Hormuz Strait Monitor

⚠️ **Trading warning / Avertissement trading** : informational only, not investment advice. A chokepoint status board describes shipping conditions, not future oil prices: a calm reading can reverse within hours of a headline, and trading energy on a single dashboard carries a real risk of loss. No output here is a promise of return. Curated by Skill Harbor: a read-only reader for the Hormuz Strait Monitor dashboard, built for the questions that spike whenever the Persian Gulf makes the news. One public API call, no authentication, returns the strait's status (open, restricted or closed, and since when), ship traffic (current transits, the last 24 hours and the share of normal), the Brent price with its 24-hour change, stranded vessels by type, war-risk insurance level and premium with its multiplier over normal, cargo throughput in deadweight tonnage versus average, the diplomatic picture, a crisis timeline, VLCC tanker freight rates against their pre-crisis baseline, the latest news, and a global trade impact block (share of world oil at risk, estimated daily cost in billions, most affected regions, LNG impact and alternative routes). The skill presents a general briefing across all sections, zooms into the section asked about, calls out abnormal values (transits below 80 percent or above 120 percent of normal) and adds a risk reading keyed to the insurance level, from NORMAL through EXTREME. From the himself65/finance-skills repository (MIT). Honest caveats: the data comes from a single third-party dashboard, hormuzstraitmonitor.com, and can lag or go unavailable; the skill says so and points you to the site directly when the API fails; daily cost and at-risk figures are the monitor's estimates, not measured facts; and a status snapshot is only as fresh as its timestamp, which the skill is told to show. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.