mapbox-navigation-patterns

A set of implementation patterns for adding maps and navigation with Mapbox, a mapping service. It covers web apps and native iOS and Android apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for turn-by-turn directions, route display, alternate routes, traffic-aware routing, multi-stop trips, delivery route planning, road avoidance, and voice guidance.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose between Mapbox's route-calculation service and mobile navigation tools when building directions or routing features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,394 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00038 $0.01394
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00697
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash d165ce4060c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

mapbox-navigation-patterns scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

**Before coding:** SPM (`MapboxNavigationCore` + `MapboxNavigationUIKit`), `.netrc` download token, `MBXAccessToken`, location permissions, background `audio`/`location` — see [install guide](https://docs.mapbox.com/ios/
skills/mapbox-navigation-patterns/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mapbox Navigation Patterns

Expert guidance for implementing navigation and routing features using Mapbox Directions API and Navigation SDKs. Covers turn-by-turn navigation, route optimization, real-time traffic integration, multi-stop routing, and navigation UI components.

Use This Skill When

User says things like:

  • "I need turn-by-turn navigation in my app"
  • "How do I add driving directions?"
  • "I want to show a route on the map"
  • "I need multi-stop routing"
  • "How do I add voice guidance?"
  • "I want real-time traffic updates"
  • "I need to optimize delivery routes"

Product Overview

Directions API (REST)

Best for: Web applications, simple routing, backend route calculation

Features:

  • Route calculation (driving, walking, cycling, traffic)
  • Alternative routes
  • Turn-by-turn instructions
  • Multi-stop routing (up to 25 waypoints)
  • Route optimization
  • Real-time traffic data
  • Avoid specific roads/areas

Pricing: Pay per request

Navigation SDK for iOS

Best for: Native iOS apps with turn-by-turn navigation

Defaults: SwiftUI app shell + wrap drop-in NavigationViewController via UIViewControllerRepresentable (official getting-started path). Use a fully custom Core UI (CoreSDKExample) only when the user explicitly wants to build their own nav chrome.

Before coding: SPM (MapboxNavigationCore + MapboxNavigationUIKit), .netrc download token, MBXAccessToken, location permissions, background audio/location — see install guide and the iOS reference checklist.

Features:

  • Drop-in turn-by-turn UI (NavigationViewController) — default
  • Optional fully custom Core UI (route progress / banner publishers)
  • Voice guidance (30+ languages)
  • Real-time rerouting
  • Traffic-aware routing
  • Offline maps and routing
  • Route progress tracking
  • Speed limit display

Pricing: Monthly Active Users (MAU) based

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 149 lines · 38 tokens per session scan C d165ce4060c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mapbox-navigation-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mapbox/mapbox-agent-skills (74 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,394 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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