_count=$(wc -l < "$RECORDING")
echo "Recorded $event_count events"

Replay to test agent:

#!/bin/bash
RECORDING="$1"
TEST_TARGET="test-agent"

jq -c '.' "$RECORDING" | while IFS= read -r event; do
  topic=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.topic')
  data=$(echo "$event" | jq -r '.data')

  pilotctl --json publish "$TEST_TARGET" "$topic" --data "$data"
  sleep 0.5
done

Dependencies

Requires pilot-protocol skill, jq, and a running daemon.