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AGENTS.md

stays AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from him229/stays. It costs 924 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python library, command-line tool, and MCP server for searching and retrieving Google Hotels data. MCP is a standard way for an AI assistant to call tools provided by another program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search hotels, retrieve hotel details, enrich search results, call the Python API, or run its command-line and MCP servers.
Why use it?
It gives programs and coding agents one interface for hotel searches and details without requiring a separate database or cache.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is him229/stays's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on stays itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything stays configures →

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stays AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

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AGENTS.md · 47 lines

How it starts

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AGENTS.md

General instructions

stays is a Python library + CLI + MCP server providing programmatic access to Google Hotels via reverse-engineered API. It offers a single stays console script exposing subcommands for search/details/enrich and MCP stdio/HTTP servers, plus a Python API. No external services (databases, caches, etc.) are required.

For deeper reference, see CLAUDE.md. That file is the source of truth for architecture, commands, and tool surface.

Development commands

All standard commands live in the Makefile. Key ones:

  • Install deps: uv sync --extra dev (MCP is core; --extra dev adds ruff + pytest)
  • Lint: make lint (ruff)
  • Format: make format
  • Tests (offline): make test
  • Tests (live, network): make test-live
  • MCP stdio server: uv run stays mcp
  • MCP HTTP server: uv run stays mcp-http (serves at http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp/)
  • Register with Claude: uv run stays setup claude
  • Register with Codex: uv run stays setup codex
  • ChatGPT setup instructions: uv run stays setup chatgpt
  • CLI search: uv run stays search "tokyo hotels" --check-in 2026-07-22 --check-out 2026-07-26
  • CLI detail: uv run stays details <entity_key> --check-in ... --check-out ...
  • Build wheel/sdist: make build

Module layout notes

  • The MCP server is split into stays/mcp/{server,_config,_params,_executors}.py: server.py is the registration surface only; _config.py holds HotelSearchConfig + HARD_MAX_HOTELS_WITH_DETAILS = 15; _params.py holds the pydantic *Params classes; _executors.py holds the _execute_*_from_params bodies.
  • The response parser lives under the package stays/search/parse/ (search_parser, detail_parser, policy_parser, provider_parser, slots), not the old single parse.py.
  • SearchHotels.search_with_details returns EnrichedResult items with error_kind: "transient" | "fatal" | None and an is_retryable property — use these instead of inspecting error strings.

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stays AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository him229/stays (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 924 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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