mapbox-geospatial-operations

mapbox-geospatial-operations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (4,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing between geometric map calculations and road-based routing tools. Geometric calculations measure shapes or straight-line distances, while routing uses roads to estimate paths and travel times.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting tools for distances, routes, travel times, geographic shapes, buffers, areas, and checking whether a point lies inside a boundary.
Why use it?
It prevents using a straight-line measurement when the task needs driving distance, navigation, or travel time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mapbox plugin — 20 skills, 3 MCP servers shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills/mapbox-geospatial-operations
Any agent
npx skills add mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills --skill mapbox-geospatial-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mapbox, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,188 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00027 $0.04188
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.02094
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00838
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00419

Measured 5d ago against content hash 629cdd7daf2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mapbox-geospatial-operations 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 5d 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/mapbox-geospatial-operations/SKILL.md · 461 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 461 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mapbox Geospatial Operations Skill

Expert guidance for AI assistants on choosing the right geospatial tools from the Mapbox MCP Server. Focuses on selecting tools based on what the problem requires - geometric calculations vs routing, straight-line vs road network, and accuracy needs.

Core Principle: Problem Type Determines Tool Choice

The Mapbox MCP Server provides two categories of geospatial tools:

  1. Offline Geometric Tools - Use Turf.js for pure geometric/spatial calculations
  2. Routing & Navigation APIs - Use Mapbox APIs when you need real-world routing, traffic, or travel times

The key question: What does the problem actually require?

Decision Framework

Problem Characteristic Tool Category Why
Straight-line distance (as the crow flies) Offline geometric Accurate for geometric distance
Road/path distance (as the crow drives) Routing API Only routing APIs know road networks
Travel time Routing API Requires routing with speed/traffic data
Point containment (is X inside Y?) Offline geometric Pure geometric operation
Geographic shapes (buffers, centroids, areas) Offline geometric Mathematical/geometric operations
Traffic-aware routing Routing API Requires real-time traffic data
Route optimization (best order to visit) Routing API Complex routing algorithm
High-frequency checks (e.g., real-time geofencing) Offline geometric Instant response, no latency

Decision Matrices by Use Case

Distance Calculations

User asks: "How far is X from Y?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 461 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. 5d ago First seen · 461 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 629cdd7daf2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mapbox-geospatial-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills (74 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 4,188 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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