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Which MCP servers are Mapbox's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

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Whose server it is
  • Registry nameio.github.mapbox/mcp-docs-serverpublished by mapbox on GitHub

Published under the GitHub organisation mapbox, the same one mapbox.com links from its homepage. The registry ties that namespace to a GitHub sign-in.

When we asked itchecked 2026-11-02
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-11-02
  • Tools3
  • Server calls itselfMapbox Documentation MCP Server
  • Server version0.3.1
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-11-02 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 207 ms.

Should an agent connect itSkip it
  • Its tools do none of the product's use cases we checked: Calculate travel times and distances between many points; Geocode and validate addresses; Embed turn-by-turn navigation in mobile apps.
  • Checked on 2 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 2, the first on 2026-11-02
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 2 so far
  • What an agent can do with it0 of 3 use cases
  • Use6,152 npm downloads a week363 GitHub stars
  • Answeredmeasuring2 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer217 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 506 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (3), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 3 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • cannot · Calculate travel times and distances between many points
  • cannot · Geocode and validate addresses
  • cannot · Embed turn-by-turn navigation in mobile apps

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers3 tools · read 2026-11-02
  • get_document_tool

    Fetch the full content of a specific Mapbox documentation page by URL. Use this after get_latest_mapbox_docs_tool to follow a link from the index and retrieve the complete page content. For fetching multiple pages at once, use…

  • batch_get_documents_tool

    Fetch the full content of multiple Mapbox documentation pages in a single call (max 20). More efficient than calling get_document_tool multiple times. Returns an array of results — failed pages include an error message rather than failing…

  • search_mapbox_docs_tool

    Search Mapbox documentation by keyword or natural language query. Searches across API reference, GL JS, Help Center, Style Spec, Studio, Search JS, iOS/Android Maps and Navigation SDKs, and Tilesets. Returns ranked results with titles…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-docs-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp-docs.mapbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http mapbox https://mcp-docs.mapbox.com/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://mcp-docs.mapbox.com/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Also shipped through: npm

Other servers listed as Mapbox's
  • io.github.mapbox/mcp-devkit-serveranswers, requires sign-inpublished by mapbox on GitHub
  • io.github.mapbox/mcp-serveranswers, requires sign-inpublished by mapbox on GitHub

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.