Market answers without the detour

If you ask Mu what is moving in markets, the answer used to come after a planning step that considered all the possible ways to handle a general question. That step was thorough, but for a straightforward market query it added a half-second of unnecessary indirection. We have since refined the planning for market-mover questions so that the path to the data is more direct. The change is small, but it reduces friction in the ask-to-answer loop for one of the most common everyday requests.

The idea is plain: you ask in natural language, and Mu calls the right service — here the markets service — and returns a single answer. Previously the agent would plan a generic sequence, check capabilities, then decide to call the markets endpoint. Now for questions that clearly ask what is moving, prices, or sector leaders, the planning is narrower from the start. The result is a faster, more immediate response without a detour through unnecessary reasoning.

This is not a benchmark story or a claim about winning some speed test. It is an incremental refinement that makes a practical difference for anyone who uses Mu to check markets regularly, especially during active hours when timeliness matters. It fits Mu’s broader approach: no dark patterns, no attention farming, just a tool that reduces the distance between thought and answer.