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chokepoint-check

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Check shipping disruption at maritime chokepoints such as Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca and Panama - vessel transits today, week-over-week change, risk level and incidents - from World Monitor. Use when the user asks whether a strait or canal is disrupted, congested or safe for shipping.

Skill

Launcher coming soon
Without the launcher
git clone https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor.git
cd worldmonitor
git checkout 8a5303d035e2c75c0333502ab33378b576094ded

Then copy worldmonitor/claude-plugin/skills/chokepoint-check into your app's skills folder, for example .claude/skills/chokepoint-check.

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name: chokepoint-check description: Check shipping disruption at maritime chokepoints such as Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca and Panama - vessel transits today, week-over-week change, risk level and incidents - from World Monitor. Use when the user asks whether a strait or canal is disrupted, congested or safe for shipping.

Chokepoint check

Report the current state of one or all of the 13 maritime chokepoints World Monitor tracks.

Tools

Tool Access
get_chokepoint_status free-account
get_energy_intelligence free-account

Steps

  1. Call get_chokepoint_status with dataset: ["transit-summaries"]. Add chokepoint with a lowercase name fragment ("hormuz", "suez", "malacca", "bab", "panama") when the user names one.
  2. For each chokepoint report today's transits (total, tanker and cargo), the week-over-week change, the risk level and incidents in the last seven days. The tool withholds the risk narrative (riskSummary is always empty); do not write one, and do not read the empty field as low risk.
  3. When the user asks about oil or gas supply, also call get_energy_intelligence and add active disruptions that mention the chokepoint.

Rules

  • Transit counts come from vessel position data and are flagged stale after 30 minutes. State the observation time, and say so plainly when the data is stale or dataAvailable is false.
  • Compare against the week-over-week figure in the data. Do not invent a historical baseline.
  • Do not give routing, insurance or trading advice.