bharatlas

bharatlas is a skill for Claude Code from urbanmorph/geodata. It costs 194 tokens per session (1,248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for querying India-only geographic and administrative data, such as states, districts, villages, wards, pincodes, environmental zones, infrastructure, and nearby features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify Indian administrative areas, inspect hazards and infrastructure, search around coordinates, download map layers for geographic-information systems, or create and publish a field-data collection map.
Why use it?
It provides structured answers about what a place or coordinate belongs to and what geographic features are nearby, including data that may come from community submissions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the bharatlas plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify Indian administrative areas, inspect hazards and infrastructure, search around coordinates, download map layers for geographic-information systems, or create and publish a field-data collection map.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/urbanmorph/geodata/bharatlas
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 urbanmorph/geodata --skill bharatlas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urbanmorph/geodata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bharatlas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,248 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00194 $0.01248
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00125

Measured 9d ago against content hash 583495f8ce89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bharatlas 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 9d 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.

plugins/claude-code/skills/bharatlas/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bharatlas: India's open geo atlas via MCP

bharatlas (bharatlas.com) is India's open geo data catalog. This skill drives 17 MCP tools: a read side over curated layers plus community submissions, and an authoring side for collect maps.

When to use

  • Any question about Indian administrative geography (state to village), city wards, constituencies, pincodes.
  • Environment / infrastructure / hazard data: forests, wildlife, rivers, reservoirs, dams, groundwater, agro zones, hospitals, highways, airports, flood and seismic zones.
  • "What is at this coordinate?" or "what is near this point?" in India.
  • Downloading a layer in a GIS format.
  • Running a field data collection with collect and publishing the result.

When NOT to use

  • Directions, traffic, or finding a business (that is Google Maps, not bharatlas).
  • Editing the base map itself (that is OpenStreetMap).
  • Geography outside India (bharatlas is India-only).

Read workflow

  1. Discover: list_layers (filter by category, level, source, or q search) and list_categories. Always check list_submissions too, community layers may cover topics the curated set does not.
  2. Schema first: call get_layer_schema BEFORE query_layer. Column names vary by source ("state" vs "State_LGD" vs "stname"); the schema shows exact names and sample values.
  3. Query: query_layer with where (case-insensitive column=value), select, or group_by for counts. Reads the parquet at runtime.
  4. Locate: locate with lat/lng returns every admin boundary and zone containing that point in one call. The "where am I?" tool.
  5. Nearby: nearby finds features of a layer within a radius (points, lines, or polygons).
  6. Download: get_layer_detail returns direct URLs for parquet, pmtiles, geojson, kml, shapefile.

Source preference

  • Admin boundaries (state to village): prefer LGD (lgd_*) as authoritative. SOI, Bhuvan, geoBoundaries are cross-reference alternates; mention them if the user asks about discrepancies.
  • City wards: one layer per city (wards_chennai, wards_pune, ...); some cities have multiple vintages.
  • Always join on LGD codes, not names (spellings drift across sources).

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 9d ago First seen · 68 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 583495f8ce89

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bharatlas is a skill published in the GitHub repository urbanmorph/geodata (39 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 1,248 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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