Hormuz Strait MonitorFinance Skill
A three-file guide maps dashboard fields to a shipping and energy-risk briefing. It requests source links and timestamps, but risk labels, cost estimates and throughput measures need independent validation. The current API request returned HTTP 403. Optional installation runs external code and writes files; no installation or live status accuracy was tested.
- Assessment score
- 79/100
- Snapshot risk
- Medium
- Audit conclusion
- Needs review
How the assessment score works
Pineify weights evidence recorded from the captured files: Skill structure 15%, Instruction clarity 20%, Dependency transparency 20%, Permission transparency 20%, Safety guardrails 15%, Finance task fit 10%. Each signal receives full credit for Yes, one-quarter credit for unknown, and none for No.
The score is not an output accuracy test or user rating. Read the findings and financial assumptions even when the score is high. Risk labels summarize recorded permissions and findings; they do not measure investment risk or certify that installation is safe.
Discovery
What this Skill helps an agent do.
Use the tasks and topics below to judge whether the captured workflow fits your question. Read its findings, dependencies and data requirements before relying on an output.
Domains and assets
Topics
Trust
Evidence from the captured directory.
This content snapshot assessment does not certify the repository, current files, or installation environment. "Not verified" means the captured files did not support a Yes or No conclusion.
License
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT License.
Review state
- Automated review
- Automated review
- Install tested
- No
- Human reviewed
- Not verified
Snapshot
- Files reviewed
- 3
- Captured
- 2026-07-29 07:31 UTC
- Snapshot ID
- fsh-hormuz-strait-2026-07-29-001
Permissions
FilesystemRead
Not verifiedThe dashboard query does not read local files, but the optional npx installer is not included in the snapshot; its file access was not reviewed.
FilesystemWrite
YesThe README offers npx plugin or skill installation, which writes installed files. The subsequent dashboard GET request is read-only.
NetworkAccess
YesThe skill uses curl to fetch data from hormuzstraitmonitor.com.
ShellExecution
YesThe skill instructs the agent to use curl for the API call.
CodeExecution
YesThe README invokes npx installers in addition to the curl data request. Those external installers were not executed or inspected.
ExternalCredentials
NoThe captured dashboard request includes no credentials. The current unauthenticated request returned HTTP 403, so current availability was not established.
Dependencies
curl
Available in shell
Shell tool for the HTTP GET request to the public dashboard API.
Data sources named by the Skill
Hormuz Strait Monitor API
Third-party dashboard described by the snapshot as a public status and shipping-data feed. Current request returned HTTP 403; field accuracy, freshness and provenance were not verified.
Snapshot assessment
79/100
Pineify Finance Skill snapshot assessment, version 1.0.0. Generated 2026-10-20 00:00 UTC.
Medium risk · Needs review
Skill structure
100/100Instruction clarity
100/100Dependency transparency
45/100Permission transparency
75/100Safety guardrails
75/100Finance task fit
85/100Audit findings
Medium
A Cape route does not bypass Hormuz for a vessel inside the Gulf
The linked dashboard describes Cape rerouting. EIA distinguishes Cape routes around the Red Sea and Suez from the limited pipeline alternatives to Hormuz. Do not repeat an alternative-route label as a feasible escape for a vessel still inside the Persian Gulf; verify origin, destination, infrastructure and available capacity.
Medium
Dashboard classifications need independent verification
The guide equates NORMAL insurance with normal operations and EXTREME with effective closure. These are unsupported interpretation rules, not proof of navigation status. Confirm shipping conditions with current maritime authorities, dated source reports and the underlying observation times; a response timestamp alone does not establish freshness. The API returned HTTP 403 during this review.
Medium
Read-only retrieval does not describe installation
The optional README npx commands run external installers and write files; their behavior is outside the captured directory. A shell-based curl recipe also does not demonstrate compatibility with every hosted agent. No installation was performed.
Medium
Dependency manifest is absent from the snapshot
No requirements.txt or equivalent manifest is included in the captured directory.
Medium
Capacity, economic scenarios and observed disruption differ
Deadweight capacity includes more than cargo and does not itself measure loaded cargo moved. Require the throughput methodology before interpreting DWT totals. Oil-price changes are not an isolated estimate of the strait effect; daily economic costs, supply shares and reserve coverage require dated sources, denominators and scenario assumptions. Preserve tanker-rate units: Worldscale and USD per day are different measures.
Low
No explicit user checkpoints
The skill fetches and presents data directly without defining user confirmation checkpoints.
Sources and relations
Context around this Skill.
Repository
himself65/finance-skills
topic
Geopolitical risk
topic
Energy markets
topic
Shipping chokepoints
agent
Claude Code
collection
Data providers
guide
Reviewing finance skills before install
Registry
Read this record as data.
The public record includes the page-safe snapshot, evidence, assessment, taxonomy, and relations. Internal revision fields stay outside the public projection.
- Record ID
- github:himself65/finance-skills:plugins/data-providers/skills/hormuz-strait
- Snapshot ID
- fsh-hormuz-strait-2026-07-29-001