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title: "WM Analyst"
description: "Conversational AI analyst that answers ad-hoc questions on geopolitics, markets, military, and forecasts using World Monitor's live cache layer."
---

The **WM Analyst** panel (internal id `chat-analyst`) is the dashboard's conversational-intelligence surface: a chat interface you can drop a question into — "what's happening in the Red Sea today?", "which economies are most exposed to a Hormuz closure?" — and get a source-aware, structured answer grounded in the live WorldMonitor caches.

## What the panel shows

A chat transcript with a composer at the bottom. Messages are rendered with Markdown → HTML pipeline (`marked` + `DOMPurify` sanitisation + post-processed analyst formatting). History is bounded to the last 20 turns (`MAX_HISTORY = 20` in `src/components/ChatAnalystPanel.ts`).

Panel-level controls:

- **Quick action buttons** at the top of the panel — `Situation` (world brief), `Markets`, `Conflicts`, `Forecasts`, `Risk`. Clicking runs a pre-built query.
- **Domain selector** — `All` / `Geo` / `Market` / `Military` (+ more). Scopes which caches the analyst draws from.
- **Dashboard control** — an opt-in `Control dashboard` toggle with a `Pause` control. When enabled, schema-validated Analyst action events can focus an already-live panel, move the map view, or toggle permitted map layers. When off or paused, the answer still streams but dashboard actions are skipped.
- **Composer** — free-form text input; Enter to send.

Panel id is `chat-analyst`; canonical component is `src/components/ChatAnalystPanel.ts`. Title "WM Analyst" per `src/config/panels.ts:52`.

## How you reach it

- **Cmd+K**: type *analyst* or *ask*.
- **Availability by variant**: registered and enabled by default in the **full/geopolitical** variant only (`premium: 'locked'` at `src/config/panels.ts:52`). Not present in the tech, finance, commodity, or happy variants.

## Data sources

The panel POSTs to `/api/chat-analyst` (edge function backed by `api/chat-analyst.ts`) via `premiumFetch()`, which injects the caller's credentials (`WORLDMONITOR_API_KEY` on desktop, Clerk bearer + PRO in the browser). The edge function composes context from the intelligence, conflict, markets, forecasts, and risk caches (scoped to the selected domain), streams tokens back, and the panel renders incrementally.

No separate `/chat-analyst/v1/*` RPC surface — this is a first-class edge endpoint, not a proto-generated RPC.

## Dashboard control actions

Dashboard control v1 is in-app and in-process only. `/api/chat-analyst` may stream validated action events alongside the answer, and `src/app/agent-bus-applier.ts` is the only client write boundary that mutates panels or the map. The applier enforces entitlement checks, live panel existence, map availability, variant-allowed layers, renderer executability, and premium layer gating before applying any action.

External MCP write tools, Convex action queues, and cross-user command delivery are not exposed in this version.

## Refresh cadence

Each send is a fresh LLM call — no caching of analyst answers. Typical response latency is 3-15s depending on question complexity and upstream cache freshness.

## Tier & gating

**PRO (hard-locked).** `premium: 'locked'` in `src/config/panels.ts:52`. `isPanelEntitled` unlocks it when **either** a valid `WORLDMONITOR_API_KEY` is present **or** `isPro` is true (`src/config/panels.ts:973` — `apiKeyPanels` allowlist includes `chat-analyst`).

## API reference

- [AI Intelligence](/ai-intelligence) — overview of the LLM-backed analyst pipeline.
- For scripted use, the closest MCP equivalents are [`analyze_situation`](/mcp-overview#ai-intelligence-live-llm) and [`get_world_brief`](/mcp-overview#ai-intelligence-live-llm).
