google-maps

google-maps is a skill for Claude Code from cablate/mcp-google-map. It costs 55 tokens per session (781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of geographic query capabilities for an AI agent, using Google Maps data to work with places, addresses, coordinates, routes, distances, travel times, and elevation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding nearby places, converting addresses to coordinates, comparing locations, planning routes, calculating distance or duration, and checking elevation.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about physical locations and travel with structured map results. It also provides patterns for combining several map queries when one question needs multiple steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mcp-google-map plugin — 4 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Finding nearby places, converting addresses to coordinates, comparing locations, planning routes, calculating distance or duration, and checking elevation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cablate/mcp-google-map/google-maps
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cablate/mcp-google-map --skill google-maps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cablate/mcp-google-map

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mcp-google-map, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 781 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 105
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 94
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 123
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00781
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00312
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00078

Measured 28d ago against content hash 80f3cf405ba1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-maps scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 28d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/google-maps/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Maps

Answer real-world location questions with the package's standalone exec CLI. Do not start or configure an MCP server for this workflow.

Before calling the CLI

  • On the first call in a session, or after an execution failure, read ../_shared/setup-and-diagnostics.md and run the non-billable local preflight.
  • The user must supply GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY. Never print it or place it in a command unless the user explicitly accepts shell-history and process-list exposure.
  • Before presenting Places reviews, photos, or AI summaries, read ../_shared/content-attribution.md.

Workflow

  1. Identify the concrete location outcome and missing inputs. Do not request details that can be resolved by geocoding or place search.
  2. Read references/tools-api.md when exact parameters, response fields, or a multi-tool recipe are needed.
  3. Prefer coordinates over ambiguous addresses and place_id over repeated name searches.
  4. Chain only the calls needed for the outcome. Reuse returned identifiers and coordinates.
  5. Treat nonzero exit status or { "success": false } as a failure, not as geographic data.
  6. Summarize the useful result rather than returning raw JSON. Preserve source and attribution metadata where required.

Tool selection

Outcome Preferred tools
Address or landmark to coordinates maps_geocode
Coordinates to address maps_reverse_geocode
Nearby discovery maps_search_nearby, then maps_place_details
Natural-language place search maps_search_places, then maps_place_details
Compare candidate places maps_compare_places or search → details → distance matrix
Route or travel-mode comparison maps_directions, maps_distance_matrix
Multi-stop route without a broader itinerary maps_plan_route
Things along a route maps_search_along_route
Neighborhood facts maps_explore_area plus targeted nearby searches
Elevation, timezone, weather, or air quality corresponding environment tool; geocode first when needed
Visual map maps_static_map after locations or a route are known

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 28d ago Changed · -53 lines · +9 tokens per session 80f3cf405ba1
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -8 lines · -34 tokens per session 26a4af221d3a
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 6c0ab3bdb768

Subscribe to this mod's changes

google-maps is a skill published in the GitHub repository cablate/mcp-google-map (479 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 781 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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