fallback-and-resilience

fallback-and-resilience is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recovery guide for travel-search tools and APIs. It lists alternative services to try when a primary source fails, times out, blocks access, or reaches a usage limit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when flight, hotel, airline, or accommodation searches encounter errors, rate limits, stale data, or scraping blocks.
Why use it?
It prevents one broken service from stopping a search and explains which backup is most suitable for each problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it when flight, hotel, airline, or accommodation searches encounter errors, rate limits, stale data, or scraping blocks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/fallback-and-resilience
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 fallback-and-resilience
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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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 78
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
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 $0.00043 $0.01538
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00154

Measured 11d ago against content hash d84f29d052b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fallback-and-resilience scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **If an MCP server returns an error,** try the curl-based skill equivalent (or vice versa).
plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/fallback-and-resilience/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fallback and Resilience

Tools go down. APIs break. Have a backup plan for every search.

Primary Tool When It Fails Fallback
Duffel API error or timeout Ignav, Google Flights skill, Skiplagged
Ignav API error Duffel, Google Flights skill, Skiplagged
Google Flights agent-browser error Duffel, Ignav, Skiplagged
Skiplagged 502/timeout (Cloudflare issues) Kiwi.com MCP, Duffel, Ignav
Kiwi.com Server error Skiplagged MCP, Duffel
Seats.aero API error or stale data Check airline website directly, use Duffel for GDS inventory
Southwest SW rate limiting or bot detection Wait a few minutes and retry. Use Docker (ghcr.io/borski/sw-fares) if running locally fails. Google Flights skill for SW cash prices as a fast fallback.
SerpAPI Rate limit (100/mo free) Trivago for hotels, web search for destination discovery
Trivago Server error LiteAPI for hotels, SerpAPI Google Hotels
LiteAPI Auth error (401) Trivago MCP, SerpAPI Google Hotels
Airbnb Scraping blocked Suggest user check airbnb.com directly
AwardWallet API error Ask user for their balances directly
Ferryhopper Server error SerpAPI or web search for ferry routes
Atlas Obscura Script error Web search for "unusual things to do in [destination]"
Chase Travel Login failure or CSRF issues Use Duffel/Ignav for cash prices. Note that Points Boost and Edit detection are Chase-only.
Amex Travel Login failure or form changes Use Duffel/Ignav for cash prices. Note that IAP fares and FHR/THC detection are Amex-only.
Deutsche Bahn (db-vendo) Library error or bahn.de outage SerpAPI Google Travel Explore, web search for "DB train [origin] [dest]", or fall back to confirming flight options instead.
Wikipedia airports API rate limit (rare) or page missing Web search "[airport name] airlines destinations" returns the same data via Google.
Fare tool says "no results" Could be no availability OR no service Use wikipedia-airports to confirm whether the route is flown at all. If Wikipedia lists the destination as served, fare tools have no availability on that date. If Wikipedia doesn't list it, the route doesn't exist. Saves you from asking the user to retry searches that can never succeed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 11d ago First seen · 81 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d84f29d052b4

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fallback-and-resilience is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (659 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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