Overture Places
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-OVERTURE-PLACES · 2 COMPONENTS
Overture Maps places — business and point-of-interest locations (name, category, confidence…
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Last scanned (14 hours ago)
Scores higher than 69% of npm servers
Category Maps and Location
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-overture-places). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability57
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1085 tokens (~361/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
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Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +16
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 4 Nov 26 −15
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 3 Nov 26 +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.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 29 Oct 26 78
First indexed and scored.
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-overture-places@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-overture-places |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-overture-places/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3685220523 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:77df72658308f389aaab85dcf57e2e71e8daefcd0071485289b2d4e831a0e45e986badd6415bda76db205e169a174835f20407de64705429e4ebccf0b |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
places_by_domain ~253
List every physical location whose website is on a company domain — the store / office / branch footprint of a business — in the United States and the United Kingdom (Overture Maps places). Give a domain like "starbucks.com" or a full URL; subdomains and paths fold to the registrable domain. Returns the total count, counts by country and by state/region, and the locations with addresses, phones and confidence. Answers "how many locations does acme.com have and where".
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Optional: only locations in this country ("US" or "GB"). |
| domain | string | yes | Company domain or website URL, e.g. "starbucks.com", "https://www.tesco.com/stores". |
| include_closed | boolean | – | Include places Overture marks permanently_closed. Default false. |
| limit | number | – | Max locations returned (1–1000, default 100). Counts always cover all matches. |
| min_confidence | number | – | Hide places whose Overture existence confidence is below this (0–1). Default 0.7. |
| region | string | – | Optional: only locations in this state/region, e.g. "TX". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
places_in_area ~371
Count and list the businesses and points of interest inside an area — a bbox, a radius around a point, or a whole city — in the United States and the United Kingdom (Overture Maps places), optionally for one category. Returns the total, a breakdown by category, and the highest-confidence places. Answers "how many restaurants are in this bbox", "what kinds of businesses are within 500 m of this address", "how many gyms are in Manchester".
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bbox | array | – | Bounding box [west, south, east, north] in decimal degrees, as an alternative to near. |
| category | string | – | Overture category, e.g. "coffee_shop", "dentist", "hotel", "restaurant", "pharmacy". Matches the basic category, the taxonomy primary or any level of its hierarchy. |
| city | string | – | City / town / locality name, e.g. "Austin" or "London". Needs country. |
| country | string | – | Country for city: "US" or "GB" (also accepts "UK", "United States", "United Kingdom"). |
| include_closed | boolean | – | Include places Overture marks permanently_closed. Default false. |
| limit | number | – | Max places listed (0–200, default 25). Counts cover the whole area. |
| min_confidence | number | – | Hide places whose Overture existence confidence is below this (0–1). Default 0.7. |
| near | object | – | Centre point {lat, lon} in decimal degrees. Use with radius_m. |
| radius_m | number | – | Search radius in metres around near (50–50000). |
| region | string | – | Optional state or region to disambiguate city, e.g. "TX" or "Texas". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
places_search ~405
Find businesses and points of interest by name and/or category near a point, inside a bbox, or within a city, in the United States and the United Kingdom (Overture Maps places). Returns each place with name, category, confidence score, street address, websites, phones, emails, social links, brand and source record ids, nearest or best match first. Answers "where is the nearest Starbucks to these coordinates", "find dentists in Austin TX", "list Pret A Manger shops in London".
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bbox | array | – | Bounding box [west, south, east, north] in decimal degrees, as an alternative to near. |
| category | string | – | Overture category, e.g. "coffee_shop", "dentist", "hotel", "restaurant", "pharmacy". Matches the basic category, the taxonomy primary or any level of its hierarchy. |
| city | string | – | City / town / locality name, e.g. "Austin" or "London". Needs country. |
| country | string | – | Country for city: "US" or "GB" (also accepts "UK", "United States", "United Kingdom"). |
| include_closed | boolean | – | Include places Overture marks permanently_closed. Default false. |
| limit | number | – | Max places returned (1–200, default 25). |
| min_confidence | number | – | Hide places whose Overture existence confidence is below this (0–1). Default 0.7. |
| name | string | – | Business name or words in it, e.g. "Starbucks" or "Pret A Manger". Optional when category is given. |
| near | object | – | Centre point {lat, lon} in decimal degrees. Use with radius_m. |
| radius_m | number | – | Search radius in metres around near (50–50000). |
| region | string | – | Optional state or region to disambiguate city, e.g. "TX" or "Texas". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Overture Places MCP server?
Overture Places runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-overture-places. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-overture-places
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-overture-places -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-overture-places
What is the Overture Places MCP server?
Overture Places is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/overture-places. Overture Maps places, business and point-of-interest locations (name, category, confidence… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-overture-places).
Is the Overture Places MCP server safe to use?
Overture Places scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Overture Places MCP server expose?
Overture Places exposes 3 tools: places_search, places_by_domain, places_in_area. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,029 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Overture Places MCP server still maintained?
Overture Places 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.
What licence is the Overture Places MCP server under?
Overture Places declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.
What did VerifyMCP test on the Overture Places MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Overture Places, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.