Orb
Advanced OSINT Intelligence. Real-time situational awareness across conflict zones, markets, military activity, and critical infrastructure — in a single dark-themed dashboard.
This is a fork. Orb is derived from koala73/worldmonitor
(World Monitor, © 2024-2026 Elie Habib), with substantial modifications. See
Attribution & License below for full details on what
changed and how this satisfies the AGPL-3.0 obligations of the upstream work.
Non-commercial Status
Orb is a non-commercial public-interest project operated by
Parallax AI. The hosted instance at
orb.parallax.kr is offered free of charge with no ads, no paywall, no
subscription tier, and no user data sold or monetized. There are no plans to
introduce commercial features in this codebase — it exists solely as a public
situational-awareness utility.
Roadmap — Parallax AI Analysis Integration
Future releases will progressively add proprietary analysis layers produced
by Parallax AI on top of the open OSINT base:
- AI-synthesized regional briefings and convergence reports
- Cross-source correlation signals (military / economic / disaster cascades)
- Country instability scoring with Parallax-specific risk models
- Forecast / scenario modeling with explainable confidence intervals
- Long-form intelligence summaries published as periodic data drops
These additions will ship under the same AGPL-3.0 license as the rest of the
project. The analysis content itself (datasets, scoring outputs, briefs) is
provided for research and public-interest use only; downstream commercial
redistribution requires written permission from Parallax AI.
What Orb Is
A single-purpose OSINT console focused on situational awareness:
- Real-time conflict tracking (ACLED, UCDP)
- Military ADS-B flight monitoring
- Maritime AIS ship tracking
- NASA FIRMS satellite fire detection
- Nuclear and critical infrastructure mapping
- Submarine cable and internet outage monitoring
- Country Instability Index (CII) scoring
- Stock market, commodity, and crypto tracking
- Earthquake and natural disaster alerts
- Cyber threat detection
5 dashboard variants (Global, Tech, Finance, Commodity, Energy) share one
codebase and one deployment. Tabs switch via localStorage — no per-variant
subdomain required.
What Orb Is Not
This fork strips the following from the upstream project so consumers know
exactly what to expect:
- ❌ No login / sign-up (no Clerk integration in the user-facing app)
- ❌ No payment / subscription / Pro tier (no Dodo Payments)
- ❌ No premium-gated panels (
deduction, regional-intelligence,
latest-brief, trade-policy, chat-analyst, market-implications,
stock-analysis, stock-backtest, daily-market-brief,
wsb-ticker-scanner — all removed from the panel registry)
- ❌ No multi-language support (English only)
- ❌ No light theme (always dark, matching the Orb visual identity)
- ❌ No "Resilience" or country-deep-dive resilience widget
- ❌ No notification routing, no API-key tab, no MCP-clients tab
If you need any of those, use the upstream
koala73/worldmonitor directly.
Quick Start
git clone https://github.com/parallax-ai-llc/orb.git
cd orb
npm install
npm run dev
Open http://localhost:3000. The app runs with no environment variables.
Some optional data sources need credentials (LLM keys for AI panels, etc.); see
.env.example for the full list.
Tech Stack
| Category | Technologies |
|---|
| Frontend | Vanilla TypeScript, Vite, globe.gl + Three.js, deck.gl + MapLibre GL |
| Build | Vite 6, TypeScript 5.7, Biome (lint + format) |
| Map tiles | Self-hosted PMTiles via R2 / OpenFreeMap fallback |
| Brand | Inter (body) + JetBrains Mono (chrome), cyan accent on dark navy |
Attribution & License
Orb is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
(LICENSE), inherited from the upstream project. AGPL-3.0 is a
copyleft license; if you run a modified version of Orb on a network, you must
make your source available to its users under the same terms.
Upstream
This work is a modified version of:
The upstream project's full copyright notice is preserved in LICENSE
alongside this fork's copyright. This combined notice satisfies AGPL §5(a-c).
Summary of Substantial Changes
Per AGPL §5(a) ("You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
stating that you changed the files and the date of any change"):
- Rebrand: World Monitor → Orb (logo, title, meta, version, theme tokens,
credits, social handles, domain →
orb.parallax.kr)
- Auth removed: Clerk SDK calls neutralized, sign-in/sign-up UI removed,
auth-gated tabs deleted from settings
- Pro tier removed: Dodo Payments orchestration neutralized, all
premium-locked panels deleted from the panel registry and createPanel /
lazyPanel / dynamic-import paths
- Visual reskin: Parallax visual system overlay (amber → cyan accent,
Inter + JetBrains Mono, sharper borders, mono panel headers, PXM color
tokens override the upstream
--surface/--border/--text system)
- Layout: header pills / footer / classification banners / layers rail
/ map-bottom-grid / map-resize-handle removed; theater tabs replace the
variant switcher and wire to variant navigation
- Locale: forced English; multi-language detector disabled
- Theme: forced dark; light / auto preference paths removed
- Settings: Notifications / API Keys / MCP Clients tabs removed
- Map:
resilienceScore layer removed across all variants; per-variant
defaults trimmed to a focused 4-layer set
This list is not exhaustive — git log against the initial fork commit
(91e9b37) for the complete diff history.
Your Obligations Under AGPL-3.0
If you fork, modify, or run Orb on a network, you must:
- Preserve this README's Attribution section and the LICENSE
file (including the upstream World Monitor copyright).
- Disclose your modifications publicly under AGPL-3.0.
- Make source available to users who interact with your instance over a
network (including SaaS deployments).
- Mark your changes prominently — add your own changes section above this
line; do not delete prior entries.
Failure to comply may terminate your rights under §8 of the AGPL.
Trademarks & Branding
- "Orb" and the Orb logo are used by this fork. They are not covered by the
AGPL-3.0 license grant; trademark rights are reserved by Parallax. Forks of
this codebase may freely use the source under AGPL-3.0 but must remove or
replace the Orb brand assets.
- "World Monitor" is a trademark of its respective owner; this fork does not
claim any rights to that mark.
Contributing
Bug reports and PRs are welcome via the GitHub issue tracker. By contributing,
you agree your contributions are licensed under AGPL-3.0.
Acknowledgments
Orb stands on the work of the upstream
World Monitor project. Thanks to
Elie Habib and the World Monitor contributors for releasing the original
codebase under AGPL-3.0, which made this fork possible.
