partner-awards

partner-awards is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 33 tokens per session (861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to airline ticketing partnerships, including alliances, direct agreements between airlines, and links from credit-card points to booking programs. An alliance is a group of airlines that cooperate on flights and rewards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating award-flight recommendations, transfer paths, alliance partners, bilateral partnerships, and cross-alliance booking opportunities.
Why use it?
It checks whether a loyalty program can actually book a proposed airline and whether a points-transfer route really exists.

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 evaluating award-flight recommendations, transfer paths, alliance partners, bilateral partnerships, and cross-alliance booking opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/partner-awards
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 partner-awards
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 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 861 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 $0.00033 $0.00861
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 10d ago against content hash f7b24e54bed3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

partner-awards 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/partner-awards/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Partner Awards

Reference data: data/partner-awards.json

When recommending award bookings, check this file to verify:

  1. The booking program can actually ticket the airline you're recommending
  2. Whether the partnership is alliance-based or bilateral
  3. Cross-alliance highlights (VA→ANA, Etihad→AA, Alaska→Starlux, etc.)
  4. Which credit card currencies can reach the booking program

Cross-Alliance Bookings Are Where the Real Value Hides

The best redemptions often involve booking an airline through a program in a DIFFERENT alliance (or no alliance at all). Always check the cross_alliance_highlights section.

Verification Is Mandatory, Not Optional

When recommending a transfer, ALWAYS verify the transfer path exists in data/transfer-partners.json BEFORE committing to the recommendation. If a user or your own reasoning suggests a transfer path not in the file, verify it before agreeing. The file may be stale, or the path may not exist.

This is a hard gate, not a soft check. Never accept a transfer path at face value.

Reachability Workflow

When checking if a user can actually book an award flight:

  1. Identify the operating airline. Star Alliance? oneworld? SkyTeam? Independent?
  2. List all programs that can ticket it. Alliance partners + bilateral partners from partner-awards.json.
  3. For each program, check direct balance. AwardWallet shows what the user has now.
  4. For each program with insufficient balance, check transfer paths. data/transfer-partners.json lists every credit card currency → airline program path with the ratio.
  5. Effective balance = direct balance + max transferable in. A user with 16K United miles but 145K Chase UR has 161K effective United miles (UR transfers 1:1 to United).
  6. Drop programs that are unreachable. Only compare cpp on options the user can actually book.

Common Failure Modes

  • Assuming an airline "can't be booked with points" because the user has zero direct balance. Always check transfer reachability first.
  • Recommending a transfer without verifying the path. Some routes that "seem like they should work" don't (e.g., Amex MR does NOT transfer to United).
  • Missing cross-alliance plays. United metal flights can be booked via Turkish M&S, Avianca LifeMiles, Aeroplan, ANA, and others, often at very different rates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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 · 51 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f7b24e54bed3

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partner-awards is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (659 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 861 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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