hotel-chains

hotel-chains is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide that maps hotel brands to their hotel chains and loyalty programs—for example, Westin to Marriott Bonvoy and Holiday Inn to IHG One Rewards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when hotel results include chain properties and you need to identify the relevant rewards program or check award availability.
Why use it?
It prevents branded hotels from being treated as unrelated properties and signals when loyalty-point award rates should be checked.

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 hotel results include chain properties and you need to identify the relevant rewards program or check award availability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/hotel-chains
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 hotel-chains
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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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 609 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 Excessive Agency · line 16
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00042 $0.00609
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 8d ago against content hash fbb50727336f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hotel-chains 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 8d 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/hotel-chains/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hotel Chain Recognition

Reference data: data/hotel-chains.json

Use the quick_lookup section in the data file to instantly identify which loyalty program a hotel belongs to when it appears in search results. When you see "Westin" you need to know that's Marriott Bonvoy. When you see "The Standard" you need to know that's Hyatt.

The Trigger Table

When results contain properties from ANY of these chains, IMMEDIATELY pull AwardWallet balances and check award rates. No judgment call. No asking. Just do it.

Chain Family Properties Include Loyalty Program
IHG Holiday Inn, InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Kimpton, Staybridge, Candlewood IHG One Rewards
Marriott Marriott, Sheraton, Westin, W, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Courtyard, Aloft Marriott Bonvoy
Hilton Hilton, DoubleTree, Hampton, Embassy Suites, Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Curio Hilton Honors
Hyatt Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Park Hyatt, Andaz, Thompson, Alila, Hyatt Place World of Hyatt
Accor Sofitel, Novotel, Pullman, Fairmont, Raffles, Swissôtel, ibis, Mercure Accor Live Limitless
Radisson Radisson, Radisson Blu, Park Inn, Country Inn Radisson Rewards
Wyndham Wyndham, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, La Quinta, Tryp Wyndham Rewards
Best Western Best Western, Best Western Plus, Best Western Premier, SureStay Best Western Rewards

Always Compare Points vs Cash for Hotels

  • Hyatt points: 1.4cpp VFTW floor / 1.5cpp UP/OMAAT median / 1.7cpp TPG ceiling. Often a great redemption.
  • Hilton at 0.4cpp floor (almost always better to pay cash).
  • Marriott at 0.6-0.7cpp.
  • IHG at 0.5cpp across all sources. Almost always better to pay cash.

Mention transfer opportunities. "Your Chase UR transfers 1:1 to Hyatt. That 25K/night Category 5 hotel is worth $375 in cash. That's 1.5cpp, between the 1.4 conservative floor and 1.7 ceiling. Decent but not exceptional."

Booking Windows for Hotels

Reference data/sweet-spots.json booking_windows section if a user wants to know how far in advance to book.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 8d ago First seen · 41 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A fbb50727336f

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hotel-chains is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (653 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 609 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.