vrbo

vrbo is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based search tool for Vrbo, a vacation-rental website listing whole homes, condos, and cabins. It uses Patchright, a browser automation tool designed to pass Vrbo’s bot checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find whole-home rentals, multi-bedroom stays, cabins, and condos, or compare Vrbo listings with Airbnb.
Why use it?
It handles Vrbo’s anti-bot barrier, which can block ordinary HTTP requests and standard browser automation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to find whole-home rentals, multi-bedroom stays, cabins, and condos, or compare Vrbo listings with Airbnb.

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

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/vrbo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/vrbo.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 75
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
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 $0.00097 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00187

Measured 8d ago against content hash 615437e30f9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vrbo 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/entrypoint.sh, scripts/search_vrbo.py, tests/test_search_vrbo.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/vrbo/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search VRBO vacation rentals via Patchright and return whole-home / condo / cabin listings with pricing and booking links. VRBO is the natural complement to the Airbnb MCP for group and family stays — many mountain-town and resort property managers cross-list on both, but VRBO carries professionally-managed condos and cabins that don't always appear on Airbnb.

Requires Patchright (undetected Playwright fork). VRBO sits behind Akamai Bot Manager — plain HTTP, standard Playwright, @playwright/mcp, and agent-browser all get a 429 Too Many Requests ("Provisioned request rate has been exceeded") bot wall. Patchright passes Akamai's sensor and earns the _abck cookie. This is the same wall — and the same fix — as the chase-travel / amex-travel / southwest skills.

Must run headed (headless=False). Akamai flags headless browsers. On macOS a Chrome window briefly appears. For background / unattended runs, use Docker (Xvfb provides the virtual display).

No login required. VRBO search results are public — unlike chase-travel / amex-travel, there are no credentials. The persistent profile only caches the Akamai cookie so repeat searches re-challenge less.

Prerequisites

pip install patchright && patchright install chromium

Or use Docker (no local install, headed via Xvfb):

docker build -t vrbo skills/vrbo/

When to Use

  • Group / family stays where you want a whole home, condo, or cabin
  • "Compare Airbnb vs VRBO in "
  • Multi-bedroom rentals with separate rooms (the multi-person trip pattern)
  • Resort / mountain towns (Canmore, Banff-area, Whistler, Muskoka) where professional property managers list condos on VRBO that aren't on Airbnb

When NOT to Use

  • Completing a booking. This skill finds rentals and returns links only. Do not attempt to complete a purchase.
  • Hotels. Use compare-hotels / serpapi / liteapi / the portal skills.
  • Single rooms / shared rooms. VRBO is whole-property only; for private rooms in a shared home use the Airbnb MCP (private_room).

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 163 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 615437e30f9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vrbo is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (653 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,866 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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