seats-aero

seats-aero is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 34 tokens per session (5,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A flight-award search guide using Seats.aero to find seats bookable with airline miles across many loyalty programs. Award availability means seats that can be purchased with points rather than cash.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search award flights, compare programs, identify cheaper mileage options, and open booking links.
Why use it?
It helps compare mileage prices and distinguish fixed saver awards from demand-based prices that can change or be unusually high.

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 to search award flights, compare programs, identify cheaper mileage options, and open booking links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/seats-aero
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 seats-aero
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

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for seats-aero

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for seats-aero

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,357 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: 2 findings, 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 Data Exfiltration · line 269
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 264
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00034 $0.05357
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02678
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00536

Measured 11d ago against content hash 54fb9ec29ed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seats-aero 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.

curl -s -H "Partner-Authorization: $SEATS_AERO_API_KEY" \
plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/seats-aero/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seats.aero Skill

Search cached and live award flight availability across 27 mileage programs (including Spirit Free Spirit and Frontier Miles, added April 2026). Find the cheapest award flights, compare programs, and get booking links.

Source: seats.aero | API Docs | Knowledge Base

Authentication

Set SEATS_AERO_API_KEY in your .env file. Get from Settings > API tab (Pro account required).

All requests use the Partner-Authorization header. Pro users get 1,000 API calls per day for non-commercial use.

API Base

https://seats.aero/partnerapi

Key Concepts

Saver vs Dynamic Pricing

Award seats fall into two categories:

  • Saver (fixed price): Set, predictable miles cost. Often the ONLY type bookable through partner programs. Best value. Always shown on Seats.aero.
  • Dynamic: Price changes based on demand (like cash fares). Can be reasonable or extremely expensive. Seats.aero filters out overpriced dynamic awards by default.

Dynamic Price Filter Thresholds

Awards exceeding these per-hour thresholds are hidden automatically:

Program Economy Prem Econ Business First
American <100K total <100K total <150K total <200K total
United 7,500/hr 10,000/hr 14,000/hr 20,000/hr (max 10h)
Delta 10,000/hr 15,000/hr 20,000/hr N/A
Aeroplan 7,500/hr 10,000/hr 12,500/hr 15,000/hr
Flying Blue 5,000/hr 10,000/hr 15,000/hr 15,000/hr
Alaska <150K total <150K total <150K total <150K total
Aeromexico 10,000/hr (max 10h) 15,000/hr 20,000/hr N/A
Etihad 10,000/hr (max 10h) 15,000/hr 20,000/hr N/A
JetBlue 10,000/hr 15,000/hr 20,000/hr N/A
Qantas 7,500/hr 10,000/hr 20,000/hr 25,000/hr

To see ALL dynamic pricing (including expensive): pass include_filtered=true on cached search/bulk, or disable_filters=true / show_dynamic_pricing=true on live search.

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 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 · 407 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 54fb9ec29ed7

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seats-aero is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (659 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 5,357 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.