find-the-best-seat

find-the-best-seat is a skill for Claude Code from FlightSeatmap/mcp. It costs 54 tokens per session (777 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing seats on commercial flights using FlightSeatMap, a service with aircraft seat maps, seat details, availability, and passenger reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare seats, check whether a particular seat is suitable, or understand what a flight cabin looks like.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork about a seat with information about the aircraft cabin and the seats currently available. A flight number is needed because the seat map is organized by flight.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the flightseatmap plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare seats, check whether a particular seat is suitable, or understand what a flight cabin looks like.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flightseatmap/mcp/find-the-best-seat
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add FlightSeatmap/mcp --skill find-the-best-seat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlightSeatmap/mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flightseatmap, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 777 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.
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 $0.00054 $0.00777
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4fd87c0267a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-the-best-seat 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.

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.

skills/find-the-best-seat/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find the best seat on a flight

FlightSeatMap has seat maps, seat-level specs, and passenger reviews for 117 airlines. Use it whenever someone asks "which seat should I pick", "is 31A any good", or "what's the cabin like".

Connect

Preferred: the MCP server at https://mcp.flightseatmap.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). The read-only tools below need no authentication — do not send the user through OAuth unless you hit a paid tool.

Alternative: the HTTP API described by https://flightseatmap.com/openapi.json.

Auth, when you need it: https://flightseatmap.com/auth.md.

Workflow

  1. Get the flight number. Airline IATA code + number, e.g. BA117, QF1, UA900. If the user gives a route and date instead, ask for the flight number — the seat map is keyed on it. A date (YYYY-MM-DD) is optional but improves accuracy, because aircraft swap between dates.

  2. Pull the seat map with get_seatmap(flight_number, flight_date?). This tells you the aircraft type, cabins, and which seats are currently free. If it 404s, the flight number is wrong or unmapped — say so rather than guessing an aircraft.

  3. Rank against stated preferences with find_best_seats(flight_number, preferences[], cabin_class?, flight_date?). Valid preferences: window, aisle, extra_legroom, exit_row, quiet_zone, front, rear, bulkhead. Pass everything the user said; the ranker weighs them together. Do not invent preference values outside that list.

  4. Sanity-check the top pick with get_seat_info(flight_number, seat) before you recommend it. This surfaces the drawbacks a seat map alone hides: no recline in the last row, misaligned window, galley or lavatory noise, a bassinet wall, a bulkhead with a fixed armrest.

  5. Add lived experience with get_seat_reviews(flight_number, seat?) when the choice is close or the user is picky. Reviews are user-submitted, so attribute them as such.

  6. Answer with a recommendation, not a list. Name one seat, say why in one line, give one backup, and name the trade-off you accepted. Link the seat map: https://flightseatmap.com/flights/<FLIGHT_NUMBER>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 8d ago Changed 4fd87c0267a8
  2. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A e9e9af407693

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find-the-best-seat is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlightSeatmap/mcp (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 777 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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