Reservation Gardening

by borski

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

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Install Reservation Gardening

Copy Reservation Gardening 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/gardening ~/.claude/skills/gardening

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

What Reservation Gardening does

Reservation Gardening audits existing travel reservations for price drops, better routings, cabin upgrades, and schedule changes. Use it when checking booked flights or hotels from a reservations file on a regular cadence.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Reservation Gardening

Concept: "Gardening" (coined by Nicholas Kralev, popularized by View from the Wing) means regularly tending to your travel reservations — catching problems early and spotting opportunities to upgrade, rebook, or save money.

Reservations File

The user points this skill at a file containing their current bookings. The file path is provided when invoking the skill (e.g., ~/trips/reservations.json or ~/trips/reservations.yaml).

If no file path is provided, ask the user for it.

Expected File Format

The file should contain an array of reservations. Each reservation should include as much of the following as possible:

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

Frequently asked about Reservation Gardening

What else does borski publish alongside Reservation Gardening?
Reservation Gardening 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 Reservation Gardening 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 Reservation Gardening compare to other Automation skills?
Reservation Gardening ranks #1159 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 Reservation Gardening against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.