World Monitor — Agent Guide

How AI agents should work with worldmonitor.app: machine surfaces, authentication, crawl policy, rate limits, and discovery endpoints. Prefer the structured surfaces below over scraping the HTML dashboard — the dashboard is a WebGL SPA and yields nothing useful to a text parser.

World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard: 500+ news feeds, 56 map layer types, 109 concrete panel implementations, country risk/resilience scores, AI briefs, forecasts, and market/supply-chain correlation, served as machine-readable JSON with documented methodology and provenance.

Machine surfaces (use these)

• MCP server (recommended): https://worldmonitor.app/mcp — Streamable HTTP, 63 tools; issue tools/list for the live inventory. Server card: https://worldmonitor.app/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
• Docs MCP server: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/mcp — Streamable HTTP, public (no auth); search-and-retrieval tools over the documentation. Use it for "how do I…" questions; use the product MCP above for live data.
• REST API: base https://api.worldmonitor.app — OpenAPI spec: https://worldmonitor.app/openapi.yaml (JSON: /openapi.json) · API catalog: https://worldmonitor.app/.well-known/api-catalog
• NLWeb: POST https://www.worldmonitor.app/ask (supports SSE) for natural-language questions; machine-readable dashboard view at https://www.worldmonitor.app/?mode=agent
• Agent Skills: discovery index at https://worldmonitor.app/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json · install via npx skills add koala73/worldmonitor (https://skills.sh/koala73/worldmonitor)
• CLI: npx worldmonitor tools lists every tool (public, no key) — https://www.npmjs.com/package/worldmonitor
• SDKs: Python pip install worldmonitor-sdk · Ruby gem install worldmonitor · Go go get github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/sdk/go · JavaScript npm worldmonitor — guide: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/sdks
• Sandbox / test environment: https://www.worldmonitor.app/sandbox/index.json — deterministic, schema-valid sample responses for representative REST operations; no auth, no quota, safe for CI. Guide: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/sandbox
• LLM briefings: https://worldmonitor.app/llms.txt (overview) · https://worldmonitor.app/llms-full.txt (full reference) · section files: https://worldmonitor.app/api/llms.txt (API) · https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/llms.txt (docs) · https://worldmonitor.app/developers/llms.txt (developer portal) · https://www.worldmonitor.app/blog/llms.txt (blog)
• Schema map: https://www.worldmonitor.app/schemamap.xml — NLWeb schemamap indexing the structured-data surfaces
• Research reports: https://www.worldmonitor.app/research/ — original source-backed research with downloadable CSV/JSON data, per-figure provenance, and stable citation URLs (no auth, no JavaScript required)
• Developer portal: https://worldmonitor.app/developers.md — links every developer resource by name. Named resource pages: MCP Server · OpenAPI Specification · SDKs

Authentication

• Anonymous works for discovery endpoints, tools/list, and public data (world brief, product catalog, story pages).
• API key: header X-WorldMonitor-Key: wm_<40-hex> for REST and MCP data calls — issue one at https://worldmonitor.app/pro. Full agent walkthrough: https://worldmonitor.app/auth.md
• OAuth2 for MCP (scope=mcp), with dynamic client registration at /oauth/register. Details in auth.md.

Crawl & content-usage policy

• robots.txt (https://www.worldmonitor.app/robots.txt): AI search/assistant agents (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User) are explicitly allowed; bulk training-only scrapers (CCBot, Bytespider, anthropic-ai) are disallowed. /api/ is off-limits to crawlers except the allowlisted story/OG/llms.txt/product-catalog routes.
• Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes — declared as a robots.txt group directive and as an origin-wide HTTP response header. Search indexing and assistant grounding/citation are welcome; bulk model training is opted out.
• User-Agent: always send a descriptive User-Agent (e.g. mytool/1.0 (+https://yoursite.example)). Default HTTP-library UAs (curl/*, python-requests/*, empty strings) may get a 403 from the edge firewall — a 403 does NOT mean the endpoint is missing; retry with a real UA.

Rate limits & plans

• Machine-readable pricing and plan limits: https://worldmonitor.app/pricing.md · live JSON catalog: GET https://www.worldmonitor.app/api/product-catalog (public, no key)
• Rate-limit documentation: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/usage-rate-limits.md · auth matrix: https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/usage-auth
• Plan-limit responses include upgrade guidance; back off on 429 and honor Retry-After.

Support & escalation

• https://worldmonitor.app/support.md — [email protected] (general) · [email protected] (sales)
• Status: https://status.worldmonitor.app · Issues: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/issues
• Source (AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor