Country Borders Skill

Overview

Pass a two-letter ISO country code to retrieve all neighboring countries sharing a land boundary. Responses detail the nation's full name, geographic region, subregion, and whether it is landlocked. Paid plans add geographic center coordinates for the requested country.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as CountryBordersSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "CountryBordersSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "country": "CA"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about CA in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for CountryBordersSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`country`Required	string	The Country 2 Letter ISO code (e.g., CA) length 2–2

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "country": "Canada",
    "cca2": "CA",
    "landlocked": false,
    "region": "Americas",
    "subregion": "Northern America",
    "coordinates": {
      "lat": 60,
      "lng": -95
    },
    "borders": [
      "USA"
    ]
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`country`	string	`Canada`	Full name of the country
`cca2`	string	`CA`	Two-letter ISO country code
`landlocked`	boolean	`false`	Indicates if country is landlocked without ocean access
`region`	string	`Americas`	Geographic continent or major world region
`subregion`	string	`Northern America`	More specific geographic subdivision within region
`coordinates`	object	`{…}`
`coordinates.lat`Premium	number	`60`	Latitude coordinate of country center point
`coordinates.lng`Premium	number	`-95`	Longitude coordinate of country center point
`borders`	array	`["USA"]`	List of neighboring country names that share borders

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Cross-Border Route Planning: Freight dispatchers check adjacent nations along transport corridors to verify transit jurisdictions and identify landlocked destinations needing sea-port rerouting.
Regional Market Expansion: E-commerce platforms identify neighboring territories around existing warehouses to sequence regional delivery coverage country by country.
Geopolitical Strategy Games: Game developers build realistic adjacency maps between territories to enforce valid troop movements across shared national borders.
Compliance Risk Screening: When auditing vendor supply chains, trade compliance officers flag suppliers operating adjacent to sanctioned territories.

Other ways to use Country Borders Skill

Set up Country Borders Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →

Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →

Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContext →Reference →