national-parks-guide

national-parks-guide is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server. It costs 48 tokens per session (627 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using National Park Service data to plan visits to US national parks. It checks that a park is the intended destination and uses records such as alerts, campgrounds, activities, and events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify a park, review access alerts, find campgrounds and events, and assemble an evidence-based visit plan.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by similar park names, incomplete search results, or assuming that a campground has space. It also makes clear that it does not provide routes, live weather, vacancies, or bookings.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the national-parks-mcp-server plugin — 35 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify a park, review access alerts, find campgrounds and events, and assemble an evidence-based visit plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server/national-parks-guide
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 cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server --skill national-parks-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install national-parks-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 627 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.00627
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00251
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 55562524433c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

national-parks-guide 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 yesterday.

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/national-parks-guide/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope

Use these tools to assess NPS destinations and assemble a visit plan. Campground records describe facilities and reservation arrangements; they do not report vacancies for travel dates or make bookings. Proximity, driving routes, and live forecasts require other sources.

Identifiers

Carry the selected park's parkCode from nps_find_parks through the trip. Alert, campground, activity, and event IDs identify their own records; they are not substitutes for a park code.

Gates

  • Confirm the returned name, state, and designation match the intended destination before requesting related records. Search ranking cannot settle an ambiguous name: Glacier and Glacier Bay can both match "glacier".
  • Check the selected park's alerts before recommending access-dependent activities. Read the affected location and condition, not just the category; a filtered search cannot establish that the whole park is clear.
  • Check result notices and coverage before concluding something is absent. A partial result, an upstream warning, or an empty page beyond the matches cannot support that conclusion. An empty curated activity or event feed does not establish that the park offers nothing to do.
  • Verify date-specific availability through the campground's reservation source before calling a campsite available. Reservable and first-come counts describe inventory, not remaining sites.
  • Verify hookup requirements on the campground's linked page. RV permission, a dump station, and potable water do not establish an RV hookup.
  • Place a recurring event on the itinerary only when its returned occurrence dates include the visit date. A series anchor is not evidence of an occurrence that day; an empty occurrence list does not establish cancellation.

Workflows

Camping feasibility

Resolve the destination, then combine park access alerts with campground records. Compare the user's actual requirements against amenities, accessibility text, reservation guidance, and linked campground details. Keep unknown amenities unresolved. Present suitable candidates with their reservation links, separating facility suitability from availability for the requested dates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 40 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 55562524433c

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national-parks-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 627 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 2026-10-28.

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