Market pulse

Answer "what's happening right now?" from AlphAI's feed. Three tools cover three 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_stories — the events of the last 48h that two or more publishers reported, each summarised from its articles (title, lead, importance, publisher count). The "big picture" with independent coverage behind it.
• alphai_trending — top single articles of the last 48h by relevance. Catches movers only one outlet has covered so far; 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_stories(list="top", limit=10). Each card is an event with two or more publishers behind it and a summary written from them; importance is the feed's 1–10 scale (7 and up), publishers says how broad the coverage is. For depth on one event call alphai_story(story_id): key facts with their sources, the per-ticker read, open questions. Then alphai_trending(limit=10) for single-outlet movers the stories list does not carry yet.
4. Optional focus. If the user named a sector or theme, search for it: alphai_news_search(query="<theme words>", min_relevance=7, collapse_stories=true). The query matches titles, named entities and summaries; read query_interpretation to see how it was understood. To pin it to companies, resolve them with alphai_tickers(q=...) and pass tickers=[...] as well.

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 stories from alphai_stories, each a one-liner with its publisher count; add a trending single-outlet item only when it is not already one of them (compare story_id).
• 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.