Hormuz Strait Watch MCP - Tactical maritime situation dashboard for the Strait of Hormuz, delivered as an MCP App for ChatGPT / Claude. Built with mcp-use & deployed on Manufact MCP Cloud
Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.
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> Tactical maritime situation dashboard for the Strait of Hormuz — two interactive Leaflet map widgets + three JSON tools, delivered as a single MCP endpoint. Fuses IMF PortWatch chokepoint statistics with live AIS vessel positions into one picture you can query in natural language from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP‑Apps client.
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Packing does not respect root-level ignore files in workspaces
### Impact `npm pack` ignores root-level `.gitignore` & `.npmignore` file exclusion directives when run in a workspace or with a workspace flag (ie. `--workspaces`, `--workspace=<name>`). Anyone who has run `npm pack` or `npm publish` with workspaces, as of [v7.9.0](https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v7.9.0) & [v7.13.0](https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v7.13.0) respectively, may be affected and have published files into the npm registry they did not intend to include. ### Patch - Up
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM
An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 5.7.0" and therefore automatically installed by an "npm upgrade -g npm" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog without mention of pre-release status). It might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a "correctMkdir" issue.
Local Privilege Escalation in npm
Affected versions of `npm` use predictable temporary file names during archive unpacking. If an attacker can create a symbolic link at the location of one of these temporary file names, the attacker can arbitrarily write to any file that the user which owns the `npm` process has permission to write to, potentially resulting in local privilege escalation. ## Recommendation Update to version 1.3.3 or later.
npm CLI exposing sensitive information through logs
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.14.6 are vulnerable to an information exposure vulnerability through log files. The CLI supports URLs like `<protocol>://[<user>[:<password>]@]<hostname>[:<port>][:][/]<path>`. The password value is not redacted and is printed to stdout and also to any generated log files.
npm Vulnerable to Global node_modules Binary Overwrite
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to a Global node_modules Binary Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a `serve` binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a `serve` binary would overwrite the first binary. This will not overwrite system binaries but only binaries put into the global node_modules directory. This b
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Tactical maritime situation dashboard for the Strait of Hormuz — two interactive Leaflet map widgets + three JSON tools, delivered as a single MCP endpoint. Fuses IMF PortWatch chokepoint statistics with live AIS vessel positions into one picture you can query in natural language from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP‑Apps client.
Ask it: "Is Hormuz open right now?" · "What ships are at Fujairah?" · "Where does Hormuz rank against Suez and Malacca today?"
show-hormuz-situation — strait overviewEverything you need to answer "what's happening in Hormuz?" in a single pannable map: IMF disruption polygon, 65 Gulf ports color‑coded by country and sized by annual traffic, 150 live AIS vessels inside the strait bbox, a 30‑day transit sparkline, telemetry chips (transits vs. historical baseline, Δ‑below‑normal, live vessel count), and a RED/ORANGE/GREEN alert banner driven by IMF PortWatch.

show-port-live-map — single-port AIS reconFocused radius scan around any Gulf port. Crosshair marker, scan ring, every vessel inside the radius (heading, type, stale flag), ordered ledger sorted by range, and a composition breakdown by vessel class.

All 5 tools visible in the mcp-use Inspector:

| Tool | Kind | Description |
|---|---|---|
show-hormuz-situation | widget | Primary dashboard — full strait overview with live AIS, ports, disruptions, trend. |
show-port-live-map | widget | Radius-scan AIS map around one port (e.g. port362 Fujairah, port744 Jebel Ali, port306 Dubai). |
get-hormuz-disruptions | JSON | Active/recent IMF trade‑disruption events affecting Hormuz with alert level, dates, description. |
get-port-traffic | JSON | Daily ship‑call history for one Gulf port with per‑vessel‑type breakdown. |
compare-chokepoints | JSON | Latest daily transits across all 28 global chokepoints, rankable by total or by vessel type. |
IMF PortWatch — live ArcGIS FeatureServer layers. No API key, no rate limits in normal use, ~3–7 day reporting lag, cached 1h in process.
| Layer | Used for |
|---|---|
Daily_Chokepoints_Data | Daily transit counts for 28 global chokepoints (Hormuz = chokepoint6). |
PortWatch_chokepoints_database | Historical baseline (annual totals by vessel type). |
portwatch_disruptions_database | Active/historical trade‑disruption events with alert level + polygon geometry. |
PortWatch_ports_database | 65 Gulf port metadata. |
Daily_Ports_Data | Per‑port daily ship‑call counts. |
VesselFinder /api/pub/mp2 — live AIS vessel positions (MMSI, name, lat/lon, heading, type). Undocumented binary endpoint used by VesselFinder's own front‑end, reverse‑engineered in lib/vesselfinder-client.ts. 30‑second cache. ToS‑gray: may be rate‑limited, IP‑blocked, or break without notice. For production deployment, swap to a commercial AIS API (Datalastic, Spire, VesselFinder paid tier). The rest of the dashboard keeps working if AIS fails — fetchLiveShips has a catch fallback that returns an empty vessel list.
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