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Live geopolitical and markets intelligence wire: 35k+ wire items, event threads, 55k+ articles.
What it can do
What data it sees
Do you need an account
An API key from the service settings is required
Live geopolitical and markets intelligence wire: 35k+ wire items, event threads, 55k+ articles.
How to connect
How to connect terminal to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://terminal.themonexus.com/mcp
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect terminal to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://terminal.themonexus.com/mcp
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect terminal to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://terminal.themonexus.com/mcp
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (27)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| search_wire | Latest Monexus Terminal wire items (paid, $0.001/req or pass). Args: category: optional beat filter, e.g. geopolitics, business, tech, crypto, sports, science. query: optional full-text search string. limit: max items to return (1-100). |
| list_threads | Live event threads: wire items clustered into developing stories (paid, $0.002/req or pass). |
| get_thread | One event thread with all of its wire items (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: thread_id: the thread id, as returned by list_threads or search_wire. |
| get_context | Full context brief for a thread: background, timeline and significance (paid, $0.005/req or pass). Args: item_id: the thread/item id to build the context brief for. |
| list_articles | Index of 55,000+ licensed Monexus articles (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: category: optional category filter. limit: max articles to return. before: pagination cursor, return articles published before this timestamp/id. |
| get_article | One full licensed Monexus article as markdown plus metadata (paid, $0.01/req or pass). Args: slug: the article slug from list_articles. |
| deals | Live in-date SADC deals from the PriceMate catalogue corpus (paid, $0.003/req or pass). Real retail prices across Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa: microwaves, phones, appliances, groceries. Prices in local currency per retailer. Args: category: optional category filter (e.g. Electronics, Groceries, Appliances). limit: max deals to return (1-100). |
| deals_search | Search in-date SADC products by name or brand (paid, $0.005/req or pass). Args: q: search term, at least 2 characters (e.g. "airfryer", "iPhone 15", "OMO"). limit: max results (1-50). |
| deals_hot | Biggest absolute price drops among in-date SADC products (paid, $0.001/req or pass). Returns products where the retailer listed an old price, sorted by savings. |
| catalogues | In-date retailer catalogues from the PriceMate corpus (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: limit: max catalogues to return (1-50). |
| transcripts_search | Search 368 episodes of a business/finance podcast corpus (paid, $0.002/req or pass). FTS-ranked segments with episode id, date and start time. Ideal for research agents that need quoted, dated business-news material. Args: q: search term, at least 3 characters (e.g. "stablecoin", "agentic payments"). limit: max results (1-20). |
| transcripts_context | Windowed context around a transcript segment (paid, $0.005/req or pass). Args: episode: episode id from transcripts_search. start: segment start time in seconds. |
| transcripts_episode | One podcast episode: metadata, segment count, opening (paid, $0.01/req or pass). Args: episode: episode id from transcripts_search. |
| transcripts_sentiment | Lexicon sentiment over top matching segments (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: q: search term. limit: max segments scored (1-20). |
| funding | Funding/IPO events mined from the podcast corpus (paid, $0.005/req or pass). Args: limit: max events (1-50). |
| funding_latest | The single most recent funding/IPO event (paid, $0.002/req or pass). |
| funding_search | Funding events by company name (paid, $0.003/req or pass). Args: company: company name fragment (e.g. "SpaceX", "Ambrook"). limit: max events (1-20). |
| agentpay | Agentic-payments ecosystem brief: x402/MPP/USDC events with episode citations (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: limit: max events (1-50). |
| agentpay_latest | The single most recent agentic-payments event (paid, $0.001/req or pass). |
| capex | AI-capex / model-economy metrics: raises, cloud growth, memory prices, token costs (paid, $0.002/req or pass). Args: metric: optional metric family filter (e.g. "cloud_growth", "memory_price", "capital_raise"). limit: max metrics (1-50). |
| capex_summary | Metric families present in the capex tracker (paid, $0.001/req or pass). |
| verticals | Agent-commerce & messy-middle vertical intel: Shopify GMV, Ambrook, super.com datapoints (paid, $0.01/req or pass). Args: limit: max datapoints (1-50). |
| verticals_latest | The single most recent vertical-intel datapoint (paid, $0.002/req or pass). |
| modelwatch | Model-card watch: launches, silent downgrades, safeguards, policy events by lab (paid, $0.005/req or pass). Args: limit: max events (1-50). |
| modelwatch_latest | The most recent model-economy event (paid, $0.002/req or pass). |
| modelwatch_search | Model-watch events by lab name (paid, $0.003/req or pass). Args: lab: lab name fragment (e.g. "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Meta"). limit: max events (1-20). |
| list_categories | Beat/category scoreboard with item counts and latest timestamps (free, no key needed). |