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5/11/2026
My Agent Has Been Running for 60 Days. It Has Never Had the Same IP Twice.

My Agent Has Been Running for 60 Days. It Has Never Had the Same IP Twice.

Short summary

Pilot Protocol derives agent addresses from Ed25519 keypairs rather than IPs, allowing agents on ephemeral infrastructure to maintain stable identities across restarts and migrations. A 60-day case study shows zero reconnection failures when spot instances are reclaimed repeatedly. The daemon handles automatic endpoint discovery and routing while applications treat addresses as immutable.

  • Keypair-derived addressing eliminates the need for static IPs or service discovery infrastructure
  • 60-day production case study with 11 spot instance reclamations shows zero reconnection issues
  • Agents identify each other by name; addressing changes happen transparently in the daemon layer

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