# Faceabot Places nearby (remote · faceabot.com)

Places near any address: restaurants, pharmacies, hotels and more (OpenStreetMap). Free, no key.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `faceabot.com`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 61/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 698 tokens (~174/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 30/100
  - Stability observed for 9 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 78/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 35% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server?

Faceabot Places nearby is a hosted endpoint at https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-faceabot-places 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-places": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-faceabot-places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-faceabot-places]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-faceabot-places": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-faceabot-places --url 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-faceabot-places:
    url: "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-places": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-faceabot-places -t streamable-http -u 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 70, +1)

- [security] Tool “places_near” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [cosmetic] “places_near” added an optional parameter “where”
- [cosmetic] “places_near” made “lat” optional
- [cosmetic] “places_near” made “lon” optional

### 2026-10-27 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `places_search` (~183 tokens)

Find places in a city

Finds places of one kind in a city or area from OpenStreetMap: restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, hostels, museums, attractions, pharmacies, hospitals, supermarkets, ATMs, parking, EV charging, parks… with address, coordinates, opening hours, website and phone when known.
Use when: someone asks for "restaurants in Rome", "museums in Amsterdam", "a pharmacy in Brussels".
Example: {"what":"restaurant","where":"Rome","limit":10}

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Language for names and addresses. Default: en
- `limit` (integer)
- `what` (string, required): Kind of place, in English or another language (restaurant, hotel, musée, apotheek…)
- `where` (string, required): City, district or area (any language), e.g. "Rome", "Ixelles, Brussels"

### `places_near` (~179 tokens)

Find places near a point

Finds places of one kind around a latitude/longitude or an address (up to 5 km), nearest first, with distance in meters.
Use when: you need the closest pharmacy, ATM, restaurant, charging station… to the user's location or to an address.
Example: {"what":"pharmacy","lat":50.8467,"lon":4.3525,"radius_m":1000} or {"what":"pharmacy","where":"Grand-Place, Brussels"}

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string)
- `lat` (number)
- `limit` (integer)
- `lon` (number)
- `radius_m` (integer)
- `what` (string, required): Kind of place (any language)
- `where` (string): Instead of lat/lon: an address or place name (any language), converted to coordinates

### `geocode_address` (~97 tokens)

Address or place name to coordinates

Turns an address, a place name or a city into coordinates (latitude, longitude) with its full address, type and country. Worldwide, any language.
Use when: you need coordinates for a map, a distance, weather or places_near.
Example: {"query":"Grand-Place, Brussels"}

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required): Address, landmark or place name

### `reverse_geocode` (~78 tokens)

Coordinates to address

Turns a latitude/longitude into the nearest address (street, postcode, city, country).
Use when: you have GPS coordinates and need a readable address.
Example: {"lat":48.8584,"lon":2.2945}

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string)
- `lat` (number, required)
- `lon` (number, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 72
- 2026-11-02: 72
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 71
- 2026-10-30: 71
- 2026-10-29: 70
- 2026-10-28: 70
- 2026-10-27: 69

## Common questions

### What is the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server?

Faceabot Places nearby is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.faceabot/places. Places near any address: restaurants, pharmacies, hotels and more (OpenStreetMap). Free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places).

### Is the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server safe to use?

Faceabot Places nearby scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server expose?

Faceabot Places nearby exposes 4 tools: places_search, places_near, geocode_address, reverse_geocode. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 537 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Faceabot Places nearby without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Faceabot Places nearby MCP server still maintained?

Faceabot Places nearby is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/places
- Website: https://faceabot.com/tools/com.faceabot/places
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-places/tools-mcp-places