# Watchtower simple learning guide Revision: watchtower-learning-20261020-v1 · reviewed 2026-10-20 14 starter lessons, 48 capability modules, 77 navigation tabs. [Interactive guide](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple). ## Find your way around **Goal:** Choose a useful starting view and find a tool without getting lost. - Recognise the three application modes - Find a workspace through Commands - Return to this guide whenever you need it 1. **Locate the mode buttons.** Find Brief, Monitor and Investigate in the side or bottom navigation. Read their labels before changing views. 2. **Find a tool by its name.** Open Commands and search for Countries, Weather or Credit. A hidden or restricted tool may need your normal workspace settings or account access. 3. **Choose a short starting page.** Open Pro Brief and identify one item you want to understand. You do not need to understand every panel at once. **Example:** If your question is about a company’s debt, start with Global Bonds → Ratings & CDS rather than browsing every map. Watchtower brings many research tools together. Start with one question. Brief gives a short overview, Monitor helps you watch a situation, and Investigate opens the detailed workspaces. Simple and Extended are levels of this guide, not different subscriptions. ### Check your understanding What do Simple and Extended change? A. The amount of explanation in this guide B. Your subscription or account permissions C. The underlying risk scores **Answer A:** They change learning depth. Application modes and account access remain separate controls. ## Read a data card with confidence **Goal:** Identify what a number means, when it was observed, and what is missing. - Separate observation and retrieval dates - Distinguish zero from unknown - Open source evidence before interpreting a score 1. **Try the source-card example.** Use the Evidence states practice card. Switch between observed zero, missing and stale to see why they mean different things. Teaching example: evidence. 2. **Inspect a selected item.** Select a card in the application, then use Evidence or its source/details control. Read the unit and original date. 3. **Write one careful sentence.** Describe what the source reports and its period. Add what you cannot establish from that record. **Example:** ‘Retrieved today; observation from 2024’ describes old evidence retrieved recently. It is not a new measurement. Before using a figure, ask four questions: what is measured, in what unit, for which place or entity, and at what time? The time Watchtower retrieved it can be much newer than the original observation. ### Check your understanding A field is blank because its source is unavailable. What should you conclude? A. The value is zero B. The value is unknown C. The risk is low **Answer B:** Missing coverage cannot establish a zero value, a safe place or a low-risk outcome. ## Build a five-minute daily routine **Goal:** Turn a large dashboard into a small, useful review list. - Find a useful briefing - Check upcoming events - Choose two items for deeper research 1. **Read the overview.** Open Pro Brief. Note the covered period and choose two developments relevant to your question. 2. **Check your own workflow.** Open My Watchtower to inspect your watches, changes and inbox. Creating or saving a watch is a separate action you choose. 3. **Look ahead.** Open Calendar and check the date, time zone and event status. A scheduled event is not a known outcome. **Example:** A morning list might contain one funding question, one transport question and one upcoming official release—with dates and source links. Start broad, then narrow your attention. A briefing helps you spot questions; the source records and specialist tools help you answer them. ### Check your understanding Does a new headline in a briefing prove the event just happened? A. Yes, every new headline is a new event B. No; check the original event and publication times C. Only if the headline is dramatic **Answer B:** Newly collected, newly published and newly occurring are different time concepts. ## Research one country or region **Goal:** Combine a country profile with dated, source-backed risk context. - Select the intended country - Read years, units and coverage - Inspect the evidence behind a domain 1. **Start with the country profile.** Open Countries and choose a country you know. Look at the observation year of one statistic. 2. **Open the risk overview.** Choose the same country and a domain. The country selector is a useful place to begin. 3. **Check the evidence window.** The 1, 7 and 30 day choices select an evidence lookback. Open a driver or source record and check its meaning. **Example:** A missing country-domain value means there was not enough eligible evidence for that assessment. It does not prove low risk. Countries helps you understand a place’s statistics and background. Global Risk Overview helps you inspect cross-domain evidence pressure. Read the sources rather than treating a colour as a verdict. ### Check your understanding What does a 7-day selector in Global Risk Overview mean? A. A guaranteed seven-day forecast B. The selected evidence lookback C. Seven independent sources **Answer B:** The evidence window is separate from the defined forecast horizons in Systemic research or Forecast Lab. ## Use maps and layers **Goal:** Open a layer, inspect a feature and understand what its geometry represents. - Find map layer controls - Open a feature’s details - Distinguish a location reference from an impact area 1. **Find the layer directory.** Open Map Layers to see the main globe’s categories. Individual workspaces also have their own map controls. 2. **Inspect a specialist map.** Open Infrastructure. Choose a layer and open a feature using the map or its list. 3. **Practise the geometry distinction.** Use the map-symbol practice card to compare a reported point, a general country anchor and an authored scenario area. Teaching example: geometry. **Example:** A marker near a facility may be an approximate locality reference. It does not by itself establish an outage, ownership or measured loss. A dot, a line and a shaded area can represent very different evidence. Read the feature’s source and geometry description before drawing conclusions about the places around it. ### Check your understanding A line is labelled schematic. What does that establish? A. Its exact surveyed route B. A stated reference connection, with the supplied scope C. Its current operating capacity **Answer B:** A schematic connection can be useful context while its exact geometry and operating state remain unknown. ## Understand market numbers **Goal:** Read prices, yields and changes in the correct units. - Read the instrument identity and source clock - Understand basis points and percentage points - Separate a fund-price proxy from the underlying market 1. **Read a market overview row.** Open Summary in Market Overview. Find the source date and the instrument or benchmark name. 2. **Look at a yield curve.** Open US curve. Compare tenors and check whether a change is in basis points or percentage points. 3. **Try the yield example.** Change the practice yields and compare the three ways of describing the move. Teaching example: bond-units. **Example:** A yield moving from 4.00% to 4.10% rises 10 basis points, 0.10 percentage points, or 2.5% relative to the starting yield. A price move, a yield move and a change in an index are different measurements. Check the instrument, currency, unit and source time before comparing two figures. ### Check your understanding How many basis points are in a 0.10 percentage-point move? A. 0.10 bps B. 10 bps C. 100 bps **Answer B:** One percentage point equals 100 basis points, so 0.10 × 100 = 10 bps. ## Compare ratings and CDS carefully **Goal:** Find the right rated entity and tell a rating from a reported contract price. - Find Ratings & CDS - Inspect an issuer or instrument identity - Separate spreads, coupons and upfront payments 1. **Open the reference workspace.** In Global Bonds, open Ratings & CDS. Search an issuer or fund name; use exact LEI or ISIN filters when appropriate. 2. **Inspect a reference.** Read the actual rated name, agency, instrument/issuer scope, action date and status. A name match is a candidate to review. 3. **Try the CDS field example.** See why a fixed coupon is not a substitute for a missing reported spread. Teaching example: credit-fields. **Example:** A fund can hold a rated bond without having that bond’s rating itself. A reported CDS coupon and an upfront payment are not automatically a current five-year spread. An agency rating is a source opinion about a particular issuer or instrument. A CDS spread is a reported credit-derivative field. Neither should silently be transferred to a subsidiary, a fund’s holdings or another contract. ### Check your understanding A CDS record has a 500 bps coupon but no reported spread. What is its observed market spread? A. 500 bps B. Zero C. Not supplied by that field **Answer C:** The contractual coupon is a different field. Do not manufacture the missing spread from it. ## Investigate a news claim **Goal:** Trace a claim to its source and keep related reports distinct. - Search a focused question - Inspect original source wording - Keep claims and confirmations separate 1. **Search a topic and place.** Use Watchtower Search. Start with a company, place or event term and narrow the period where offered. 2. **Follow the related records.** Open Linked Events and inspect the source identities and dates of related items. 3. **Write a source-based finding.** State what is reported, who says it, and what still needs confirmation. Similar wording is not automatically independent evidence. **Example:** Three articles repeating one announcement are three publications, not necessarily three independent confirmations. Use Search to find records and Linked Events or Incident Graph to inspect relationships. A cluster of similar headlines can come from the same original report. ### Check your understanding What should you check before calling two reports independent confirmation? A. Whether they have different colours B. Whether they share the same underlying source or claim C. Whether both headlines contain the country name **Answer B:** Source lineage and the original claim matter more than the number of publications. ## Read a forecast without overclaiming **Goal:** Find the target, time window, evidence and track record behind an estimate. - Identify the exact forecast target - Separate historical research from issued forecasts - Recognise unresolved or incomplete outcomes 1. **Open Forecast Lab.** Choose a target and horizon. Read the base time, target time and the measured outcome. 2. **Inspect the evidence and method.** Read the input cut-off, model/version and any missing coverage. A range has a stated meaning, not a guaranteed outcome. 3. **Check the track record.** Separate historical tests from forecasts actually issued before their outcomes. Unresolved outcomes should stay unresolved. **Example:** An estimate about a US-listed fund over five NYSE sessions is not a five-day crisis probability for a country selected beside it. A model number only makes sense with its target definition. A fund-price forecast, a regional warning and a country-context score are not interchangeable. ### Check your understanding Does a good historical backtest establish proven live forecasting skill? A. Yes, automatically B. No; inspect prospective results and calibration C. Only when the chart is smooth **Answer B:** Historical research and genuinely issued prospective performance answer different questions. ## Ask the Assistant a useful question **Goal:** Choose an AI tool, preview evidence and review the answer’s support. - Write a focused evidence question - Preview sources before generation - Check citations and missing information 1. **Find the Assistant.** Locate the Assistant button. Opening a tool does not run the model. 2. **Choose a task and question.** For example: explain this evidence, extract a claim, compare revisions, draft a briefing or review a document. Add the place, period and desired output. 3. **Review before and after running.** Use Preview evidence, then Run AI only when you choose. Afterwards inspect citations, source dates and withheld claims. **Example:** ‘Explain the selected country’s funding evidence. Separate observations, model context and missing sources, and cite the original periods.’ The interactive guide works without an AI connection. When you want AI help, the Assistant uses the signed-in account’s configured OpenAI connection and existing access limits. ### Check your understanding What does a citation check establish? A. That the publisher’s claim is certainly true B. That the answer has a checked connection to its selected evidence; source truth still needs review C. That all possible sources were read **Answer B:** Source support, truth, completeness and model accuracy are different checks. ## Choose the right monitoring workflow **Goal:** Understand where a watch or rule runs and where its result appears. - Distinguish watches from armed rules - Check source units and unknown inputs - Find the intended delivery channel 1. **Inspect personal monitoring.** Open My Watchtower and read the watch/inbox controls and the current account context. 2. **Inspect Alerts.** Read the rule source, condition, freshness, cooldown and where it evaluates. Save or enable only through the native controls when you choose. 3. **Try an unknown input.** The practice rule shows why missing evidence should not silently become false or zero. Teaching example: alert-logic. **Example:** A browser evaluator needs its eligible visible page. A server inbox has its own watch, scheduling and budget rules. Watchtower has several monitoring tools. A browser rule, a personal server inbox and a passive tracked item do not have the same delivery behaviour. ### Check your understanding For a browser rule, what does NOT unknown mean? A. True B. False C. Still unknown **Answer C:** Negation cannot turn missing evidence into a known observation. ## Keep a useful research record **Goal:** Know what is saved and export enough evidence for another reader. - Check the feature’s storage label - Preserve original source dates and units - Share a reproducible selection 1. **Inspect a report or edition.** Open Reports and look for its edition identity, period and evidence/manifest controls. 2. **Check where a save lives.** Before leaving a workspace, read its saved-state confirmation and whether it is in this browser, the current session or your account. 3. **Keep context with the export.** Include the question, filters, period, source links, units and limitations. A view link is not a backup of private notes. **Example:** A report’s publication date does not make every observation in its evidence manifest equally recent. Different workspaces save in different places. A browser-local layer, a server-backed case and a purchased report have different storage and access rules. ### Check your understanding Will every browser-local layer appear automatically on another device after sign-in? A. Yes B. Only if its own feature explicitly provides that synchronisation C. Only when its colour is blue **Answer B:** Read each feature’s storage contract; local files and cloud records are different. ## Explore a place in War Room **Goal:** Use the guided place tools and understand what a result can establish. - Choose the correct place or map point - Read the search radius and historical period - Distinguish a scenario from a physical forecast 1. **Open War Room.** Choose Check a place in Simple view. Search for the intended location or select a point yourself. 2. **Choose the search scope.** Read the radius, years and source coverage before showing records. A search radius is not a hazard footprint. 3. **Read and keep the summary.** Inspect source details and use the provided text download when useful. Optional water/radio tools use your explicit assumptions and their stated models. **Example:** No matching historical records in a chosen radius does not establish that the place is safe. War Room now starts with clear Simple-view choices: Check a place, Find a dam, Explore map and Help. All tools opens the wider investigation and terrain workspace. ### Check your understanding Does a reported reservoir capacity equal the water stored there today? A. Always B. No; check the source definition and current evidence C. Only for large dams **Answer B:** Capacity, present storage and an assumed release volume are separate quantities. ## Choose your next skill and solve common problems **Goal:** Use the capability library, current methods and useful problem reports. - Find a related capability - Distinguish access, source and interface problems - Resume your learning later 1. **Browse the full capability library.** Search a goal such as credit, cameras, weather, reports or countries. Every current navigation entry has a learning destination. 2. **Use the appropriate recovery control.** For a source gap, inspect its status. For account checking, wait for verified access. For a map issue, use the native graphics/reload controls offered for that view. 3. **Report a clear problem.** Include the workspace, action, time, expected result and visible error. Remove private notes or credentials from any screenshot. **Example:** ‘The country table did not move horizontally on my phone at this time’ is more actionable than ‘everything is broken.’ You do not have to learn every workspace in one sitting. Use Capabilities to find a tool by task, then open its Extended lesson when you need more detail. ### Check your understanding What should you do before clearing browser data to fix missing saved work? A. Delete it immediately B. Check the account, device and storage location, and export important local work C. Assume the server deleted everything **Answer B:** Clearing local storage can remove work that was never stored on the server. ## Navigation and workspace controls **Goal:** Use modes, Commands, layout controls, fullscreen and map tools without losing your place. - Choose the right application mode - Find a workspace - Inspect a wider view 1. **Choose the right application mode.** Compare Brief, Monitor and Investigate. The guide’s Simple/Extended selector changes learning depth, not application access. 2. **Find a workspace.** Use Commands or the capability directory. If a tab was hidden by your layout, review Customize Workspace rather than assuming it was removed. 3. **Inspect a wider view.** Open a workspace and use its native fullscreen control. Keep the same selection and return with its close control. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What does a copied view link preserve? A. Every private note and source file B. The supported view context, not necessarily private content C. A new subscription **Answer B:** A view link and an export or private saved record have different scope. ## Reading data correctly **Goal:** Read clocks, units, evidence classes, missingness and model meaning consistently. - Classify the item - Check the clocks - Preserve the comparison basis 1. **Classify the item.** Decide whether it is an observation, reference, forecast, authored scenario or interpretation before using its value. Teaching example: evidence. 2. **Check the clocks.** Distinguish event/observation, publication, collection and displayed/model times. Retained data keeps its original date. 3. **Preserve the comparison basis.** Compare like units, periods, entity scope and currencies. State gaps rather than filling them with a guessed zero. Teaching example: bond-units. **Example:** Decide whether it is an observation, reference, forecast, authored scenario or interpretation before using its value. ### Check your understanding Can a fresh retrieval make an old observation a current measurement? A. Yes B. No C. Only for numeric observations **Answer B:** Retrieval is a separate clock; observation age and source coverage remain visible. ## Brief, Pro Brief and Signal Board **Goal:** Use briefing, signal and alert-screen views as a starting point for source review. - Choose an overview - Inspect a signal - Review the alert screen 1. **Choose an overview.** Open Pro Brief and identify its period and scope. 2. **Inspect a signal.** Open Signal Board, choose one item and trace the source behind it. 3. **Review the alert screen.** Compare the board’s chosen metrics with the specific thresholds or conditions they represent. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a tile count measure independently verified events? A. Always B. Only if its explicit definition and evidence establish that C. Never read tile counts **Answer B:** Counts can refer to records, sources, models or matches. Read the definition. ## My Watchtower **Goal:** Set up a deliberate personal watch, review changes and understand the server inbox. - Inspect your personal workspace - Review a watch before saving - Review a matched item 1. **Inspect your personal workspace.** Confirm the current account and open My Watchtower. 2. **Review a watch before saving.** Choose the supported subject, source and budget. Use the native save controls yourself and read the saved state. 3. **Review a matched item.** Open What changed or the inbox. Inspect the exact matched record and original date before acknowledging it. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a passive map pin automatically become a My Watchtower server watch? A. Yes B. No; use the watch workflow’s own controls C. Only in dark theme **Answer B:** Personal watches and passive references have separate evaluation and storage contracts. ## Watchtower Search **Goal:** Find source-qualified records and move from search results to the relevant workspace. - Ask a focused search question - Narrow the search - Open the evidence home 1. **Ask a focused search question.** Use a place, issuer, event or source term rather than a broad conclusion. 2. **Narrow the search.** Use the source/type/category/period controls offered in the result view. Inspect duplicates and original-source links. 3. **Open the evidence home.** Follow a result to its specialist workspace and keep its source date and scope with your notes. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What does a missing search result establish? A. The event did not occur B. No matching retained result in that query and coverage C. The source is false **Answer B:** Search coverage is bounded; absence in a result set is not proof of absence in the world. ## News, Social and Narratives **Goal:** Compare news and social reports without confusing publication volume with confirmation. - Compare news lenses - Inspect public social context - Follow a narrative 1. **Compare news lenses.** Choose Breaking, Economics, Technology, Health/Bio or Natural Disasters for the question at hand. 2. **Inspect public social context.** Review the original post, attribution and time. Treat it according to its source and evidence class. 3. **Follow a narrative.** Use Narratives to compare reported claims and their evolution; inspect originals for important changes. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Which is stronger evidence of independent corroboration? A. Many near-identical headlines B. Independent primary observations addressing the same claim C. A high publication count alone **Answer B:** Publication volume can reflect syndication, repetition or attention. ## Linked Events and Incident Graph **Goal:** Follow related records, inspect revisions and distinguish an event graph from a verified causal chain. - Start with a source record - Inspect the relationship - Resolve the entity 1. **Start with a source record.** Open Linked Events and select a topic or record. 2. **Inspect the relationship.** Use Incident Graph to see the stated link, dates and source evidence. 3. **Resolve the entity.** Open Entity Explorer when an organisation, identifier or relationship needs closer inspection. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What does an edge in a graph prove by itself? A. Causation B. Only the relationship represented by that edge’s definition C. A measured financial loss **Answer B:** Read the edge type and source evidence; do not infer stronger causality or exposure. ## Economic Calendar **Goal:** Read event schedules, releases, comparisons and source revisions in the correct time zone. - Select the calendar window - Read the release state - Use the event as a question 1. **Select the calendar window.** Open Calendar and choose the relevant region, day or event type. 2. **Read the release state.** Separate scheduled time, actual release, estimate, previous value and revised value. 3. **Use the event as a question.** Connect the release to its native units and specialist workspace; do not treat a scheduled event as a known surprise. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What should a revised previous value be treated as? A. An unchanged historical fact B. A source revision that can change comparisons C. A new future forecast **Answer B:** Preserve the original/revised distinction and the relevant release period. ## Market Overview, Markets and Global Markets **Goal:** Use benchmark, stock, FX, commodity and crypto reference views with clear identities and units. - Read a market row - Compare a specialist panel - Explore the global atlas 1. **Read a market row.** Start in Market Overview Summary and inspect the instrument, source and clock. 2. **Compare a specialist panel.** Use the Markets panel for the relevant asset class. Indices and individual stocks are different inventories. 3. **Explore the global atlas.** Open Global Markets and check regional selection, company/listing-country basis and available coverage. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a stock’s listing country fully describe its economic exposure? A. Yes B. No; inspect company and exposure evidence separately C. Only for large companies **Answer B:** Listing venue, company domicile and underlying economic exposure are different concepts. ## Fear & Greed, Market Tone and bond-move units **Goal:** Interpret the distinct sentiment views and calculate bond moves in compatible units. - Inspect the sentiment method - Compare Market Tone - Calculate a yield change 1. **Inspect the sentiment method.** Open Fear & Greed and read which inputs the current view uses. 2. **Compare Market Tone.** Inspect its own composition and source state rather than assuming it duplicates the other gauge. 3. **Calculate a yield change.** Use the practice calculator to distinguish basis points, percentage points and relative change. Teaching example: bond-units. **Example:** Use the practice calculator to distinguish basis points, percentage points and relative change. ### Check your understanding A yield rises from 4% to 5%. What is the move in basis points? A. 1 bp B. 25 bps C. 100 bps **Answer C:** The move is one percentage point, equal to 100 bps; its relative change is 25%. ## Global Bonds, Financial Stress, Deposits and Bank Run Monitor **Goal:** Connect fixed-income observations, funding context and banking evidence without mixing their meanings. - Inspect Global Bonds - Check wider funding context - Inspect a banking reference 1. **Inspect Global Bonds.** Choose a curve, sovereign, credit, derivatives or funding view and read the source classification. 2. **Check wider funding context.** Open Financial Stress or Deposits and retain each measure’s own period and method. 3. **Inspect a banking reference.** Use Bank Run Monitor’s institution/source views and the separate Bank CDS table. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is derivatives notional the same as net loss exposure? A. Yes B. No; the measures have different definitions C. Only if both are in USD **Answer B:** Notional, market value, legally netted exposure and losses are distinct quantities. ## Global Debt and source-anchored debt clocks **Goal:** Compare reported debt measures and understand the optional source-anchored running displays. - Select a debt definition - Inspect the anchor - Compare like with like 1. **Select a debt definition.** Open Global Debt and choose the sector, geography and period. 2. **Inspect the anchor.** Read the source stock, units, covered economies and any extrapolation label. 3. **Compare like with like.** Keep government, household, corporate and total nonfinancial debt definitions separate; distinguish reported values from running illustrations. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a moving debt counter mean an agency reports a new observation each second? A. Yes B. No; inspect its reported anchor and extrapolation method C. Only when it moves upward **Answer B:** A running display can be an illustration anchored to dated observations. ## Global Wealth and Affordability **Goal:** Use wealth, consumer-price and affordability evidence with explicit scope and source periods. - Choose a wealth or price lens - Inspect the comparison basis - Review a discovery item 1. **Choose a wealth or price lens.** Open Global Wealth / Affordability and read its evidence labels. 2. **Inspect the comparison basis.** Separate nominal/real/PPP, currency, observation year and the model’s selected coverage. 3. **Review a discovery item.** A hardship headline or affordability screen is context; confirm important claims with original evidence. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is a cross-country affordability screen an exact household cost-of-living bill? A. Yes B. No; it has a declared comparison scope and assumptions C. Only for countries with a flag **Answer B:** Household circumstances, definitions and source coverage can differ from the comparative screen. ## Crypto Intel and digital-asset research **Goal:** Distinguish crypto market prices, token references, protocol/network evidence and model context. - Select a crypto view - Check identities and clocks - Keep the evidence classes separate 1. **Select a crypto view.** Open Crypto Intel and identify the token/network or market being discussed. 2. **Check identities and clocks.** Read contract/network identifiers, source time and available coverage before comparing names. 3. **Keep the evidence classes separate.** A price move, protocol metric, exchange event and heuristic risk label answer different questions. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Do two tokens with the same display name necessarily identify the same asset? A. Yes B. No; inspect the network and identifiers C. Only when they share an icon **Answer B:** Names and icons are not sufficient asset identifiers. ## Monetary Predictions, Gold and Commodity Wars **Goal:** Read monetary, gold and resource research without mixing flows, stocks, market prices and scenarios. - Inspect the selected monetary view - Separate the gold measures - Compare resource evidence 1. **Inspect the selected monetary view.** Open Monetary Predictions and read the target, source date and method. 2. **Separate the gold measures.** Keep holdings, flows, market prices and estimates in their stated units and periods. 3. **Compare resource evidence.** In Commodity Wars, inspect source definitions and compatible country/resource periods before comparing a rank. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Can reserves, annual production and a market price be added as the same measure? A. Yes B. No C. Only for gold **Answer B:** They describe different units and time bases; a meaningful transformation needs an explicit method. ## Prediction Markets **Goal:** Read market-implied event contracts alongside their resolution terms and liquidity context. - Open a contract - Read the rule - Compare carefully 1. **Open a contract.** Use Prediction Markets to select a specific market and outcome. 2. **Read the rule.** Inspect the question wording, outcome deadline, resolution source and trading state. 3. **Compare carefully.** Separate price-implied expectations from a Watchtower forecast and from an already verified outcome. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What is essential before comparing two probability-like market values? A. The card colour B. Compatible contract definitions and resolution windows C. The number of likes **Answer B:** Different settlement criteria can make superficially similar probabilities incomparable. ## Companies and issuer research **Goal:** Resolve the issuer/listing, inspect primary financial evidence and find separate credit references. - Find the issuer - Inspect identifiers and facts - Check agency and CDS references 1. **Find the issuer.** Open Companies and use its universe or market dossier controls. 2. **Inspect identifiers and facts.** Check the CIK/LEI/listing and the exact financial reporting period. Category membership is not proof of current production. 3. **Check agency and CDS references.** Use the separate credit-reference card or Global Bonds hub; verify the actual source-rated entity. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a holding-company rating automatically apply to every subsidiary? A. Yes B. No; the rated object must match C. Only if names are similar **Answer B:** Issuer, parent, subsidiary and individual obligations have separate legal and rating scopes. ## Countries and Global Politics **Goal:** Build a dated country dossier and inspect political indicators, news and legislative records. - Select a country profile - Inspect politics and legislation - Follow the source 1. **Select a country profile.** Open Countries and compare the year, definition and coverage of a statistic. 2. **Inspect politics and legislation.** Use Global Politics for political news and bills/legislation, including source-specific stages and dates. 3. **Follow the source.** Separate an indicator, a news report, passage of a bill and legal commencement; keep uncertain status explicit. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does passage of a bill necessarily establish that it is in force now? A. Yes B. No; inspect enactment and commencement evidence C. Only if it has a headline **Answer B:** Legislative stages and effective dates are different facts. ## Geopolitical Risk and Outcome Tree **Goal:** Inspect country context and authored scenario pathways under their declared definitions. - Read the country evidence - Inspect a scenario - Check sensitivity and results 1. **Read the country evidence.** Open Geopolitical Risk and inspect country-table/source clocks and qualifiers. 2. **Inspect a scenario.** Open Outcome Tree and read its criterion, horizon and contributing inputs. 3. **Check sensitivity and results.** Separate authored assumptions, dependence bounds and actual prospective outcomes before interpreting a model value. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Must non-exclusive scenario values add to 100%? A. Yes B. No; the scenarios can overlap C. Only in the country view **Answer B:** Non-exclusive events and dependence bounds do not form a mutually exclusive probability partition. ## Bayes Threat, Ancap Welcomeness and country taxes **Goal:** Read declared value-based country comparisons and source-qualified tax/fee evidence. - Inspect the declared pillars - Review the source and missing-input bounds - Inspect a tax or fee 1. **Inspect the declared pillars.** Open Bayes Threat · Ancap Welcomeness and choose a country. 2. **Review the source and missing-input bounds.** Read the model weights, observation years and coverage before using the rank. 3. **Inspect a tax or fee.** Keep jurisdiction, residency/conditions, currency, effective/review dates and service scope with the value. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is a headline tax rate an effective tax bill for every person? A. Yes B. No; conditions and jurisdiction matter C. Only if it is a percentage **Answer B:** Schedules, reliefs, residency and other taxes/fees can change the relevant amount. ## Global Risk Overview and Systemic research **Goal:** Use Global Risk Overview and its Systemic workbench to connect coverage, drivers and defined forecasts. - Select a country/domain - Read drivers and coverage - Review Systemic outcomes 1. **Select a country/domain.** Open Global Risk Overview and locate the country control. 2. **Read drivers and coverage.** Inspect the original source dates, excluded inputs and the meaning of the evidence-pressure score. 3. **Review Systemic outcomes.** Use the embedded Systemic workbench or Forecast Lab; inspect frozen definitions and prospective performance. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is a country evidence-pressure index automatically a calibrated crisis probability? A. Yes B. No; inspect its method and validation scope C. Only if the score is high **Answer B:** An index and a probability forecast are different outputs with different validation requirements. ## Forecast Lab and Energy outlook **Goal:** Inspect forecast targets, historical research, genuine issuance and source-qualified energy scenarios. - Read the target definition - Inspect the track record - Review an energy assumption 1. **Read the target definition.** Open Forecast Lab and select an instrument/scenario and horizon. 2. **Inspect the track record.** Separate current-vintage research from issued forecasts and compatible resolved outcomes. 3. **Review an energy assumption.** Use Energy’s source units, production context and explicit supply assumptions; retain missing denominators and source limits. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a futures-curve quote prove the future spot price? A. Yes B. No; it is a delivery-contract reference with its own meaning C. Only for oil **Answer B:** Quoted futures, expected future spot and official settlements are not interchangeable. ## Infrastructure and Pacific/subsea networks **Goal:** Inspect infrastructure assets and network references with geometry and lifecycle qualifications. - Choose an asset/network layer - Inspect the feature - Compare network context 1. **Choose an asset/network layer.** Open Infrastructure and find the relevant layer/source controls. 2. **Inspect the feature.** Read its identifier, source, date, geometry meaning and operating/proposed/unknown lifecycle. 3. **Compare network context.** Use Pacific/subsea and integrated tools where useful; do not infer live flow or exact routes from schematic links. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a mapped cable or pipeline establish current throughput? A. Yes B. No; reference geometry is not a flow measurement C. Only for an underwater line **Answer B:** Operating state and measured flow need their own evidence. ## Commodity Atlas, Commodities Data and gas facilities **Goal:** Separate commodity prices, country totals and site/facility reference evidence. - Choose a commodity and geography - Read the data companion - Inspect a site reference 1. **Choose a commodity and geography.** Open Commodity Atlas and inspect the source layers. 2. **Read the data companion.** Use Commodities Data for its tables and source-defined measures. 3. **Inspect a site reference.** Read coordinates/locality precision, capacity/production definitions, lifecycle and original source before linking it to a company. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Can a national production total be assigned to a mapped facility without evidence? A. Yes B. No C. Only if the facility is large **Answer B:** Country totals, site references and ownership shares require explicit source-supported joins. ## War Room: monitoring, investigations and terrain tools **Goal:** Move from War Room Simple questions to source-linked investigations and explicit terrain scenarios. - Start with a clear question - Inspect sources and assumptions - Use All tools deliberately 1. **Start with a clear question.** Open War Room → Simple view and choose Check a place, Find a dam or Explore map. 2. **Inspect sources and assumptions.** Read the chosen catalogue, historical period, geometry and any volume/terrain gaps. 3. **Use All tools deliberately.** Open the full investigation/planning controls when needed; preserve your native case and explicitly chosen scenario inputs. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is a water-on-terrain drawing an engineered dam-break arrival forecast? A. Yes B. No; read the stated scenario/model scope C. Only when coloured areas appear **Answer B:** The scenario does not establish arrival times, velocities, evacuation routes or personal safety. ## Conflict / Military **Goal:** Interpret public conflict/military observations and historical context with source and location precision. - Select the public evidence view - Inspect a report or marker - Compare independent context 1. **Select the public evidence view.** Open Conflict / Military and choose the appropriate source/layer/time selection. 2. **Inspect a report or marker.** Read its source, date, classification and geography precision rather than treating a symbol as verification. 3. **Compare independent context.** Use original reports and dated historical layers separately; volume and proximity do not establish an operational conclusion. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a country anchor give a verified incident coordinate? A. Yes B. No C. Only for a high-severity report **Answer B:** Subject-country context and verified incident geometry are different evidence types. ## Air / Aviation **Goal:** Inspect public aviation observations, replay/context and private research tools with clear scope. - Select an observation - Read operational context - Choose a research workflow 1. **Select an observation.** Open Air / Aviation and inspect the source-native aircraft/contact identity and time. 2. **Read operational context.** Review airport, weather and airspace evidence with its own source clock and coverage. 3. **Choose a research workflow.** Use retained replay, comparisons or authorised private case/watch features deliberately. Manual paid/provider lookups are separate actions. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does absent public aircraft coverage prove there was no aircraft? A. Yes B. No; coverage and observation gaps matter C. Only over water **Answer B:** A public observation feed is not an exhaustive operational picture. ## Marine and Mobility Intel **Goal:** Read transport nodes, vessel/route observations and corridor context without overstating operations. - Inspect a mobility node - Inspect marine context - Keep reference and observation separate 1. **Inspect a mobility node.** Open Mobility Intel and use the appropriate airport/port/rail/border/transit layer. 2. **Inspect marine context.** Use Marine for source-qualified maritime and chokepoint evidence. 3. **Keep reference and observation separate.** A catalogue location, vessel contact, route connection and disruption threshold can have different dates and meanings. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does an airport reference record prove the airport is operating normally right now? A. Yes B. No; current operations need separate evidence C. Only if it has coordinates **Answer B:** A maintained reference inventory is different from a live operational-status assessment. ## Weather Alerts and Natural Hazards **Goal:** Read official warnings, physical events, forecasts and historical hazard layers correctly. - Read a warning window - Compare the hazard evidence - Check the layer’s meaning 1. **Read a warning window.** Open Weather Alerts and inspect issue/effective/expiry times and source geometry. 2. **Compare the hazard evidence.** Open Natural Hazards for its event and source-specific context. 3. **Check the layer’s meaning.** Separate observed events, forecast areas, historical references, advisories and unlocated records. Teaching example: geometry. **Example:** Separate observed events, forecast areas, historical references, advisories and unlocated records. ### Check your understanding Does a weather warning polygon prove measured damage everywhere inside it? A. Yes B. No; warning area and observed impact differ C. Only at high severity **Answer B:** Read the issuing authority’s definition and the evidence for actual impacts. ## Space Weather and Satellite & Sensor Data **Goal:** Read space-weather observations, warnings, forecasts and satellite references with their epochs. - Inspect the space-weather panel - Inspect a satellite reference - Use imagery or pass tools carefully 1. **Inspect the space-weather panel.** Compare Live, Threats, Forecast, Aurora, Asteroids and Sources for their different products. 2. **Inspect a satellite reference.** Open Satellite & Sensor Data and read catalogue/element/source epochs. 3. **Use imagery or pass tools carefully.** A dated image comparison and a pass calculation are source/geometry-specific products, not current sensor collection or guaranteed visibility. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does an orbital-element calculation guarantee that you can see a satellite? A. Yes B. No; epoch, observer geometry and visibility conditions matter C. Only for a large satellite **Answer B:** Propagation and visibility are different claims; retained elements have a stated age. ## Outages and Cyber Exposure **Goal:** Distinguish measured service disruption, cyber references and inferred exposure. - Read the disruption evidence - Inspect cyber evidence - Check the causal claim 1. **Read the disruption evidence.** Open Outages and select a source/service/geography with its original date. 2. **Inspect cyber evidence.** Use Cyber Exposure for source-specific vulnerabilities, incidents and network context. 3. **Check the causal claim.** An outage and a vulnerability record do not by themselves establish a common cause or a compromised organisation. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a known vulnerability establish that a particular company has been compromised? A. Yes B. No; vulnerability, exposure and incident evidence differ C. Only if the severity is high **Answer B:** The source record must support the specific exposure and incident claim. ## Sanctions / Ownership and CBDC & Digital Money **Goal:** Use exact identities and source dates for sanctions/ownership and digital-money research. - Resolve the sanctions subject - Compare ownership evidence - Inspect the digital-money programme 1. **Resolve the sanctions subject.** Open Sanctions / Ownership and inspect identifiers, programme, jurisdiction and dates. 2. **Compare ownership evidence.** Treat names and relationship links as source-qualified matches, not automatic legal conclusions. 3. **Inspect the digital-money programme.** Use CBDC & Digital Money and read whether a programme is researched, piloted, proposed or operating. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Is a similar name enough for an exact sanctions match? A. Yes B. No; identifiers and the applicable source record matter C. Only for companies **Answer B:** A name match needs identity review; legal status depends on the relevant authority and record. ## Insurance Risk & Resilience **Goal:** Combine insurance statistics and worldwide stress context without inventing carrier losses. - Choose the evidence lens - Read dates, geography and source class - Inspect the financial boundary 1. **Choose the evidence lens.** Open Insurance Stress and inspect the financial or worldwide stress view. 2. **Read dates, geography and source class.** Distinguish hazard observations/warnings, reported conflict/unrest, historical records and original authored CAT references. 3. **Inspect the financial boundary.** A hazard near an asset does not supply a carrier’s policies, treaty terms or measured insured loss. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a nearby hazard marker establish an insurer’s loss amount? A. Yes B. No; insured exposures and contract terms are separate evidence C. Only for large events **Answer B:** The map supplies context, not an unobserved insurer-loss calculation. ## Health / Biosecurity and Crime & Terror **Goal:** Read public health and crime/security sources with their denominators, definitions and coverage limits. - Inspect health evidence - Inspect crime/security evidence - Check comparability 1. **Inspect health evidence.** Open Health / Biosecurity and read the source definition, period and geography. 2. **Inspect crime/security evidence.** Open Crime & Terror and distinguish reported events, official statistics and authored context. 3. **Check comparability.** Different reporting systems, denominators and missing coverage can make simple country rankings misleading. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does an empty map establish low disease or crime incidence? A. Yes B. No; coverage and filtering may be incomplete C. Only in a small country **Answer B:** An absence of displayed records is not a measured zero incidence rate. ## Cameras, viewing walls and Flock locations **Goal:** Use camera references/viewing walls and Flock locations without assuming availability or access rights. - Inspect a camera record - Use playback explicitly - Inspect Flock locations 1. **Inspect a camera record.** Open Cameras and read the source, media type, timestamps and available access. 2. **Use playback explicitly.** Start/stop the supported image/stream or viewing-wall slot yourself; registered references do not guarantee playback. 3. **Inspect Flock locations.** Treat these as community-mapped location references with source-change history, not plate records or verified live hardware status. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What does a removed Flock source record prove? A. The hardware was removed at that moment B. A source mapping change; physical status needs evidence C. All associated footage was deleted **Answer B:** Mapping updates and real-world installation/removal are different events. ## Portfolio, personal relevance and exposure monitoring **Goal:** Understand owner-scoped portfolio inputs, quote coverage and conditional exposure research. - Check the active account - Inspect the inputs - Review the exposure method 1. **Check the active account.** Open Portfolio and verify the account and saved-state status before editing. 2. **Inspect the inputs.** Read quantities, instrument/listing identifiers, currencies and quote freshness. Enter or save only through the native controls. 3. **Review the exposure method.** An overlap or industry relationship is not a measured loss; keep assumptions and mapping gaps with the conclusion. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a missing quote mean a holding is worth zero? A. Yes B. No; it is a valuation coverage gap C. Only for a small holding **Answer B:** Unknown prices must not silently become zero-value assets. ## Alerts and Intelligence Rule Studio **Goal:** Design and inspect rules with correct evaluation, freshness, delivery and unknown-state semantics. - Identify the monitoring system - Read the condition tree - Practise missing-input logic 1. **Identify the monitoring system.** Open Alerts and distinguish browser rules from personal server-inbox workflows. 2. **Read the condition tree.** Inspect ALL/ANY/NOT groups, units, crossing/duration behaviour, freshness and cooldown before saving or arming. 3. **Practise missing-input logic.** Use the teaching example to see how unknown propagates through a condition. Teaching example: alert-logic. **Example:** Use the teaching example to see how unknown propagates through a condition. ### Check your understanding Can a crossing be established from a single first observation? A. Yes B. No; it needs comparable observations under the rule’s definition C. Only for a high value **Answer B:** A first sample is a baseline, and missing/stale samples do not establish a crossing. ## Data Q&A, AI Analysis and Oracle **Goal:** Choose deterministic lookup, guided AI assistance or a deeper report according to the question. - Start with structured evidence - Choose an AI task deliberately - Review the deeper report scope 1. **Start with structured evidence.** Open Data Q&A and choose a source/measure/period. 2. **Choose an AI task deliberately.** Use Assistant for the relevant bounded task and inspect the source selection before Run AI. 3. **Review the deeper report scope.** Open AI Analysis/Deep Analyst when an entitled report is appropriate. Check evidence, costs and provider/account status first. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does an AI summary independently verify every cited source? A. Yes B. No; inspect source support and limitations C. Only if it has citations **Answer B:** Citations improve traceability but do not establish independent truth or exhaustive coverage. ## Reports and evidence-backed briefings **Goal:** Read or request a report with its edition, evidence manifest, covered period and account scope intact. - Select an edition - Inspect edition evidence - Export or request explicitly 1. **Select an edition.** Open Reports and read the publication and covered period. 2. **Inspect edition evidence.** Use the source/manifest controls and keep the edition’s captured evidence identity. 3. **Export or request explicitly.** Read the offered formats and current price/scope before any purchase or generation. Use native confirmation controls yourself. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Should today’s source values silently replace an older report’s captured evidence? A. Yes B. No; keep the edition identity and evidence period C. Only for a PDF **Answer B:** A reproducible report depends on its original captured evidence and documented revisions. ## Replay, saved work and exports **Goal:** Keep application replay, source history, forecast history and storage locations distinct. - Identify the history type - Check persistence - Export context with evidence 1. **Identify the history type.** Read whether you are using application replay, a source’s dated history or genuinely issued forecast records. 2. **Check persistence.** Confirm browser-local, session-only or account-server storage in the particular tool before leaving it. 3. **Export context with evidence.** Include selected scope, original dates, units, source identifiers and scenario assumptions; a view link is not a private-data backup. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding May a missing replay field be filled silently with today’s live value? A. Yes B. No C. Only when the field is numeric **Answer B:** That would mix time contexts and misrepresent what the captured snapshot contained. ## API Connections and AI-agent MCP access **Goal:** Use optional owned provider connections and discover/read the professional MCP catalogue coherently. - Inspect the connection controls - Discover reviewed datasets - Complete the right pagination 1. **Inspect the connection controls.** Open User & Settings and find API Connections & Add-ons. Provider entitlement and Watchtower access are separate. 2. **Discover reviewed datasets.** Use the live list_data_routes result and its allowed parameter descriptions before a read. Teaching example: paging. 3. **Complete the right pagination.** Keep MCP snapshots and endpoint-native page tokens separate; restart a coherent read after expiry or mismatch. **Example:** Use the live list_data_routes result and its allowed parameter descriptions before a read. ### Check your understanding Does finishing one MCP JSON-pointer page prove that all native source records were read? A. Yes B. No; the endpoint can have its own pagination C. Only for JSON **Answer B:** There can be two independent paging layers with separate snapshot rules. ## Accounts, subscriptions, affiliates and administration **Goal:** Distinguish verified access, purchases, provider costs and role-restricted administration. - Confirm the active identity - Read the current offer or status - Recognise restricted roles 1. **Confirm the active identity.** Use the account/access controls and wait for verification before private edits. 2. **Read the current offer or status.** Use the displayed checkout and purchase state; a pending confirmation is not an instruction to pay again. 3. **Recognise restricted roles.** Affiliate, Backoffice, App Health, reviewer and private OpenCode operations have their own permissions. Public guide visibility does not grant them. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does a displayed old account label prove current access is verified? A. Yes B. No; check the current access state C. Only for an administrator **Answer B:** Verification, expiry and account transitions can change available operations. ## Troubleshooting and reporting a problem **Goal:** Diagnose navigation, source, graphics, access and saved-state problems with useful evidence. - Identify the affected layer - Use the native recovery control - Submit a useful report 1. **Identify the affected layer.** Distinguish an unavailable source, an access check, a graphics issue and a navigation/layout problem. 2. **Use the native recovery control.** Retry the relevant view, inspect source status, or check the account/layout as appropriate. Preserve important local work first. 3. **Submit a useful report.** Name the workspace, action, time, expected/actual result and visible error. Use the report control when offered; review any screenshot before sending. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What is the most useful first description of an issue? A. Everything is broken B. The workspace, action, time and observed error C. Only the score on the page **Answer B:** Specific reproduction details help distinguish source, interface and account failures. ## Practical end-to-end playbooks **Goal:** Combine multiple tools into a reproducible research workflow for a real question. - State one question - Gather complementary evidence - Produce a bounded conclusion 1. **State one question.** Choose a country, company, event or operational topic and a clear time window. 2. **Gather complementary evidence.** Move from Search or an overview into the relevant specialist workspaces; retain supporting and contrary evidence. 3. **Produce a bounded conclusion.** Explain what the evidence supports, what remains unknown and how another reader can reproduce your selection. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding What makes a cross-workspace briefing reproducible? A. A large number of screenshots B. A clear question, compatible definitions, source dates/IDs and stated assumptions C. A confident headline **Answer B:** A reader needs the underlying evidence scope, not only a conclusion. ## Integrated map sources and tools **Goal:** Find integrated imagery, private layers, drawing, transit, camera, AQHI and satellite tools in their current homes. - Open the correct home - Find the domain additions - Inspect storage and attribution 1. **Open the correct home.** Infrastructure contains Street imagery, My layers, Draw/measure and Map briefings. 2. **Find the domain additions.** Mobility has transit positions, Cameras has selected traffic stills, Weather has Canadian AQHI, and Satellite & Sensor Data has imagery/pass tools. 3. **Inspect storage and attribution.** Check capture time/licence for imagery and explicit browser-save/export controls for your private GIS work. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Where is the former standalone Spatial Research functionality now? A. In the relevant existing workspaces, with private map work under Infrastructure B. Permanently removed from every workspace C. Automatically uploaded to a shared cloud map **Answer A:** The map tools were integrated into their domain workspaces; their storage and source meanings remain distinct. ## Corporate, fund and instrument ratings / CDS **Goal:** Find broad agency reference coverage and inspect reported CDS transactions without mixing entities or contracts. - Choose a rating reference - Inspect scope and dates - Inspect a CDS disclosure 1. **Choose a rating reference.** Open Global Bonds → Ratings & CDS. Use issuer/instrument, agency, country, LEI/ISIN and horizon filters. 2. **Inspect scope and dates.** Read the actual rated name, parent boundary, grade type, original action date and source status. Vehicle-name matches need review. 3. **Inspect a CDS disclosure.** Keep spread, coupon, upfront, currency, UPI, lifecycle and publication/execution dates distinct. Teaching example: credit-fields. **Example:** Keep spread, coupon, upfront, currency, UPI, lifecycle and publication/execution dates distinct. ### Check your understanding Does an old rating record with no withdrawal flag independently certify a current rating? A. Yes B. No; inspect the source status and original dates C. Only for investment grade **Answer B:** The guide and workspace preserve the as-reported reference; current validity is not independently certified. ## Country demographics and population pyramids **Goal:** Read country demographic series, pyramids and archived cultural references in compatible periods and definitions. - Choose a country and topic - Inspect a population pyramid - Read archived social references carefully 1. **Choose a country and topic.** Open Countries and select Demographics for the desired statistical topic. 2. **Inspect a population pyramid.** Use a common source year and understand within-sex versus total-population denominators. 3. **Read archived social references carefully.** Keep original years, wording, overlaps and coverage; affiliation/language/origin data are context, not individual traits or country-risk scores. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Can different age/sex cohort years be silently mixed into a current pyramid? A. Yes B. No; a coherent pyramid requires compatible same-year inputs C. Only if values are percentages **Answer B:** Year and denominator alignment matter; missing cohorts remain missing. ## All 13 Assistant tools: choosing and checking **Goal:** Choose among all 13 Assistant tasks and verify the evidence, plan, support and permitted follow-up actions. - Choose the right task - Inspect inputs and output boundaries - Review the result 1. **Choose the right task.** Open Assistant and select the task that matches your question; the Extended text lists all 13. 2. **Inspect inputs and output boundaries.** Review public context, selected sources, document excerpts, original dates and the preview before choosing Run AI. 3. **Review the result.** Inspect supporting spans, source links and gaps. Native actions and alert drafts require your explicit use of their controls. **Example:** Apply this workflow to one deliberately selected source/entity/period; retain the evidence and any unanswered questions. ### Check your understanding Does opening the Assistant or a guide lesson automatically run the model? A. Yes B. No; generation is an explicit action C. Only in Extended mode **Answer B:** The learning guide is static/client-side; AI generation uses the separate configured account workflow when requested. ## Capability directory - **Summary** (Market Overview): Scan source-qualified market benchmarks, identities, units and observation clocks. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **US curve** (Market Overview): Read the US Treasury curve by tenor and distinguish yields from their changes. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Ratios** (Market Overview): Inspect the defined market/commodity ratios and the sources behind each comparison. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Global yields** (Market Overview): Compare available government-yield references with their country and source dates. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Fear & Greed** (Market Overview): Inspect the cross-asset Fear & Greed view, its composition and coverage. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-fear-greed-market-tone-and-bond-move-units). - **Market Tone** (Market Overview): Read Market Tone as its own stated price/input-based gauge. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-fear-greed-market-tone-and-bond-move-units). - **FX strength** (Market Overview): Inspect currency-strength context without confusing reference rates, returns and economic exposure. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Natural Hazards** (Main workspaces): Inspect observed hazards, warnings, forecasts and historical/reference layers with their source definitions. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-weather-alerts-and-natural-hazards). - **My Watchtower** (Main workspaces): Manage the private personal watch/change/inbox/briefing workflow under the current account. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-my-watchtower). - **Calendar** (Main workspaces): Check event schedules, release values, revisions and source time zones. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-economic-calendar). - **Forecast Lab** (Main workspaces): Review defined market/scenario/energy targets, evidence, historical research and genuine issued outcomes. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-forecast-lab-and-energy-outlook). - **Social** (Main workspaces): Inspect public social-source reporting, original posts, source clocks and uncertainty. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Linked Events** (Main workspaces): Follow related source records, revisions, evidence links and local research context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-linked-events-and-incident-graph). - **Insurance Stress** (Main workspaces): Compare insurance evidence and worldwide hazard/conflict/unrest context without inferring carrier losses. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-insurance-risk-resilience). - **Crypto Intel** (Main workspaces): Explore token/network, protocol and market evidence with exact identities and source scope. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-crypto-intel-and-digital-asset-research). - **Global Bonds** (Main workspaces): Research curves, sovereign/corporate credit, ratings/CDS, derivatives, offshore currencies and funding sources. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-bonds-financial-stress-deposits-and-bank-run-monitor). - **Global Markets** (Main workspaces): Explore worldwide market references, regional views, identities, coverage and exports. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Global Politics** (Main workspaces): Read governance indicators, political news and official/report-based legislative updates by source and period. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-countries-and-global-politics). - **Geopolitical Risk** (Main workspaces): Inspect country/region outlook, fiscal and market context, evidence, catalysts and defined model outputs. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-geopolitical-risk-and-outcome-tree). - **Outcome Tree** (Main workspaces): Explore authored cross-domain scenario pathways, sensitivity, dependence and outcome evidence. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-geopolitical-risk-and-outcome-tree). - **Countries** (Main workspaces): Build country dossiers, compare source series and inspect demographics, profiles and source references. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-countries-and-global-politics). - **Bayes Threat · Ancap Welcomeness** (Main workspaces): Inspect declared country-comparison pillars, missing-input bounds and source-qualified tax/fee details. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-bayes-threat-ancap-welcomeness-and-country-taxes). - **Global Wealth / Affordability** (Main workspaces): Read wealth, consumer-price and affordability evidence with source years, currencies and comparison scope. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-wealth-and-affordability). - **Monetary Predictions** (Main workspaces): Explore monetary/gold/resource evidence and declared scenario or comparison methods. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-monetary-predictions-gold-and-commodity-wars). - **CBDC & Digital Money** (Main workspaces): Compare digital-money programmes and CBDC policy evidence with source-reported development stages. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-sanctions-ownership-and-cbdc-digital-money). - **Mobility Intel** (Main workspaces): Inspect airport, port, rail, border, corridor and transit references/observations with coverage limits. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-marine-and-mobility-intel). - **Global Debt** (Main workspaces): Research sector/country debt evidence and source-anchored optional debt-clock illustrations. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-debt-and-source-anchored-debt-clocks). - **Global Risk Overview** (Main workspaces): Use Global Risk Overview’s country/region evidence map, matrix and embedded Systemic workbench. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-risk-overview-and-systemic-risk). - **Data Q&A** (Main workspaces): Ask supported structured questions and inspect reviewed source values, evidence and native pages. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-data-q-a-ai-analysis-and-oracle). - **AI Analysis** (Main workspaces): Use the entitled deeper AI analysis/report workflow with explicit question, evidence and account scope. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-data-q-a-ai-analysis-and-oracle). - **Incident Graph** (Main workspaces): Inspect source-linked incident context and graph relationships without assuming independent verification. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-linked-events-and-incident-graph). - **Entity Explorer** (Main workspaces): Explore reported entities and relationships; review identifiers and source lineage. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-linked-events-and-incident-graph). - **Sanctions / Ownership** (Main workspaces): Inspect sanctions/ownership references with exact identities, authority, programme and dates. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-sanctions-ownership-and-cbdc-digital-money). - **Cyber Exposure** (Main workspaces): Read vulnerability, incident and network context without equating a reference with a confirmed compromise. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-outages-and-cyber-exposure). - **Satellite & Sensor Data** (Main workspaces): Inspect satellite/sensor references, dated imagery comparisons and epoch-qualified pass calculations. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Infrastructure** (Main workspaces): Explore physical/network layers, street imagery, private GIS, drawing and map briefings. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-infrastructure-and-pacific-subsea-networks). - **War Room** (Main workspaces): Use guided place/dam/history questions or the full investigation, case and terrain/radio tools. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-war-room-monitoring-investigations-and-terrain-tools). - **Commodity Atlas** (Main workspaces): Inspect commodity/site/network reference layers and original source geometry/periods. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-commodity-atlas-commodities-data-and-gas-facilities). - **Commodities Data** (Main workspaces): Use the data-oriented commodity companion for source-defined rows, measures and map context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-commodity-atlas-commodities-data-and-gas-facilities). - **Companies** (Main workspaces): Resolve issuer/listing identities, financial facts, filings, company profiles and separate credit references. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-companies-and-issuer-research). - **Financial Stress** (Main workspaces): Inspect banking, funding, flow, positioning and wider financial-stress evidence and methods. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-bonds-financial-stress-deposits-and-bank-run-monitor). - **Deposits** (Main workspaces): Read deposit/liquidity measures with their definitions, source coverage and reporting periods. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-bonds-financial-stress-deposits-and-bank-run-monitor). - **Prediction Markets** (Main workspaces): Inspect prediction-market contract terms, deadlines, resolution sources and market context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-prediction-markets). - **Cameras** (Main workspaces): Search public camera references, use explicit viewing-wall controls and inspect mapped Flock locations. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-cameras-viewing-walls-and-flock-locations). - **Bank Run Monitor** (Main workspaces): Inspect institution/system banking evidence, model context and the selected published bank CDS reference. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-global-bonds-financial-stress-deposits-and-bank-run-monitor). - **Pro Brief** (Main workspaces): Start with a concise source-dated briefing, then follow important claims to their evidence homes. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-daily-summary-pro-brief-and-signal-board). - **Signal Board** (Main workspaces): Triage displayed signals and inspect the exact measure or source behind a tile. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-daily-summary-pro-brief-and-signal-board). - **Alert Screen** (Main workspaces): Use the configured monitoring/alert display and read its chosen conditions and metrics. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-daily-summary-pro-brief-and-signal-board). - **Watchtower Search** (Main workspaces): Search the retained public corpus and follow qualified results to source records and workspaces. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-watchtower-search). - **Alerts** (Main workspaces): Inspect alerts and rule definitions, including evaluation location, freshness, unknowns and delivery. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-alerts-and-intelligence-rule-studio). - **Portfolio** (Main workspaces): Review owner-scoped holdings/exposure inputs, source quotes, valuation gaps and explicit saves. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-portfolio-personal-relevance-and-exposure-monitoring). - **Reports** (Main workspaces): Read or request an entitled report and preserve its edition, period and evidence manifest. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-reports-and-evidence-backed-briefings). - **Marine** (Main workspaces): Read maritime, port and chokepoint evidence and distinguish movement observations from references. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-marine-and-mobility-intel). - **Air / Aviation** (Main workspaces): Inspect public aircraft/contact observations, replay/context and supported private research/watch features. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-air-aviation). - **Conflict / Military** (Main workspaces): Review source-qualified public conflict/military reports, observations and historical context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-conflict-military). - **Outages** (Main workspaces): Inspect disruption evidence by source, service, geography and original event/publication times. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-outages-and-cyber-exposure). - **Weather Alerts** (Main workspaces): Read official warnings, weather products and source-specific area/validity windows. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-weather-alerts-and-natural-hazards). - **Health / Biosecurity** (Main workspaces): Inspect public-health/biosecurity observations with definitions, denominators, periods and source scope. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-health-biosecurity-and-crime-terror). - **Crime & Terror** (Main workspaces): Read source-qualified crime/security events and statistics without assuming complete reporting. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-health-biosecurity-and-crime-terror). - **Breaking** (News feed): Read the current breaking-news selection and inspect each original report and publication clock. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Economics** (News feed): Focus the newsroom on economic reporting while keeping claims and observations distinct. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Technology** (News feed): Focus on technology reporting and inspect the original claim/source context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Health / Bio** (News feed): Read health/biosecurity reporting with the source’s evidence, dates and terminology. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Natural Disasters** (News feed): Read natural-hazard reporting alongside the relevant official/event workspace. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Search** (News feed): Search the news selection deliberately and open the original source record. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Narratives** (News feed): Follow narrative/reporting patterns while checking source lineage and changes in scope. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-news-social-and-narratives). - **Commodities** (Markets panel): Inspect commodity-market reference rows with instrument, currency, unit and source time. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Indices** (Markets panel): Inspect equity index/benchmark rows; this is distinct from an individual-company universe. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Forex** (Markets panel): Read FX pairs and their reference/change conventions with the relevant source clock. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Crypto** (Markets panel): Read crypto market price rows, then use Crypto Intel for deeper token/network context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Global Stocks** (Markets panel): Explore available global stock references and preserve company/listing-country qualifications. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-market-overview-markets-and-global-markets). - **Live** (Space Weather): Read current space-weather observations with source issue/observation times. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Threats** (Space Weather): Inspect space-weather threat/warning products and their validity windows. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Forecast** (Space Weather): Read forecast products with the source’s horizon and uncertainty rather than treating them as observations. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Aurora** (Space Weather): Inspect aurora-related products with their source and observation/forecast meaning. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Asteroids** (Space Weather): Read asteroid/reference approaches with their stated object/time/model context. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **Sources** (Space Weather): Inspect the space-weather source catalogue and qualifications behind the panel. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-space-weather-and-satellite-sensor-data). - **AI Help Guide** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Contextual Analyst** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Explain risk & change** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Semantic search & Data Q&A** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Multilingual claim extraction** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Country-role review** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Semantic report linking** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Contradictions & revisions** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Cited briefing** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Alert triage & rule drafts** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Document analysis** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Map query assistant** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Forecast evidence review** (Assistant): Use this explicitly requested AI task with selected public evidence or product documentation. Inspect inputs, citations, scope and the current account/provider status. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-assistant-tools). - **Map Layers** (Shared controls): Open the main layer directory; specialist maps also have their own layer controls. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-navigation-and-workspace-controls). - **Evidence inspector** (Shared controls): Inspect the selected item and its source/clock/meaning in the native evidence pane. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-reading-data-correctly). - **Timeline** (Shared controls): Inspect current timeline/replay context with the source’s own event definitions. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-replay-saved-work-and-exports). - **Commands** (Shared controls): Find supported native tools and navigation entries by name. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-navigation-and-workspace-controls). - **Workspace fullscreen** (Shared controls): Expand a current workspace while retaining the same native view. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-navigation-and-workspace-controls). - **Customize Workspace** (Shared controls): Review supported panel, layout and preference controls before saving or resetting. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-navigation-and-workspace-controls). - **API Connections & Add-ons** (Shared controls): Configure eligible owned provider connections through the native account controls. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-api-connections-and-ai-agent-mcp-access). - **Hosted AI Agent MCP** (Shared controls): Create an appropriately scoped token and discover the live reviewed dataset catalogue. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-api-connections-and-ai-agent-mcp-access). - **Report an issue** (Shared controls): Describe the affected workspace, action, time and visible error using native reporting/support. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-troubleshooting-and-reporting-a-problem). - **Learning progress** (Shared controls): Resume public lessons and practice checks; guide progress does not grant account permissions. [Lesson](https://www.watchtower.technology/watchtower/guide.html#simple/extended-navigation-and-workspace-controls). ## Glossary - **Advanced:** The broader capability-gated specialist workspace, distinct from the public brief. - **Alert:** A particular monitoring condition/result. Always identify its evaluator and delivery channel. - **API:** A programmatic interface; availability of a route does not grant every source licence. - **Basis point (bp/bps):** One hundredth of a percentage point. A 4.00% to 4.10% yield move is 10 bps. - **CAP:** Common Alerting Protocol. A message is an issuing product, not necessarily one distinct physical event. - **Canonical home:** The main workspace for a data family; other views can link or summarise it. - **Catalogue:** Registered interfaces, fields, sources or references; registration differs from usable current data. - **Collected / checked:** Watchtower's retrieval or verification clock, not automatically the original observation time. - **Confidence / support:** A source/model-specific concept. Read its definition; it is not a universal probability of truth. - **Coverage:** Which places, times, entities or source records a dataset actually supports. - **CSV:** A tabular export. Preserve units, period, source and selection scope. - **Daily bar:** A source trading-session record. Its timestamp is not necessarily a current last-trade clock. - **Derived:** Calculated from stated inputs rather than separately observed. - **Exposure:** A defined relationship to an asset, place or event; association alone is not measured loss. - **Fixing:** A dated reference exchange-rate determination; distinct from an executable live quote. - **Forecast horizon:** The exact future window or session count for a specified target. - **Gated / ineligible:** A required access, source, definition, freshness or evidence condition is not met. - **GeoJSON:** A geographic export format; geometry still needs its source and precision label. - **Heuristic:** An authored screening rule or transformation, not necessarily an empirically calibrated prediction. - **Immutable edition / issuance:** A record whose original content/identity is retained; corrections use separate versions or outcomes. - **JSON Pointer:** A path such as /sources/0 selecting a field/subtree in a structured response. - **Last known / retained:** Previously accepted evidence retained with its original clocks and state. - **Locality reference:** Approximate place context, not a surveyed site or exact event position. - **MCP:** Model Context Protocol: a way for an authorised AI client to discover/call the reviewed tools. - **Missing / null:** No qualified value supplied. It is not a numerical zero. - **Model version:** The definition/calculation identity needed to compare or reproduce an output. - **Nominal / real / PPP:** Current monetary units, inflation-adjusted values and purchasing-power comparisons; not interchangeable. - **Observation period:** The date/month/quarter/year or interval a statistic describes. - **Owner-scoped:** Bound to the verified account rather than shared across signed-in users. - **Percent / percentage point:** A relative ratio/change versus an arithmetic difference between percentages. - **Prospective:** Actually issued before the target outcome, with its real issue time and frozen evidence. - **Published-vintage replay:** Historical reconstruction using currently available historical data, which may contain revisions. - **Reference-only:** A useful directory/method/source link without a qualified integrated numerical feed. - **Replay:** A captured historical application/source context; it is not an instruction to fill gaps with live data. - **Resolution:** The defined process that records whether a forecast's exact target occurred with sufficient evidence. - **Scenario / sensitivity:** A conditional assumption or changed-input experiment, not automatically a confidence interval. - **Snapshot:** A captured generation used for coherent reads; native source and MCP snapshots can be separate. - **Source-revised:** A source change affects compatibility with a frozen record; scoring can be withheld. - **Stale / partial:** Outside the source-age requirement or incomplete in the declared scope. - **Stock / flow:** A balance at a point in time versus an amount measured over an interval. - **TVL / volume / fees / revenue:** Distinct digital-asset measures that should not be added or substituted without a defined basis. - **Watchlist:** A saved selection. Its storage, evaluation and notification behaviour depends on the feature. - **Yield:** A rate for the specified instrument/convention, not its price return. - **Basis point:** One hundredth of a percentage point. 100 bps equals 1 percentage point. - **CDS spread:** A reported credit-derivative spread field with its own contract, source time and price notation. - **Coupon:** A contractual fixed payment rate; it is not automatically the observed market spread. - **Upfront payment:** A separately reported monetary payment, not a par spread or probability. - **LEI:** A legal-entity identifier. Check the source entity and parent boundary rather than relying on a similar name. - **ISIN:** A securities identifier for a particular instrument; not automatically an issuer identity. - **UPI:** A derivative product identifier; it is not a legal-entity identifier. - **Prospective forecast:** A forecast actually issued before its outcome, under a frozen target/input definition. - **Current-vintage backtest:** Historical research reconstructed using a stated data vintage; not automatically an issued live forecast. - **Source record:** A published/retained row or document; multiple records can describe the same event. - **Learning progress:** Your local lesson/check history. It is not a credential, access grant or proof of source/model accuracy. - **Unknown:** An unestablished value or condition, distinct from a reported zero or known false. - **National rating scale:** An agency’s scope-specific ranking system; it is not automatically interchangeable with a global scale.