NoiseFloor — market attention and evidence checks

NoiseFloor

What changed, what is repeated, and what can the evidence support?

A modular, offline toolkit for research desks, monitoring systems and AI agents. Python 3.9+, MIT, zero runtime dependencies. The same pure functions work through Python, JSON CLI, REST and MCP.

NoiseFloor checks market observations, groups repeated headlines, exposes data gaps and grades forecasts. It does not fetch feeds, call a model, retain your portfolio or execute trades.

Start with your research task

Use Python or the CLI locally for private observations. The browser workbench submits the selected example only when you run it; its bundled examples are synthetic. Public financial-source retrieval is a separate workflow in the Financial Evidence connection guide.

Release 0.4.0 introduced correlation spectra, shared-factor concentration, an experimental correlation-cleaning candidate and rolling diagnostics, plus a separate synthetic Dyson Brownian-motion simulator. See the product applications and methods.

Try the live correlation and Dyson workbench with explicitly synthetic examples for LiquiLens, Seiche, Undertow, Riptide, Palimpsest and trading-agent research. The API client kit includes OpenAPI, Postman, Bruno, HTTP and local Python workflows. Browser requests go to the public service only when you run them; use Python locally for private panels.

Get your first result

Install the package; no repository checkout, API key or model is required:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade noisefloor

noisefloor capabilities

Run this Python example with two explicitly synthetic headlines. The fixed observation clock makes the result reproducible:

import json

from pathlib import Path from noisefloor import narrative

primary = { "id": "synthetic-filing", "title": "Example Bank reports deposit growth of 5 percent", "published_at": "2026-10-08T10:00:00Z", "entities": ["EXAMPLE-BANK"], "source": {"id": "synthetic-issuer", "kind": "primary"}, } copy = { primary, "id": "synthetic-headline", "source": {"id": "synthetic-wire", "kind": "reporting"}, } request = { "events": [primary, copy], "as_of": "2026-10-08T12:00:00Z", "focus": ["EXAMPLE-BANK"], } report = narrative.triage(request) print(len(report["events"]), len(report["attention_queue"])) # 2 retained, 1 to review print(report"counts") # 1 repeated headline Path("narrative.json").write_text(json.dumps(request), encoding="utf-8")

Both original events remain in the report. Repeated wording is grouped; it does not establish truth, independent confirmation or permission to trade. Source kinds and entity assignments are supplied by the caller.

The example also writes narrative.json, which you can pass to the installed CLI:

noisefloor narrative narrative.json

Connect your financial research

NoiseFloor analyzes inputs you supply. These products provide separate routes to financial context and evidence; consult each product's coverage and source rights before bringing observations into a local assessment.

Use the connection guide to choose a hosted API or MCP route. Installing NoiseFloor does not subscribe you to feeds, enable source collection or send your local observations to those products.

Market attention

Each series carries its identity, units, source, declared reuse permission, observation times and freshness limit. Optional availability clocks retain what the caller knew at the time. Missing data stays missing.

The engine checks age, future timestamps, duplicate clocks, contiguous history and measurement coverage. Prices become log returns; rates and spreads retain their units. It never calculates a return across a declared gap. An explicit policy identifies persistent departures, isolated latest moves and volatility expansion. Correlated movements are visible without being counted as independent confirmation.

Each series returns review, watch, no_supported_departure or insufficient_visibility, with sources and reasons. These are review priorities, not significance tests or trading signals. A quiet diagnostic does not prove a movement is noise. Source permissions are caller declarations, not a licensing audit. Market calendars, corporate actions and materiality require caller review. Trading volume is an economic observation, not automatically a sample denominator.

News and narrative attention

NoiseFloor groups similar wording for the same declared entities, keeps changed quantities and explicit denials separate, records every original event and produces a bounded queue. Differing reports with the same declared event key are highlighted for review. Caller-declared primary sources rank before commentary; repetition alone never increases priority.

This is wording/relevance triage, not fact checking, sentiment prediction or proof of independent corroboration. Deferred and filtered items remain available. An empty queue does not certify a quiet market. Titles are data, never instructions.

Statistical building blocks

from noisefloor import experiment, change, forecast, multiple

experiment.compare(500, 5000, 750, 5000) change.scan([1., 2., 1., 2., 1., 2., 1., 2., 8., 9.]) forecast.score([float(x) for x in range(40)])

Only after an independently justified e-value construction:

multiple.select({"metric_a": 25.0, "metric_b": 1.0}, valid_evalues=True)

valid_evalues=True is a declaration, not certification. A single-family e-BH guarantee does not justify repeatedly selecting families or unqualified peeking. Version 0.3 corrects overstated guarantees in 0.2; read the methods and migration notes.

AI agents and HTTP

{"mcpServers":{"noisefloor":{"command":"uvx","args":["--from","noisefloor","noisefloor-mcp"]}}}

Ten MCP tools: market_assessment, narrative_triage, ab_test, did_it_change, real_or_sampling, forecast_next, score_forecasts, which_metrics_matter, spectral_assessment, dyson_reference. Results include structured JSON. The spectral assessment is descriptive research; the Dyson reference is a synthetic simulation, not a fitted market model.

noisefloor-mcp-http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8792

In another terminal, use the narrative.json written by the Python example:

curl http://127.0.0.1:8792/v1/capabilities

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @narrative.json http://127.0.0.1:8792/v1/narrative/triage

REST: POST /v1/market/assess, POST /v1/narrative/triage, POST /v1/spectral/assess, POST /v1/research/dyson. The hosted API base is https://api.seiche.info/noisefloor; the hosted MCP endpoint is https://api.seiche.info/noisefloor/mcp. Research routes: POST /v1/spectral/assess, POST /v1/research/dyson. Discovery: GET /v1/capabilities, GET /openapi.json; MCP: POST /mcp. Self-host behind your TLS/authentication and quota layer. HTTP logs bounded operation/outcome labels, not submitted observations, titles or request targets.

Hosted MCP: https://api.seiche.info/noisefloor/mcp. Check its health/version and tool list before assuming a package release is deployed there. Package, registry and host acceptance are separate states.

mcp-name: io.github.beepboop2025/noisefloor

Modular by design

Bring permitted data through the offline adapters. The Financial Evidence adapter preserves institution, metric, unit, source, rights and knowledge clocks without importing its SDK. LiquiLens institution evidence, Seiche funding, Undertow liquidity and Palimpsest coverage can remain separate while using common diagnostics. This does not imply those products already run this release.

• Architecture and extension contracts
• Research workflows
• Correlation spectra, Dyson reference and product applications
• Adapters, frameworks and deployment recipes
• Release procedure

Request/policy SHA-256 digests support identity checks and replay; they are not signatures or proof of source truth. No runtime network, model, database or paid API dependency is required.

Verification

For contributors working from a source checkout:

pip install -e '.[dev]'

pytest -q

Tests cover issued/scored forecast parity, invalid statistical composition, stale/future/missing observations, transforms, coverage shifts, repeated and confl