SIGN UPLOG IN
X (Twitter)LinkedInGitHubDiscordYouTube

How to integrate Mapbox MCP with Claude Agent SDK

Connect Claude Agent SDK to Mapbox MCP. Batch geocode these 10 addresses, get directions from times square to jfk, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

Get started for freeGet a demo
Mapbox logoMapbox
Api Key

Mapbox is a platform providing powerful maps, navigation, and location services for developers. Integrate Mapbox for dynamic, interactive mapping and geospatial insights in your apps.

32 Tools

Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Mapbox to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Mapbox agent that can geocode and reverse geocode addresses, get directions, build isochrones, search places by category, and render static map images through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Mapbox account through Composio's Mapbox MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

Also integrate Mapbox with

Claude CodeClaude CoworkOpenAI Agents SDKGrok BotCodexOpenClawHermesAtomic AgentGoogle ADKLangChainVercel AI SDKMastra AILlamaIndexCrewAIPydantic AIAutoGen

TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Mapbox
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Mapbox as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Mapbox operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

What is the Mapbox MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Mapbox MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Mapbox account. It provides structured and secure access to your mapping and location data, so your agent can perform actions like geocoding addresses, calculating travel routes, retrieving map embeds, and analyzing travel matrices on your behalf.

  • Batch and individual geocoding: Instantly convert addresses or place names to geographic coordinates—or reverse geocode coordinates to place names—using both batch and individual tools.
  • Route and directions retrieval: Let your agent fetch optimized driving, walking, or cycling directions between waypoints, including turn-by-turn instructions when needed.
  • Distance and travel time analysis: Have the agent generate travel time and distance matrices to compare routes or plan logistics across multiple locations.
  • Map style embed generation: Retrieve ready-to-use embeddable HTML for your custom Mapbox map styles, perfect for sharing or displaying maps in web apps.
  • Permanent geocoding and font data retrieval: Access enterprise-grade, cacheable geocoding data or fetch font glyph ranges for custom rendering and advanced mapping use cases.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A Mapbox account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Mapbox functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for Mapbox
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['mapbox'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for Mapbox
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Mapbox tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Mapbox
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Mapbox and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['mapbox']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Mapbox tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Mapbox through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Mapbox action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Batch Geocode V6

Tool to perform batch geocoding with up to 1000 queries in a single request.

Forward Geocode V5

Tool to search for places by name or address using Mapbox Geocoding v5 API (forward geocoding).

Batch Geocoding

Tool to perform batch forward or reverse geocoding for multiple locations.

Forward Geocoding

Tool to convert free-form or structured address into geographic coordinates and place features.

Permanent Forward Geocoding

Tool to perform permanent forward geocoding.

Permanent Reverse Geocoding

Reverse geocode coordinates through Mapbox's permanent geocoding endpoint to obtain cacheable place data.

Reverse Geocoding

Tool to reverse geocode coordinates into place names.

Get Access Token

Extract a Mapbox access token from connection metadata and check its format for downstream use.

Get Isochrone

Tool to calculate areas reachable within a specified amount of time or distance from a location.

Get Map Matching

Tool to snap fuzzy GPS traces to roads on the road network.

Get Optimization V1

Calculate optimized trips visiting a set of waypoints using driving, traffic-aware driving, walking, or cycling profiles.

Get Sprite

Tool to retrieve a sprite image or its JSON document from a Mapbox style.

Get Static Image

Request a static map image from a Mapbox Studio style.

Get Static Tiles

Tool to retrieve raster tiles from a Mapbox Studio style.

Get Token Information

Tool to retrieve information about a Mapbox access token and validate its status.

Get Vector Tiles

Tool to retrieve vector tiles from Mapbox-hosted vector tilesets.

Map Matching (POST)

Tool to snap GPS coordinates to the road network using POST method for longer coordinate lists.

Query Tile Features

Tool to retrieve data about specific features from vector tilesets based on a location.

Request Style Embed HTML

Retrieve embeddable HTML for a Mapbox style that can be embedded in an iframe.

Retrieve Directions

Retrieve directions between waypoints, with optional turn-by-turn instructions.

Retrieve Font Glyph Ranges

Tool to retrieve font glyph ranges as PBF tiles.

Retrieve Marker

Tool to retrieve a standalone marker image without any background map.

Retrieve Matrix

Retrieve a travel time and/or distance matrix between multiple locations.

Retrieve Searchbox Place Details

Tool to retrieve full details for a specific place by its Mapbox ID.

Retrieve Style

Retrieve a Mapbox style's details, including its layers, sources, sprite URL, and glyph URL, for inspecting or analyzing map configurations.

Retrieve Style WMTS

Retrieve a WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) capabilities document for a Mapbox style.

Retrieve Tileset Metadata

Tool to retrieve metadata for a Mapbox tileset.

Reverse Geocoding V6

Tool to convert geographic coordinates to place names using Geocoding v6 API.

Search Box Reverse Geocoding

Tool to convert coordinates to places using the Search Box API (reverse geocoding).

Search Box Forward

Tool to search for places by name or address using the Search Box API.

Search by Category

Tool to search for places by category (e.

Search Box Suggest

Tool to get autocomplete suggestions for a partial search query.

FRAMEWORKS

How to build Mapbox MCP Agent with another framework

Claude Code logo

Claude Code

Use Mapbox MCP with Claude Code

Claude Cowork logo

Claude Cowork

Use Mapbox MCP with Claude Cowork

OpenAI Agents SDK logo

OpenAI Agents SDK

Use Mapbox MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

Grok Bot logo

Grok Bot

Use Mapbox MCP with Grok Bot

Codex logo

Codex

Use Mapbox MCP with Codex

OpenClaw logo

OpenClaw

Use Mapbox MCP with OpenClaw

Hermes logo

Hermes

Use Mapbox MCP with Hermes

Atomic Agent logo

Atomic Agent

Use Mapbox MCP with Atomic Agent

Google ADK logo

Google ADK

Use Mapbox MCP with Google ADK

LangChain logo

LangChain

Use Mapbox MCP with LangChain

Vercel AI SDK logo

Vercel AI SDK

Use Mapbox MCP with Vercel AI SDK

Mastra AI logo

Mastra AI

Use Mapbox MCP with Mastra AI

LlamaIndex logo

LlamaIndex

Use Mapbox MCP with LlamaIndex

CrewAI logo

CrewAI

Use Mapbox MCP with CrewAI

Pydantic AI logo

Pydantic AI

Use Mapbox MCP with Pydantic AI

AutoGen logo

AutoGen

Use Mapbox MCP with AutoGen

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Mapbox MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Mapbox tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Mapbox and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Agent SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Mapbox tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Mapbox scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Mapbox data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

Start with Mapbox.It takes 30 seconds.

Managed auth, hosted MCP servers, and every Mapbox tool your agent needs.Free to start.

Start building