gardening

gardening is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reservation-review guide for regularly checking existing travel bookings. “Gardening” means tending reservations over time to catch changes and better options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a reservations file to review flights and other bookings for savings, upgrades, rebooking opportunities, and schedule problems.
Why use it?
It can reveal price drops, better cabins, improved routes, schedule changes, nearby-airport alternatives, or newly available award deals after booking.

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 with a reservations file to review flights and other bookings for savings, upgrades, rebooking opportunities, and schedule problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/gardening
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 gardening
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,181 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00101 $0.02181
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01091
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00218

Measured 10d ago against content hash dfac9fd1df09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gardening 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 10d 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/gardening/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reservation Gardening

Concept: "Gardening" (coined by Nicholas Kralev, popularized by View from the Wing) means regularly tending to your travel reservations — catching problems early and spotting opportunities to upgrade, rebook, or save money.

Reservations File

The user points this skill at a file containing their current bookings. The file path is provided when invoking the skill (e.g., ~/trips/reservations.json or ~/trips/reservations.yaml).

If no file path is provided, ask the user for it.

Expected File Format

The file should contain an array of reservations. Each reservation should include as much of the following as possible:

[
  {
    "trip_name": "Sydney Vacation",
    "confirmation": "ABC123",
    "type": "flight",
    "booking_date": "2026-03-15",
    "program": "United MileagePlus",
    "paid_with": "points",
    "cost": { "miles": 85000, "taxes_usd": 45.60 },
    "cash_price_at_booking": 2340,
    "segments": [
      {
        "airline": "UA",
        "flight": "UA870",
        "origin": "SFO",
        "destination": "SYD",
        "date": "2026-09-12",
        "departure": "22:30",
        "arrival": "07:15+2",
        "cabin": "business",
        "fare_class": "I",
        "seat": "6A",
        "aircraft": "787-9"
      }
    ],
    "passengers": 2,
    "notes": "Booked with Chase UR transfer"
  },
  {
    "trip_name": "Sydney Vacation",
    "confirmation": "HTL-9876",
    "type": "hotel",
    "hotel_name": "Park Hyatt Sydney",
    "program": "World of Hyatt",
    "paid_with": "points",
    "cost": { "points": 30000, "per_night": true },
    "cash_price_at_booking": 850,
    "checkin": "2026-09-14",
    "checkout": "2026-09-18",
    "room_type": "King Deluxe",
    "guests": 2
  }
]

Flexible on format — YAML, JSON, CSV, or even markdown tables are fine. Parse whatever is provided.

Gardening Checklist

For every reservation in the file, run through this checklist. Parallelize searches across reservations for speed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 10d ago First seen · 198 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A dfac9fd1df09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (659 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,181 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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