What it does Crucix is a Node.js server that polls 27 public data sources — satellite fire detection, radiation levels, flight tracking, conflict events, economic indicators, market prices — every 15 minutes. It renders everything on a browser dashboard with a 3D globe, flat map, news ticker, and risk gauges. Add API keys for Telegram or Discord and it pushes tiered alerts (FLASH / PRIORITY / ROUTINE) when signals change. Add an LLM and it will chat back, generate trade ideas, and classify alerts with cross-domain correlation.

The interesting bit The “sweep delta” panel: instead of drowning you in raw feeds, Crucix computes what actually changed since the last run — escalations, de-escalations, new signals — and surfaces only the diff. That turns a firehose of OSINT into something you can scan in seconds. The LLM layer is optional and gracefully degrades to rule-based alerting if your API key expires or the provider is down.

Key highlights

• Single dependency: Express. Everything else is native Node.js 22+ (fetch, ESM, top-level await).
• 3D WebGL globe with flight corridor arcs, plus a “VISUALS LITE” mode that strips animations for mobile or low-end hardware.
• Two-way Telegram and Discord bots: /brief, /sweep, /status, plus portfolio tracking if you wire in Alpaca.
• Docker-ready with volume-mounted persistence in ./runs/.
• AGPL v3. No cloud, no telemetry, no subscription. The README includes a token scam warning, which is either admirable transparency or a sign of a community that needed the reminder.

Caveats

• The dashboard is empty for 30–60 seconds on first load while the initial sweep runs; the README admits this and suggests patience.
• npm run dev can fail silently on Windows PowerShell; the workaround is running node --trace-warnings server.mjs directly or using a diagnostic script.
• Three API keys (FRED, NASA FIRMS, EIA) are labeled “required for best results” — not strictly mandatory, but the economic and satellite data is significantly degraded without them.

Verdict Worth a spin if you are an OSINT hobbyist, a trader who distrusts SaaS dashboards, or a journalist who wants to self-host a world-monitoring stack. Skip it if you need enterprise SLAs, collaborative editing, or anything that isn’t fundamentally “read-only monitoring with chatbot garnish.”