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name: market-pulse description: Summarize what's moving in the market right now using the AlphaAI MCP. Use when the user asks "what's moving?", "what's the big story today?", "anything breaking?", "market pulse", or wants a fast read on the current tape rather than one specific ticker.

Market pulse

Answer "what's happening right now?" from AlphaAI's feed. Two tools cover two different questions — pick the right one:

• alphai_actionable_now — breaking, decision-grade news from the last few hours. The gate is strict: by default only actionability='high' (something to act on TODAY — guidance cut, halted trading, breaking M&A, surprise print).
• alphai_trending — top stories of the last 48h by relevance. The "big picture", not necessarily urgent.

Steps

1. Start narrow, with alphai_actionable_now() (defaults: last 6h, high-actionability). This is the real "is anything breaking" signal.
2. Read an empty result correctly. Outside major market hours (nights, weekends — crypto trades 24/7, but high-actionability prints still cluster in US/European/Asian sessions) an empty list is expected — it means no high-actionability prints in the window, not that the tool failed. Before concluding "nothing happened", widen once: alphai_actionable_now(hours=24, min_actionability='medium').
3. Add the backdrop with alphai_trending(limit=10). Use this for the "bigger stories shaping the week" layer even when nothing is breaking.
4. Optional focus. If the user named a sector or theme, resolve it to tickers (alphai_tickers(q=...) or your own knowledge), then alphai_news_search(tickers=[...], min_relevance=7) — there is no free-text news search; match themes client-side on the returned titles/summaries.

Output

• Breaking now — the high-actionability items, if any. Each: headline · ticker(s) · one clause on the decision it forces. If none, say so in one line and note the window you checked.
• Big picture — 3–5 trending stories by relevance, each a one-liner.
• So what — one or two sentences tying it together (risk-on/off, a sector in focus, an event everyone's positioning around).

Guardrails

• Don't conflate "trending" with "actionable". A story can dominate the tape (trending) without being something to act on today (actionable). Label which layer each item came from if it matters.
• Report relevance / actionability honestly; don't upgrade a medium item to "breaking".
• News, not advice — no trade calls.