INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

hormuz_risk_premium

Strait of Hormuz war-risk transit premium nowcast: a live MODELED war-risk insurance multiple (Nx over the peace baseline, on the standard 1x-16x scale) for moving a tanker through the strait, recomputed every 5 minutes from throughput deviation (IMF PortWatch), the escalation forecast (Polymarket + Kalshi + Manifold + Brent-WTI spread), crude implied volatility (OVX), and event pressure (GDELT + PGSA).

straits.livenone authenticationAvailability not checked

Input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent endpoint

straits.live

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.straits-live]
url = "https://straits.live/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "straits-live": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://straits.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: straits-live
Remote MCP URL: https://straits.live/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "straits-live": {
      "url": "https://straits.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "straits-live": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://straits.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "straits-live",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://straits.live/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

hormuz_vessels — Strait of Hormuz per-vessel intelligence: the live-AIS vessel manifest (MMSI-keyed, flag from the MMSI MID), OFAC-sanctioned vessels currently in the Persian Gulf window, per-vessel risk bands, latest raw AIS positions, the AIS-dark vessel list, and OFAC + UK sanctions reference-list sizes (per-IMO multi-body detail via hormuz_vessel_dossier).
hormuz_history — Strait of Hormuz historical series as one contract: hourly stranded-vessel (stranded) and AIS-dark (ais-gaps) counts up to a full year (free tier: 30 days and none), the 5-minute Hormuz Index (index-5min, days 1-30), and daily transit counts (transits) enriched with the 7-day moving average, pre-crisis-baseline deviation, and reopening-threshold headroom.
hormuz_snapshot — Everything the Strait of Hormuz crisis monitor knows in one call: verdict, oil, transits, insurance, carriers, pipelines, indices, prediction markets, events, full daily brief.
hormuz_brief — AI-assisted Strait of Hormuz daily situation brief as structured JSON: prose summary, bullets, and key figures, by date or latest.
hormuz_vessel_dossier — Single Strait of Hormuz vessel sanctions + risk dossier by IMO: the unified multi-body sanctions view (US OFAC and the UK/FCDO list, the UK row adding owner/operator, flag, tonnage, ship type, year built, and Date Designated), merged identity, per-vessel risk band, and dark-activity (AIS-gap) record.
hormuz_export — Bulk Strait of Hormuz history export: every requested series (index-5min, stranded, ais-gaps, transits) at full retained history in one call as JSON, with the transit series carrying per-day analytics (7-day MA, baseline deviation, reopening-threshold headroom).
hormuz_flags — Strait of Hormuz flag rollup: the flag states of the live-AIS vessel population ranked by vessel count, each with a per-flag sanctioned tally, plus distinct-flag count and sanctioned share.
hormuz_risk_screen — Strait of Hormuz shadow-fleet risk screen: the live-AIS vessel population ranked worst-first, each hull with its risk band, the typed reasons behind it (ofac_sdn, ais_dark, foc_tanker, imo_spoofed), and which sanctions bodies list it (US OFAC and/or UK/FCDO).