stays

stays is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only assistant for finding hotels and vacation rentals through StayingAPI, a service that gathers lodging data from several booking sites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for stays, checking availability and minimum stays, comparing prices, getting price quotes, and reading reviews before booking through the listing's own link.
Why use it?
It avoids checking Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, and Google Hotels one by one when comparing places, dates, prices, and reviews.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Searching for stays, checking availability and minimum stays, comparing prices, getting price quotes, and reading reviews before booking through the listing's own link.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp/stays
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 stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp --skill stays
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,470 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 $0.00091 $0.01470
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00735
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00147

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0945b936cd63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stays 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 10d 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/stays/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hotels & vacation rentals (StayingAPI)

This plugin bundles the hosted stayingapi MCP server (https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp). Its seven tools are the only data path — never scrape Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo or Google Hotels, and never call the REST API directly from this skill.

All seven tools are read-only. Nothing here can book, cancel or change a reservation. Always hand the user the listing url so they can complete a booking themselves.

Authentication is automatic. The MCP server uses OAuth: the first tool call prompts the user to sign in (or create a free account — 300 credits, no card). There is no API key to configure. If tools fail with an auth error, tell the user to complete the sign-in prompt in their client, or re-enable the stayingapi MCP server in settings.

When to use

DO use when the user:

  • Wants to find somewhere to stay in a place, optionally for dates and a party size → search_stays
  • Asks what a specific property costs for their dates → get_price
  • Asks "is it cheaper on Booking or Airbnb?", or wants the best rate across sites → compare_prices
  • Asks whether a place is free on given dates, or what its minimum stay is → check_availability
  • Wants detail on one listing — amenities, photos, host, location, rating → get_listing
  • Asks what guests said about a property → get_reviews

Do NOT use when:

  • The user wants flights, trains or car hire — out of scope
  • A hotel or city appears incidentally, with no request for accommodation data
  • The user asks you to book something — you cannot; produce the listing URL instead

Tools (exact MCP surface)

search_stays — the breadth tool

  • location (string, required): place name ("Split, HR") or lat,lng.
  • checkIn / checkOut (date, YYYY-MM-DD): required together, not in the past.
  • adults / children / childAges[] / roomschildAges[] length must equal children.
  • platforms[]: airbnb | booking | vrbo | google — drives fan-out. Restrict this when the user only cares about one site; each extra platform costs more.
  • propertyType[], amenities[], minBedrooms, priceMin, priceMax, minGuestRating.
  • limit (1–40), cursor, sort (recommended | price_asc | price_desc | rating_desc), currency.
  • Returns results merged into one schema. Keep limit tight — results are the main cost driver. Carry platform + platformListingId from results into every follow-up tool.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 0945b936cd63

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stays is a skill published in the GitHub repository stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,470 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 2026-08-31.

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