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com.thecastlemap/castles

by thecastlemap.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v1.0.3 · published by com.thecastlemap

Castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins worldwide: search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. CC0.

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7 tools: 2 change things and 5 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http castles https://thecastlemap.com/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

7 tools

Changes things 2Claude Code: ask
  • random_castleOne random landmark with its full record, optionally limited to a country — for discovery, quizzes and "castle of the day" features.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    One random landmark with its full record, optionally limited to a country — for discovery, quizzes and "castle of the day" features.
  • top_castlesThe most famous landmarks worldwide or in one country, ordered by Castlemap fame rank — a blend of Wikipedia coverage and readership; rank 1 is the most famous (Great Wall of China…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    The most famous landmarks worldwide or in one country, ordered by Castlemap fame rank — a blend of Wikipedia coverage and readership; rank 1 is the most famous (Great Wall of China). The direct answer to "most famous castles in <country>"; filter by country and/or category.
Only reads 5Claude Code: allow
  • castles_nearList landmarks within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, nearest first, each with distance_km.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The description's first verb is "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List landmarks within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, nearest first, each with distance_km. Radius defaults to 100 km (max 2,000). For "castles near <place>", geocode the place yourself, then call this with its latitude/longitude.
  • get_castleFetch one landmark’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_castle" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetch one landmark’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "palace-of-versailles") or exact name: coordinates, founding year and century, worldwide fame rank, photo URL with photographer credit and licence, Wikipedia link and its readership signals (Wikidata sitelinks, Wikipedia pageviews over the last 60 days summed across its largest language editions). Unsure of the slug? Call search_castles first.
  • get_statisticsHeadline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by type, top countries, busiest founding century, oldest landmarks, geographic extremes and the most famous entry.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_statistics" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Headline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by type, top countries, busiest founding century, oldest landmarks, geographic extremes and the most famous entry. The source for claims like "which country has the most castles" or "when were castles built"; the full write-up lives at thecastlemap.com/statistics/.
  • list_countriesEvery country in the atlas with its landmark count, most first — answers "which country has the most castles" (France leads).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_countries" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Every country in the atlas with its landmark count, most first — answers "which country has the most castles" (France leads). Returns country name and ISO code per row; country pages are browsable from the countries_index URL.
  • search_castlesSearch the atlas’s 9,035 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_castles" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Search the atlas’s 9,035 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match). Optionally filter by country (name or ISO code) and category. Results come best-match-first, then by fame; each has coordinates, founding century, fame rank and links to its atlas page and Wikipedia. If nothing matches, retry with a shorter fragment of the name.

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.0.3. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http castles https://thecastlemap.com/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__castles__search_castles",
      "mcp__castles__get_castle",
      "mcp__castles__castles_near",
      "mcp__castles__list_countries",
      "mcp__castles__get_statistics"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__castles__top_castles",
      "mcp__castles__random_castle"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as castles. Review it before you use it.