travel-hacking-toolkit

AI-powered travel hacking with points, miles, and award flights. Drop-in skills and MCP servers for OpenCode and Claude Code.

Ask your AI to find you a 60,000-mile business class flight to Tokyo. It'll search award availability across 25+ programs, compare against cash prices, check your loyalty balances, and tell you the best play.

git clone https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit.git
cd travel-hacking-toolkit
./scripts/setup.sh

The setup script walks you through everything: picks your tool (OpenCode, Claude Code, or both), creates your API key config files, installs dependencies, and optionally installs skills system-wide.

The 5 free MCP servers (Skiplagged, Kiwi, Trivago, Ferryhopper, Airbnb) work immediately with zero API keys. For the full experience, add at minimum:

| Key | Why | Free Tier | |-----|-----|-----------| | SEATS_AERO_API_KEY | Award flight search. The main event. | No (Pro ~$8/mo) | | SERPAPI_API_KEY | Cash price comparison for "points or cash?" decisions | Yes (100 searches/mo) |

Then launch your tool:

# OpenCode
opencode

# Claude Code
claude --strict-mcp-config --mcp-config .mcp.json

The --strict-mcp-config flag tells Claude Code to load MCP servers from the config file directly. This is more reliable than auto-discovery (known issue).

| Server | What It Does | API Key | |--------|-------------|---------| | Skiplagged | Flight search with hidden city fares | None (free) | | Kiwi.com | Flights with virtual interlining (creative cross-airline routing) | None (free) | | Trivago | Hotel metasearch across booking sites | None (free) | | Ferryhopper | Ferry ro