Questions
- What does Pressure measure?
- Pressure summarizes conditions across the global macro field each day, on a five-word scale: expansion, loosening, neutral, tightening, compression. One reading per UTC day. It describes conditions, nothing else.
- Are these predictions?
- No. They are measurements. Nothing here forecasts anything or recommends any action.
- Why is the raw score not published?
- The five-word reading is the product. The underlying score and the method that computes it stay inside the instrument; publishing them would let the measurement be reconstructed. What is published: each day's reading and its date, the last five days on this site, and thirty days of history on Pressure Atlas Pro.
- How does an AI agent connect?
- Add the MCP endpoint as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT (OAuth), or create an API key for IDEs, scripts, and agents. Every client sees all seven tools; the docs page has the exact steps.
- Can I read it without MCP?
- Yes. The REST v1 API serves the same data with an API key (curl, scripts, jobs), and a public RSS feed carries the last five daily readings with no account at all.
- How fresh is the data?
- Pressure is daily. Today's reading is partial until the UTC day closes;
get_latest_pressuremarks the latest closed day. - What does the free plan include?
- The latest reading, 200 tool calls a day, and full visibility of the catalog. The Pressure Atlas Pro plan adds the most recent 30 days, CSV export, and 10,000 calls a day.
- Why five levels?
- Five levels are the published granularity, designed to be read at a glance. The underlying score stays inside the instrument.
- Can I put it on a wall display?
- Yes. Open the home page with ?display=1 for a chrome-free view: the fabric, today's reading, and the recent log. It refreshes itself and keeps the screen awake; the Display button in the header does the same thing with browser fullscreen.
- Which clients work?
- Any MCP client: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and agent frameworks that speak MCP over streamable HTTP.