transfer-partners

transfer-partners is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference skill for choosing how to transfer credit-card points into airline loyalty programs. It compares transfer ratios, award prices, partner-airline access, and point values across currencies such as Chase, Amex, Citi, Capital One, and Bilt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have award availability and want to choose the best points currency, compare transfer partners, or account for an active transfer bonus.
Why use it?
It helps identify which points balance gives the lowest effective cost for an award flight.

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 you have award availability and want to choose the best points currency, compare transfer partners, or account for an active transfer bonus.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/transfer-partners
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill transfer-partners
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 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,371 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 $0.00047 $0.03371
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01685
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00674
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00337

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ae5ef1510bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transfer-partners 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/transfer-partners/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transfer Partner Optimizer

Given award flight prices (from seats.aero or manual input) and your transferable point balances, find the cheapest path to book.

No API key needed. Uses local JSON data files.

Data Files

File Purpose
data/transfer-partners.json Credit card → loyalty program transfer ratios
data/points-valuations.json CPP valuations per program (floor/ceiling from TPG, UP, OMAAT, VFTW)
data/partner-awards.json Which programs can book which airlines

When to Use

  • User has award availability (from seats.aero cached search, live search, or manual input)
  • User wants to know "which of my points should I use?"
  • User wants to compare the effective cost across their transferable currencies
  • User asks about transfer partners for a specific airline or program

Workflow

Step 0: Check Current Transfer Bonuses (Always)

Before recommending any transfer, load the transfer-bonuses skill and check data/transfer-bonuses.json for active bonuses on the relevant currency-to-program pair. A 30% bonus turns a 1:1 ratio into 1:1.3, which can flip the cheapest-currency calculation in Step 3 entirely. Bonuses also have expiration dates that affect timing decisions.

Step 1: Get Award Availability

Use seats.aero (API or web) to search for award flights. Each result includes:

  • Source (the loyalty program: "united", "aeroplan", "flyingblue", etc.)
  • Points cost per cabin (e.g., 55,000 business)

Step 2: Map Seats.aero Sources to Transfer Partners

Seats.aero source names map to transfer-partners.json keys:

Seats.aero Source Transfer Partner Key Programs That Transfer In
united united Chase UR (1:1), Bilt (1:1)
aeroplan aeroplan Chase UR (1:1), Amex MR (1:1), Bilt (1:1), Capital One (1:1)
flyingblue flying_blue Chase UR (1:1), Amex MR (1:1), Bilt (1:1), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1), Wells Fargo (1:1)
american american Citi TY (1:1)
alaska alaska_hawaiian Bilt (1:1)
virginatlantic virgin_atlantic Chase UR (1:1), Amex MR (1:1), Bilt (1:1), Citi TY (1:1), Wells Fargo (1:1 via Virgin Red)
delta delta Amex MR (1:1)
emirates emirates Bilt (1:1), Amex MR (5:4), Capital One (4:3), Citi TY (5:4)
etihad etihad Bilt (1:1), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1)
singapore singapore Chase UR (1:1), Amex MR (1:1), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1)
jetblue jetblue Chase UR (1:1), Citi TY (1:1), Wells Fargo (1:1), Amex MR (250:200), Capital One (5:3)
qatar qatar Amex MR (1:1), Bilt (1:1), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1)
turkish turkish Bilt (1:1), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1)
eurobonus (no direct transfer) N/A
aeromexico aeromexico Amex MR (1:1.6), Capital One (1:1), Citi TY (1:1)
smiles (no direct transfer) N/A
finnair finnair Capital One (1:1)
lufthansa (no direct transfer) N/A
ethiopian (no direct transfer) N/A
saudia (no direct transfer) N/A

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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 · 224 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 5ae5ef1510bd

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transfer-partners is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (654 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,371 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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