How to Add Google Maps Search to Claude Code

Claude Code is built for coding tasks, but plenty of coding tasks have a location component — building a restaurant finder, scraping business data, testing a Maps integration. When you need real business listings to work with, Claude Code can now fetch them directly through AgentPatch.

Why This Matters

If you’re building anything location-aware, you eventually need real data to test against. Sample datasets go stale fast, and hardcoding fake businesses wastes time. With Google Maps available as a tool, Claude Code can look up actual businesses and use the results directly in whatever it’s building.

This also helps outside of location-specific projects. If you’re working on a project that needs to verify an address, find a timezone for a city, or look up a business’s details, Claude Code can do that inline without breaking your flow.

Setup

The AgentPatch CLI is designed for AI agents to use via shell access. Install it, and your agent can discover and invoke any tool on the marketplace.

Install (zero dependencies, Python 3.10+):

pip install agentpatch

Set your API key:

export AGENTPATCH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Example commands your agent will use:

ap search "web search"
ap run google-search --input '{"query": "test"}'

Get your API key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Install the AgentPatch skill — it teaches Claude Code when to use AgentPatch and how to use the CLI:

/plugin marketplace add fullthom/agentpatch-claude-skill
/plugin install agentpatch@agentpatch

MCP Server (Alternative)

If you prefer raw MCP tool access instead of the skill:

claude mcp add -s user --transport http agentpatch https://agentpatch.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Example

You’re building a local business directory and need seed data to populate your dev database. You tell Claude Code:

“I need 5 real coffee shops in Seattle for the seed data. Can you grab them from Maps?”

Claude Code searches Maps directly:

Searching Google Maps for "coffee shops Seattle"...

Found several results. Here are 5 to use for seed data:

1. Victrola Coffee Roasters — 310 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122 | Rating: 4.6
2. Espresso Vivace — 532 Broadway Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102 | Rating: 4.5
3. Caffe Vita — 1005 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122 | Rating: 4.4
4. Lighthouse Roasters — 400 N 43rd St, Seattle, WA 98103 | Rating: 4.7
5. Elm Coffee Roasters — 240 2nd Ave Ext S, Seattle, WA 98104 | Rating: 4.6

Adding these to seed.ts now.

Claude Code fetched the data and moved straight into writing the seed file. No tab-switching, no copy-pasting from a browser.

Wrapping Up

Adding AgentPatch to Claude Code gives it live access to business and place data during any session. Google Maps is one tool — the same config unlocks web search, news, image generation, email, and every other tool on the marketplace. Visit agentpatch.ai to see what’s available.

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