status-match

status-match is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,272 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to airline and hotel status matches, where one loyalty programme grants equivalent or trial elite status based on status held elsewhere. It covers direct matches, paid services, card-based status, costs, and time limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare eligibility, fees, card alternatives, challenge rules, and lifetime restrictions before switching or seeking elite travel status.
Why use it?
It helps avoid applying for a match at the wrong time or paying for an option that is not useful. Some programmes allow a match only once or once every few years.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to compare eligibility, fees, card alternatives, challenge rules, and lifetime restrictions before switching or seeking elite travel status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/status-match
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 status-match
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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,272 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 $0.00048 $0.03272
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01636
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00327

Measured 9d ago against content hash 869188311d73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

status-match 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 9d 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/status-match/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Status Match Reference

When a user wants to switch loyalty programs or shortcut to elite status, the question is rarely "can I match?" but "should I match?" The answer depends on three things this skill makes explicit: how often the program lets you do it, what it costs (free vs paid concierge), and whether a credit card already grants the tier you want.

Reference data: data/status-match.json. Refresh cadence is 90 days because rules change occasionally but not weekly.

Critical Rule: Lifetime Restrictions Punish Wasted Matches

Many of the best status matches are once-per-lifetime or once-every-3-years. A match wasted in the wrong year because the user doesn't have travel coming up is gone forever. Always read the lifetime_warning field before recommending an application.

The biggest offenders:

Program Restriction
Alaska Atmos Rewards ONCE PER LIFETIME (literally; from terms: "one status match for the lifetime of their account")
Flying Blue (paid concierge) ONCE PER LIFETIME ("Only 1 match is allowed per person")
United MileagePlus ONCE EVERY 3 YEARS (failed challenge can extend lockout to 5 years)
Delta SkyMiles ONCE EVERY 3 YEARS (per official terms)
AA AAdvantage Instant Status Pass ONCE EVERY 2 YEARS
Hyatt Globalist Challenge LIKELY once per lifetime (community-confirmed; not in published terms; Hyatt has discretion)
Marriott Platinum Challenge LIKELY once per lifetime when offered (targeted; not always available; opt-in only)
Hilton Diamond Challenge LIKELY once per lifetime (when offered; Gold via Amex Platinum is renewable separately and not subject to the lifetime restriction)

When the user is considering a match, the first question to answer is "do you have travel that uses this status in the next 6-12 months?" If no, don't burn the match. Card-based renewable status is the better fallback (see below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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. 9d ago First seen · 215 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 869188311d73

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status-match is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (654 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,272 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.