Agent skill

China Admin Boundaries

by zzhonglei in zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release

Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons.

MITAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install China Admin Boundaries

skills CLI
$ npx skills add zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release --skill china-admin-boundaries -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release china-admin-boundaries --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/contributions/china-admin-boundaries/skill .claude/skills/china-admin-boundaries && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
china-admin-boundaries
GitHub stars
189
Token cost
~434 tokens
SKILL.md length
170 words
Files
4
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons.

  • Data & Analytics work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Data, Selecting a unit and Mapping note
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

China Admin Boundaries is an agent skill from zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release. Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons. Use this whenever a task needs China's administrative-area boundaries, instead of downloading them from OSM / Natural Earth / GADM, whose depiction of China's borders is not compliant with China's official standard.

Its SKILL.md is about 430 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files.

It sits in Data & Analytics. The repository describes itself as: A desktop AI assistant for geoscience data processing. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Data & Analytics work in your project

Example prompts

  • “s borders is not compliant with China”
  • “/china-admin-boundaries”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e3534f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

China Admin Boundaries loads about 434 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 170 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~434

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release at commit 6e3534f, republished under its MIT licence (© zzhonglei). 170 words, ~434 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/china-admin-boundaries/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
china-admin-boundaries
description
Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons. Use this whenever a task needs China's administrative-area boundaries, instead of downloading them from OSM / Natural Earth / GADM, whose depiction of China's borders is not compliant with China's official standard.

China Administrative Boundaries

GeoCode's bundled official, compliant polygons of China's administrative divisions, sourced from Tianditu (China's national geospatial platform) and following the national mapping standard. Whenever a task needs China's province / city / county areas, use these — do not download them from OSM / Natural Earth / GADM, whose border depiction is not compliant for use in mainland China.

Data

Three GeoJSON files in this skill's data/ directory (use the absolute path provided to you), CRS WGS84 / EPSG:4326:

FileLevelFeatures
china_province.geojsonprovince34
china_city.geojsoncity (prefecture)375
china_county.geojsoncounty / district2891

Fields: adcode (6-digit code, unique key), name (Chinese name), gb (156 + adcode), level.

Selecting a unit

Select by adcode, not name — county-level names repeat. adcode is province(2) + city(2) + county(2), so prefix-match to drill down: 51 → all of Sichuan, 5101 → all of Chengdu.

Mapping note

These are analysis polygons only — they exclude the nine-dash line. To draw a whole-China map, use the thematic-map skill's china_base as the national frame (it carries the nine-dash line) and overlay these polygons as a thematic layer.

© zzhonglei, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files in contributions/china-admin-boundaries/skill of zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release.

  • SKILL.md
  • data/china_city.geojson
  • data/china_county.geojson
  • data/china_province.geojson

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e3534f

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Questions about China Admin Boundaries

What does China Admin Boundaries do?

Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons. China Admin Boundaries is an agent skill from zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release. Official, standards-compliant vector boundaries of China's administrative divisions — province, city and county polygons.

When should I use China Admin Boundaries?

China Admin Boundaries fits situations like: data & Analytics work in your project.

How do I install China Admin Boundaries in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release --skill china-admin-boundaries -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (contributions/china-admin-boundaries/skill in zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release) into .claude/skills/china-admin-boundaries in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install China Admin Boundaries in Codex?

Run `npx skills add zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release --skill china-admin-boundaries -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (contributions/china-admin-boundaries/skill in zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release) into .agents/skills/china-admin-boundaries in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use China Admin Boundaries in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release --skill china-admin-boundaries -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/china-admin-boundaries, .gemini/skills/china-admin-boundaries, .github/skills/china-admin-boundaries and .opencode/skills/china-admin-boundaries in your project.

What does China Admin Boundaries need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: China Admin Boundaries is instructions for the agent only.

Does China Admin Boundaries access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is China Admin Boundaries safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does China Admin Boundaries use?

China Admin Boundaries is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does China Admin Boundaries use?

About 434 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to China Admin Boundaries?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with China Admin Boundaries: Matplotlib (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.7k stars), Exploratory Data Analysis (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Scikit Learn (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.7k stars) and Chart Visualization (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains China Admin Boundaries?

zzhonglei (a GitHub user) maintains it in zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release, which has 189 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

Source: zzhonglei/GeoCode-Release on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.