emem-urban

emem-urban is a skill for Claude Code from Vortx-AI/emem. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,915 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A signed urban-analysis tool that reports map and satellite measurements for small geographic cells. It covers buildings, places, roads, population density, built-up land, surface water, and night-time lights, while explaining what area each measurement represents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure building and place counts, road length and direction, population density, built-up indicators, recurring surface water, and night lights for urban areas.
Why use it?
Urban numbers can be misleading when their map coverage or measurement area is unclear. The tool makes those limits explicit so counts, densities, and environmental signals are not presented as more precise than they are.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the emem plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to measure building and place counts, road length and direction, population density, built-up indicators, recurring surface water, and night lights for urban areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vortx-ai/emem/emem-urban
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 Vortx-AI/emem --skill emem-urban
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vortx-AI/emem

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install emem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00127 $0.01915
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00766
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00192

Measured 28d ago against content hash febd6568b8d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

emem-urban scanned grade A 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 28d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sf -X POST https://emem.dev/v1/recall -H 'content-type: application/json' \
plugins/emem/skills/emem-urban/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

emem-urban

Network use. The commands in this skill send and receive JSON (and, where a step says so, an image or a raster file) to https://emem.dev only, the service the plugin's MCP server connects to. Nothing they download is executed. The files under scripts/ read local files and make no network calls.

emem answers per cell. A cell is about 10 m across, much smaller than most urban sources, so the first question for every urban number is what it was measured over. This skill gives the answer per band and shows how to go from cells to an area without overstating coverage.

The bands

Band Unit Measured over Source Watch for
overture.buildings.count count the cell's own bbox: buildings whose centroid falls inside Overture buildings, release named in derivation.args 0 can mean unmapped; coverage is uneven outside NA and EU
overture.places.count count points inside the cell bbox Overture places POIs, not people or floor area
overture.transportation.road_length_m m carriageway segments (class motorway through service) clipped to the cell bbox; footways, paths, rail and water are not counted Overture transportation a 10 m cell off the street reads 0
overture.transportation.road_bearing_deg deg_axial, 0 to 180 from north the nearest carriageway segment within 50 m; distance, class and the row groups read in derivation.args Overture transportation an Absence when no carriageway is within 50 m; a footway or plaza edge does not count
population people_per_km2 one 1 km pixel, sampled at the cell WorldPop UNadj 1 km, 2020 the pixel's density, not people in the cell
indices.ndbi ratio, -1 to 1 one 10 m Sentinel-2 pixel, (B11 - B08) / (B11 + B08) Sentinel-2 L2A, scene id in args read surface_class: a cloud-shadow pixel is not built-up evidence
esa_worldcover.lc_2021 class one 10 m pixel ESA WorldCover v200, 2021 50 is built-up
surface_water.recurrence percent one 30 m pixel JRC Global Surface Water 1984 to 2021 60 N to 60 S only
nightlights.dmsp_ols_avg_dn DN 0 to 63 DMSP-OLS stable lights DMSP-OLS V4, 1992 to 2013 saturates at 63 in any city core; no VIIRS

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 28d ago Changed · +4 lines febd6568b8d9
  2. 29d ago First seen · 100 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 9efc9c1339a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

emem-urban is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vortx-AI/emem (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,915 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-29.

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