How to integrate Mapbox MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Mapbox account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Mapbox account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Mapbox with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Mapbox

Ask your agent to connect to Mapbox, or simply request any Mapbox-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Mapbox connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Mapbox or request any Mapbox-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With Mapbox connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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

Tool to perform permanent reverse geocoding.

Reverse Geocoding

Tool to reverse geocode coordinates into place names.

Get Access Token

Tool to extract and validate Mapbox access token from connection metadata.

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

Tool to calculate optimal driving routes and trips that visit a set of waypoints.

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

Tool to retrieve directions between waypoints.

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 distance matrix between multiple locations.

Retrieve Searchbox Place Details

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

Retrieve Style

Retrieves the complete Mapbox style specification as JSON, including all layers, sources, sprites, and configuration.

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.

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. Hermes 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.

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