Market answers without the detour

When you ask Mu what is moving in markets, the goal is to get you the data, not to walk through a planning loop. Recently we tightened how the agent handles market-mover questions so that the ask-to-answer path is shorter. The change is small in code but noticeable in use: instead of the assistant mapping out a generic sequence and then fetching, it now recognises the intent and goes straight to the market service. The result is that the answer arrives faster, with less intermediary chatter.

The refinement is not about speed records or benchmark wins. It is about reducing friction in a common, concrete case. If you type “what is driving the S&P today” or “top movers this morning”, Mu now routes that directly rather than spending cycles on planning steps that add no value. The agent still plans for more complex or ambiguous requests, but for market movers the detour is gone. That is what we want – the assistant should vanish into the answer.

Of course, a trade-off exists. If your question is vague or mixes multiple domains, Mu will still ask clarifying questions rather than guess. The direct path only applies when the intent is clearly a market-mover query. That honesty matters more than a false sense of speed. Over time we will refine similar shortcuts for other common patterns – weather, headlines, mail summaries – always with the same principle: cut the planning when the ask is plain. No hype, just a shorter line between your question and the data you need.