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I need to understand whether institutional investors are hedging or adding leverage ahead of earnings season."},{"title":"Macro risk dashboard update","prompt":"Update my macro risk dashboard — pull the latest VIX asset manager positioning intelligence from Edge Agents so I can see if there's a risk-off signal in how institutions are positioned on volatility."},{"title":"Contradictions in VIX positioning","prompt":"I'm seeing mixed signals in the market. Can you fetch the Edge Agents VIX positioning report and highlight any contradictions in how asset managers are positioned on volatility right now?"}],"resultDescription":"Returns a structured JSON report with: a quality assessment (status and confidence level), an analysis block (asset family, intent tags like risk/leverage/volatility, and a narrative summary of current VIX asset manager positioning), evidence metadata (assets covered, data policy, sources), provenance details (issuer URL, signed flag), generation timestamp, schema version, and a disclaimer clarifying the research is not investment advice.","failureModes":["Payment not received or insufficient USDC — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required","Data unavailable or stale — report states coverage and source freshness limitations explicitly","No live positioning data — summary field reflects unavailability rather than fabricating data","Malformed request — returns error if required query parameters are missing or invalid"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need point-in-time, evidence-backed analysis of VIX futures positioning specifically from asset managers, with explicit provenance and contradiction tracking. 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