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Bluesky and Tiled together provide an ideal platform for AI agents to interact with user facility data. Bluesky captures the context around measurements and the relationships between data streams in an experiment. Tiled empowers scientists and their agents to search all that context and selectively access data of interest---whether the data came from Bluesky or another system. When an LLM is given access to Tiled, it has been shown to support text-based inquiries about the data.
Tiled is more than a data catalog: it enables clients to remotely slice into data and optionally transcode the format into one suitable for the application. Streaming capabilities, added within the last year, can push data to interested subscribers before it touches disk. Tiled also recently added the ability to send notifications, which can be used to launch workflows or synchronize updates with external systems.
Agents can utilize Tiled's features fluently because Tiled uses web APIs that are well represented in the models' training data (OpenAPI REST, WebSockets, Web Hooks). Tiled's security and access control features, which have been externally vetted, make it possible to grant agents access that is appropriately sandboxed with fine-grained permissions.
Bluesky and Tiled are open source projects governed by an international, multi-facility collaboration. Tiled alone has 60 code contributors representing over a dozen institutions.
