# Strait of Hormuz Crisis Monitor — Full Snapshot

> Strait of Hormuz Crisis Monitor — Full Snapshot is a paid API for AI agents from straits.live, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a comprehensive, single-call snapshot of the Strait of Hormuz situation including risk verdict, oil prices, vessel transits, insurance rates, carrier status, pipeline data, market indices, prediction markets, events, and a full daily brief.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://straits.live/api/premium/snapshot
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-monitor-full-snapshot-e42a4f00
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Fwc061kQEa2C-qu129a3B

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability strait-of-hormuz-crisis-monitor-full-snapshot-e42a4f00
```

Example prompt: Give me everything the Strait of Hormuz crisis monitor has right now — risk verdict, oil prices, vessel transits, insurance rates, carrier status, pipelines, market indices, prediction markets, any active events, and the full daily brief, all in one shot.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a single comprehensive call covering all Strait of Hormuz intelligence dimensions simultaneously — risk verdict, oil, shipping, insurance, pipelines, indices, prediction markets, and the full daily brief. Prefer this over sibling endpoints (per-vessel intelligence or daily brief alone) when you want the full aggregated picture without making multiple calls.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or insufficient — 402 Payment Required
- API temporarily unavailable — 503 Service Unavailable
- Stale data if upstream AIS or market feeds are delayed
- Rate limiting if called too frequently

## How this service works

Everything the Strait of Hormuz crisis monitor knows in one call: verdict, oil, transits, insurance, carriers, pipelines, indices, prediction markets, events, full daily brief.

## Output

A comprehensive JSON snapshot containing the current Hormuz risk verdict, oil market data, vessel transit manifest, war-risk insurance rates, carrier operational status, pipeline data, financial indices, prediction market probabilities, geopolitical events, and a full structured daily situation brief with prose summary and bullet points.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "oil": {
   "wti": 71.96,
   "brent": 76.4
  },
  "schema": "https://straits.live/api/premium/snapshot",
  "status": "restricted",
  "hormuzIndex": {
   "crisisPressure": {
    "band": "extreme",
    "value": 89
   },
   "escalationForecast": {
    "band": "high",
    "value": 61
   }
  },
  "dailyTransits": {
   "date": "2026-07-08",
   "nTotal": 2,
   "preCrisisBaselineMedian": 88
  },
  "insuranceMultiple": 8
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-monitor-full-snapshot-e42a4f00/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from straits.live](https://www.zero.xyz/host/straits.live/llms.txt)