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WritingPython

Booking Guidance

by borski

Booking Guidance is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by borski in travel-hacking-toolkit.

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Install Booking Guidance
Copy Booking Guidance into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/tree/main/plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/booking-guidance ~/.claude/skills/booking-guidance

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/booking-guidance/SKILL.md in borski/travel-hacking-toolkit
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/booking-guidance
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Writing1012 skills

What Booking Guidance does

Booking Guidance explains how to book award flights, including when to hold space before transferring points and which programs require phone booking. It is used when a deal is found and you need the actual reservation path.

Booking Guidance is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Booking Guidance comes from a repository tagged award-flights, claude-code, flights, hotels and mcp.

Documentation

README

Booking Guidance

Finding the deal is half the battle. Telling the user how to actually book it is the other half. Every recommendation should include a booking path.

Reference data: data/alliances.json has booking details for major programs in key_booking_relationships.

Program Fee Profiles

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Booking Guidance

  • What else does borski publish alongside Booking Guidance?

    Booking Guidance is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Alliance Awareness, American Airlines AAdvantage and Amex Travel Portal Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Booking Guidance does, and is maintained by borski in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the borski/travel-hacking-toolkit page.

  • How does Booking Guidance compare to other Writing skills?

    Booking Guidance ranks #650 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Booking Guidance against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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