# Straits Live – Strait of Hormuz Daily Situation Brief

> Straits Live – Strait of Hormuz Daily Situation Brief is a paid API for AI agents from straits.live, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns an AI-generated structured JSON situation brief for the Strait of Hormuz — including prose summary, bullet points, and key figures — either for the latest date or a specified archive date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://straits.live/api/premium/brief
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/straits-live-strait-of-hormuz-daily-situation-brief-21d1c6b9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WF9vqCVqvmZ2CGgNYaQEy

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 straits-live-strait-of-hormuz-daily-situation-brief-21d1c6b9
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the latest Strait of Hormuz situation brief for today, or if I want a specific day's report, say April 15 2025, grab that archived one instead?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a daily, structured, AI-synthesized intelligence brief specifically about the Strait of Hormuz — including shipping, military, and geopolitical developments — either the most current or from a specific archived date. Prefer this over general news APIs when you need a focused, pre-structured JSON output rather than raw headlines.

## Known failure modes

- Requested date has no archived brief (date out of range or too far in past) — likely returns 404 or empty result
- Invalid date format provided — schema validation error
- Payment not processed or x402 authorization missing — 402 Payment Required
- Service temporarily unavailable or AI generation failure — 5xx error

## How this service works

AI-assisted Strait of Hormuz daily situation brief as structured JSON: prose summary, bullets, and key figures, by date or latest, with archive access by date.

## Output

A structured JSON object containing an AI-generated daily situation brief for the Strait of Hormuz, including a prose narrative summary, a list of bullet-point highlights, and key figures or actors of note, keyed to the requested date or the most recent available date.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "YYYY-MM-DD; omit for the latest brief"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-07-08",
  "schema": "https://straits.live/api/premium/brief",
  "bullets": [
   "..."
  ],
  "summary": "..."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/straits-live-strait-of-hormuz-daily-situation-brief-21d1c6b9/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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