World Monitor
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Real-time global intelligence dashboard — AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface.
Ways to Use It
The terminal dashboard runs the same live data in your shell: world map, news, markets, conflict, military flights, cyber, climate, prediction markets and live TV, with mouse support and colour themes. No API key needed.
What It Does
- Curated news feeds across global and regional categories, AI-synthesized into briefs
- Dual map engine — 3D globe (globe.gl) and WebGL flat map (deck.gl) with a shared map-layer catalog
- Panel inventory — concrete panel implementations across specialized variants
- Cross-stream correlation — military, economic, disaster, and escalation signal convergence
- Country Instability Index (CII) — live CII v14 scores, bands, and approximate 24-hour movement for 31 Tier-1 countries
- Finance radar — stock exchanges, commodities, crypto, and a market composite
- Local AI — run everything with Ollama, no API keys required
- Site variants from a single codebase (world, tech, finance, commodity, happy, energy)
- Native desktop app (Tauri 2) for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Multilingual UI with native-language feeds and RTL support
For the full feature list, architecture, data sources, and algorithms, see the documentation.
Support Status
All site variants and desktop binaries are built from a single codebase and ship from the same release process. The table below clarifies maintenance status so you know which surfaces are safe to depend on.
| Surface | Status | Notes |
|---|
worldmonitor.app, tech., finance., commodity., happy., energy. | Stable | Public deployments built from this repo, actively maintained |
| Desktop binaries (Windows / macOS Apple Silicon / macOS Intel / Linux AppImage) | Stable | One Tauri binary for every variant — install World Monitor and switch to tech, finance, commodity, energy, or happy in-app. There is deliberately no per-variant download |
worldmonitor npm package (terminal dashboard and CLI) | Stable | Published from cli/ on every cli-v* tag |
Issues filed against any of the above are triaged from the same backlog — see the issues board for currently-open work.
Quick Start
Requires Node.js 24, the version pinned in .nvmrc. Distribution packages are often older. Debian 12 and Raspberry Pi OS ship Node.js 18 with npm 9.2.0, where npm install stops with Invalid comparator: file:vendor/braces. Install Node.js 24 with nvm (nvm install inside the checkout reads .nvmrc) or from nodejs.org.
git clone https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor.git
cd worldmonitor
npm install
npm run dev
Open localhost:3000 (override the port with DEV_PORT in .env.local). The app runs with no environment variables.
Feature-specific data sources may require credentials. See .env.example for the full list.
For variant-specific development:
npm run dev:tech # tech.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:finance # finance.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:commodity # commodity.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:happy # happy.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:energy # energy.worldmonitor.app
See the self-hosting guide for deployment options (Vercel, Docker, static).
Tech Stack
| Category | Technologies |
|---|
| Frontend | Vanilla TypeScript, Vite, globe.gl + Three.js, deck.gl + MapLibre GL |
| Desktop | Tauri 2 (Rust) with Node.js sidecar |
| AI/ML | Ollama / OpenRouter, Transformers.js (browser-side) |
| API Contracts | Protocol Buffers and sebuf HTTP annotations |
| Deployment | Vercel Edge Functions, Railway relay, Tauri, PWA |
| Caching | Redis (Upstash), 3-tier cache, CDN, service worker |
Full stack details in the architecture docs.
Programmatic Access
World Monitor is built for agents and scripts as well as browsers:
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MCP server — https://worldmonitor.app/mcp (Streamable HTTP). Public tools/list; tools/call authenticates with a X-WorldMonitor-Key header or OAuth.
The server also publishes its Agent Skills through the draft io.modelcontextprotocol/skills extension (skills/list, skills/get, and skill://… resource reads).
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REST API — base https://api.worldmonitor.app, described by the OpenAPI spec.
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CLI — the official worldmonitor npm package (source in cli/). Run it with no arguments in a terminal for the terminal dashboard:
npx worldmonitor tools # run ad-hoc — list every MCP tool (no key needed)
npm install -g worldmonitor # or install the `worldmonitor` (alias `wm`) command
brew install worldmonitor # or install it with Homebrew
worldmonitor risk IR --api-key wm_xxx
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SDKs — official zero-dependency client libraries mirroring the CLI: Python worldmonitor-sdk (source in sdk/python/), Ruby worldmonitor (sdk/ruby/), Go github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/sdk/go (). Guide: .
Agent discovery files: llms.txt · agent-skills manifest · api-catalog. Get an API key at worldmonitor.app/pro.
Flight Data
Flight data provided graciously by Wingbits, the most advanced ADS-B flight data solution.
Data Sources
WorldMonitor aggregates attributed upstream sources across geopolitics, finance, energy, climate, aviation, cyber, military, infrastructure, and news intelligence. Curated feeds and freshness-tracked source groups are published in the full data sources catalog, with provider, feed-tier, license-posture, and collection-method details.
Contributing
Contributions welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
npm run typecheck # Type checking
npm run build:full # Production build
License
AGPL-3.0-only for the source code. Commercial use is permitted under the AGPL when you comply with its copyleft and source-availability terms.
| Use Case | Allowed? |
|---|
| Personal / research / educational | Yes, under AGPL-3.0-only |
| Self-hosted instance | Yes, under AGPL-3.0-only |
| Fork and modify | Yes, share source under AGPL-3.0-only when required |
| Commercial use / SaaS | Yes, under AGPL-3.0-only when you comply with AGPL obligations |
| Private-source proprietary use or official branding rights | Separate commercial or trademark permission needed |
See LICENSE for the full code license and docs/license.mdx for a plain-language summary. Commercial licensing is available as an alternative option for teams that need non-AGPL terms.
Copyright (C) 2024-2026 Elie Habib. All rights reserved.
Author
Elie Habib — GitHub
Contributors
Security Acknowledgments
We thank the following researchers for responsibly disclosing security issues:
- Cody Richard — Disclosed three security findings covering IPC command exposure, renderer-to-sidecar trust boundary analysis, and fetch patch credential injection architecture (2026)
See our Security Policy for responsible disclosure guidelines.
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