Safety Checker for a location

Find 24-hour businesses, well-lit public areas, transit stations, police stations, and hospitals near any location for late night safety awareness.

Security Scan

The skill's requirements, instructions, and included script are coherent with its stated purpose (late-night location safety lookups) and do not request unrelated credentials or hidden endpoints, though the README suggests installing code from a GitHub repo which you should review before running.

Purpose & Capability

The skill is a location safety helper and only requests a single API key (CAMINO_API_KEY) which is used to call api.getcamino.ai/context; this matches the described functionality.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and the shell script limit actions to validating JSON input, reading the CAMINO_API_KEY env var, and POSTing a safety-focused context request to https://api.getcamino.ai/context. There are no instructions to read unrelated files, harvest other environment variables, or exfiltrate data to unexpected endpoints.

Install Mechanism

The registry has no formal install spec, but SKILL.md recommends using npx to fetch a GitHub repo (barneyjm/camino-skills). Installing code from a remote repo via npx pulls and runs third-party code—review that repo before running. The included shell script itself is straightforward and not obfuscated.

Credentials

Only CAMINO_API_KEY is required and it is actually used by the script. No additional secrets or unrelated environment variables are requested. (Minor inconsistency: the script requires curl and jq at runtime but the skill metadata lists no required binaries.)

Persistence & Privilege

The skill does not request always:true or attempt to modify other skills or global agent settings. It is user-invocable and uses the API key only for requests to the Camino API.

Assessment

This skill is coherent with its purpose, but before installing or running: 1) Review the referenced GitHub repo (npx install target) if you plan to use the npx installation to ensure you trust the publisher; 2) Only provide a CAMINO_API_KEY from a trusted Camino account and avoid reusing high-privilege credentials; 3) Note the script requires curl and jq—ensure those are from trusted system packages; 4) The trial endpoint in SKILL.md posts your email to api.getcamino.ai to issue a temporary key—be intentional about the email you provide; 5) If you have concerns about sharing location data with the Camino API, do not provide the key or use the script.

Installation

Companion Skills: This is part of the Camino AI location intelligence suite. Install all available skills (query, places, relationship, context, route, journey, real-estate, hotel-finder, ev-charger, school-finder, parking-finder, fitness-finder, safety-checker, travel-planner) for comprehensive coverage.

# Install all skills from repo
npx skills add https://github.com/barneyjm/camino-skills

# Or install specific skills
npx skills add https://github.com/barneyjm/camino-skills --skill safety-checker

Via clawhub:

npx clawhub@latest install safety-checker
# or: pnpm dlx clawhub@latest install safety-checker
# or: bunx clawhub@latest install safety-checker

Late Night Safety

Find 24-hour businesses, well-lit public areas, transit stations, police stations, and hospitals near any location. Provides safety-focused context awareness for late night situations.

Setup

Instant Trial (no signup required): Get a temporary API key with 25 calls:

curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "[e-mail]"}' \
  https://api.getcamino.ai/trial/start

Returns: {"api_key": "camino-xxx...", "calls_remaining": 25, ...}

For 1,000 free calls/month, sign up at https://app.getcamino.ai/skills/activate.

Add your key to Claude Code:

Add to your ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "env": {
    "CAMINO_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
  }
}

Restart Claude Code.

Usage

Via Shell Script

# Check safety resources near a location
./scripts/safety-checker.sh '{"location": {"lat": 40.7506, "lon": -73.9935}, "radius": 500}'

# Check with larger radius
./scripts/safety-checker.sh '{"location": {"lat": 37.7749, "lon": -122.4194}, "radius": 800}'

Via curl

curl -X POST -H "X-API-Key: $CAMINO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"location": {"lat": 40.7506, "lon": -73.9935}, "radius": 500, "context": "late night safety: 24-hour businesses, transit, police, hospitals"}' \
  "https://api.getcamino.ai/context"

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
location	object	Yes	-	Coordinate with lat/lon
radius	int	No	500	Search radius in meters

Response Format

{
  "area_description": "Busy commercial area in Midtown Manhattan with 24-hour businesses...",
  "relevant_places": {
    "hospitals": [...],
    "police": [...],
    "transit": [...],
    "24_hour_businesses": [...],
    "pharmacies": [...]
  },
  "location": {"lat": 40.7506, "lon": -73.9935},
  "search_radius": 500,
  "total_places_found": 34,
  "context_insights": "This area has good late-night safety resources including..."
}

Examples

Check safety near a hotel at night

./scripts/safety-checker.sh '{"location": {"lat": 40.7506, "lon": -73.9935}, "radius": 500}'

Check safety in an unfamiliar neighborhood

./scripts/safety-checker.sh '{"location": {"lat": 34.0407, "lon": -118.2468}, "radius": 600}'

Check safety near a transit stop

./scripts/safety-checker.sh '{"location": {"lat": 41.8827, "lon": -87.6233}, "radius": 400}'

Use Cases

• Late night arrivals: Check what safety resources are near your hotel or Airbnb
• Walking at night: Identify well-lit areas, open businesses, and emergency services along your path
• Travel safety: Assess unfamiliar neighborhoods before visiting at night
• Emergency awareness: Know where the nearest hospital and police station are located
• Transit safety: Check what resources are near transit stops you'll be using late at night