Getting Started

by borski

Getting Started is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by borski in travel-hacking-toolkit.

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Install Getting Started

Copy Getting Started 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/getting-started ~/.claude/skills/getting-started

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/getting-started/SKILL.md in borski/travel-hacking-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/getting-started
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Getting Started does

Getting Started detects which travel API keys are already set and helps you add missing ones with a local setup script. It also shows sample prompts based on the tools you have configured.

Getting Started is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Getting Started comes from a repository tagged award-flights, claude-code, flights, hotels and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Getting Started Skill

The user invoked this skill explicitly. Help them figure out what's already working, what they're missing, and what to actually try. Critically: do NOT prompt for API keys in chat. Pasting a key into a chat input puts it in terminal scrollback, the local Claude Code session log, and the Anthropic API logs. The toolkit ships a local script that prompts for keys with masked input and writes them straight to the user's shell rc, never going through chat.

Step 1: Detect what's already configured

First detect the user's platform via the Bash tool's environment. If bash is available (macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash on Windows), use the bash detection. If you're on native Windows PowerShell with no bash, use the PowerShell detection instead.

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

Frequently asked about Getting Started

What else does borski publish alongside Getting Started?
Getting Started 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 Getting Started 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 Getting Started compare to other Automation skills?
Getting Started ranks #1153 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Getting Started against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.