google-maps

google-maps is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oakley7247/google-maps-harness. It costs 188 tokens per session (2,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only tool for answering location questions with live Google Maps data. It can check addresses, compare places, calculate travel times with traffic, create travel-time tables, and look up time zones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify addresses, find places, compare ratings and prices, check hours and phone numbers, estimate driving, walking, or transit journeys, and compare many routes.
Why use it?
It avoids relying on old or incomplete location information when addresses, opening hours, routes, ratings, or traffic matter.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/oakley7247/google-maps-harness/google-maps
Any agent
npx skills add oakley7247/google-maps-harness --skill google-maps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oakley7247/google-maps-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for google-maps

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oakley7247/google-maps-harness/google-maps.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oakley7247/google-maps-harness/google-maps)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oakley7247/google-maps-harness/google-maps"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oakley7247/google-maps-harness/google-maps.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,175 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 5.1 $0.00188 $0.02175
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.01087
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00217

Measured 5d ago against content hash 20d6f092cd7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/maps.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skill/google-maps/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Maps

Thirteen commands over six Google Maps Platform APIs, all read-only. One script does the work: scripts/maps.py. Run it with bash and read the JSON it prints — its code never needs to enter your context.

Before the first call

Two things make this work, and both fail loudly rather than silently, so check them once at the start of a conversation rather than debugging mid-answer.

1. The API key. The script looks in this order and never accepts a key as a command-line argument:

  • the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY environment variable
  • a file named with --key-file
  • a file called google-maps-key.txt or .env in the working directory or the usual upload locations

If no key is found, the script says so and names what it looked for. Ask the user to upload a small text file containing just the key rather than pasting the key into the chat — a pasted key lives in the conversation transcript for good, while an uploaded file does not. If they paste it anyway, write it to a file and use --key-file; don't repeat it back.

2. Network access. This is the one that blocks people, and it is never the key. A sandbox reaches the internet through a managed proxy that allows only listed domains, and googleapis.com is not on the default list — so every call fails identically, and no retry changes that.

check prints a PROXY line that says which of the two causes you have:

  • a proxy is named but requests go direct → re-run with --use-proxy
  • requests already go through it, or there is none → the domains are not allowlisted. The user has to add them under Settings → Capabilities → Code execution. The six hosts are in references/setup.md.

Report which one it is and stop. Looping on this wastes the conversation.

Check both at once, before promising results. One command separates the three failures that look identical from the outside — no key, no network, and an API switched off:

python3 scripts/maps.py check

It reports where it looked for the key, whether Google is reachable, and which APIs answer. Add --all to probe all seven rather than one. It spends one request, or seven with --all, and prints no part of the key.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 128 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A 20d6f092cd7f

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google-maps is a skill published in the GitHub repository oakley7247/google-maps-harness (0 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 2,175 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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