mcp-planetary-computerSAFE
Earth-observation imagery catalogue from Microsoft's Planetary Computer — search its open satellite and environmental collections (Sentinel, Landsat, NAIP, Daymet, ERA5, biodiversity) by area and date and get item ids, footprints, dates and asset URLs.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
Earth-observation imagery catalogue from Microsoft's Planetary Computer — search its open satellite and environmental collections (Sentinel, Landsat, NAIP, Daymet, ERA5, biodiversity) by area and date and get item ids, footprints, dates and asset URLs.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.
Tools
planetary_computer_collections(contains?, prefix?, limit?)— the datasets in
the catalogue with licence, extent and date range. Call this first: search refuses a query that names no collection.
planetary_computer_collection(collection_id)— one dataset in full,
including the asset keys (bands) its items carry.
planetary_computer_search(collections, bbox?, datetime?, ids?, limit?, max_assets?)
— which scenes cover an area on given dates, with cloud cover and per-band asset URLs.
Auth
Keyless for metadata. Asset BYTES are a separate step: most collections require a short-lived read token from https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/sas/v1/token/{collection} (itself keyless, ~1 hour) appended to the href. The href alone is not a working download link and reads like a dead one if you try it cold.
Data sources
- — STAC API 1.0.
Shared client: shared/src/stac.ts (stacCollections / stacCollection / stacSearch), also used by earth-search, copernicus-dataspace and meteoswiss. Fix paging or an error message there and all four improve.
Traps
POST /searchwith nocollectionsanswers **HTTP 422 `collection is
required** — a bare string naming no fix. The shared client converts it into a message that names planetarycomputercollections`.
- Collection ids are per-catalogue.
sentinel-2-l2ahere is
sentinel-2-c1-l2a on Earth Search. Passing a sibling catalogue's id returns an empty result, not an error.
GET /collectionspages; the shared client foll
2a44417e2c77OBSERVED · 2026-10-11Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add mcp-planetary-computer -- npx -y @pipeworx/[email protected]
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-planetary-computer": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/[email protected]"
]
}
}
}Exposed tools (2)
2 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
planetary_computer_collections | read | List the Earth-observation collections (datasets) in Microsoft |
planetary_computer_search | read | Search Planetary Computer satellite imagery and environmental data by area and date, returning item ids, acquisition datetimes, footprints, cloud cover and per-band asset URLs. AUTHORITATIVE for |
Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (1)
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, tsx, typescript, @cloudflare/workers-types
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
2a44417e2c77full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/pipeworx-io__mcp-planetary-computer.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | 2a44417e2c77 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the mcp-planetary-computer MCP server?
Earth-observation imagery catalogue from Microsoft's Planetary Computer — search its open satellite and environmental collections (Sentinel, Landsat, NAIP, Daymet, ERA5, biodiversity) by area and date and get item ids, footprints, dates and asset URLs.
What tools does mcp-planetary-computer expose?
2 in total: 2 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is mcp-planetary-computer safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does mcp-planetary-computer need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does mcp-planetary-computer run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @pipeworx/mcp-planetary-computer at 0.1.1.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (2a44417e2c77), read on 2026-10-11. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.