compare-hotels

compare-hotels is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination guide for comparing hotels from premium booking programs, regular cash-search sites, and Airbnb in one view. It also considers included benefits such as credits, breakfast, and upgrades.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare accommodation options, decide whether Chase or Amex offers better value, or compare hotels with Airbnb.
Why use it?
It removes the need to compare separate hotel sources manually or overlook the value of booking benefits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the travel-hacker plugin — 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare accommodation options, decide whether Chase or Amex offers better value, or compare hotels with Airbnb.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/compare-hotels
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill compare-hotels
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install travel-hacker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,668 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 81
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.02668
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01334
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00267

Measured 9d ago against content hash ae9781238c07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compare-hotels 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 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/compare-hotels/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Companion reference skills. Load these for deeper context:

  • hotel-chains — branded property to loyalty program mapping
  • premium-hotels — FHR / THC / Chase Edit credits and stacking strategy
  • points-valuations — CPP floor/ceiling for hotel programs (Hyatt 1.4-1.7cpp, Hilton 0.4cpp floor, etc.)
  • fallback-and-resilience — recovery when a hotel source fails

Compare Hotels

Search every available source for accommodation and present one unified comparison. Combines portal premium programs (Chase Edit, Amex FHR/THC), cash pricing, and Airbnb alternatives into a single view.

This is an orchestration skill. It tells the agent which tools to run and how to combine results. No standalone script.

When to Use

  • "Find me a hotel in Paris for Aug 11-15"
  • "Should I book through Chase or Amex for this hotel?"
  • "Compare hotels vs Airbnb in Oslo"
  • Any accommodation search where the user wants the full picture

Sources

Run these in parallel where possible. Never fail silently.

Portal Premium Programs (Docker required)

Source Skill Speed What It Finds
Chase Travel chase-travel ~45s Edit hotels ($100 credit, breakfast, upgrade), Points Boost, standard hotels
Amex Travel amex-travel ~45s FHR ($100+ credit, breakfast, upgrade, late checkout), THC ($100 credit on 2+ nights)

Cash Prices and Metasearch

Source Skill/Tool Speed What It Finds
SerpAPI serpapi ~3s Google Hotels cash prices and direct booking links.
Trivago web search ~5s Metasearch across many OTAs. Use tavily/exa to search trivago.com. Finds the absolute cheapest OTA rate.
LiteAPI web search ~5s Hotel API aggregator with negotiated rates. Check liteapi.travel. Can find rates below public OTA pricing.
RapidAPI rapidapi ~3s Booking.com inventory and pricing. Optional, use when user asks for Booking.com specifically.

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 227 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ae9781238c07

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compare-hotels is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (654 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,668 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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