Your AI agent just became a points-and-miles travel agent

What it does

The Travel Hacking Toolkit is a plugin (or cloned repo, for OpenCode) that bolts 42 skills and 6 MCP servers onto your coding agent, turning it into a trip planner. Ask for a business class flight to Tokyo on points and it will search award availability across 27 mileage programs, compare against cash fares, pull your loyalty balances, and recommend the play. It covers flights, hotels, credit card portals, ferries, and even corporate-perk sites like TicketsAtWork.

The interesting bit

The architecture is honest about the mess it’s gluing together: real APIs where they exist (Seats.aero, Duffel, Ignav), free MCP servers for metasearch, and Docker containers running Patchright browser automation for the sites that refuse to offer APIs — Southwest, Amex, Chase, American Airlines. The orchestration skills (compare-flights, trip-calculator) are where the value sits: they fan out across all sources in parallel and apply transfer-ratio math, taxes, and opportunity cost to answer the actual question — cash or points?

Key highlights

• Award search across 27 mileage programs via Seats.aero, with a calendar view for cheapest award dates
• Five MCP servers (Skiplagged, Kiwi, Trivago, Ferryhopper, Airbnb) work with zero API keys
• trip-calculator does the cash-vs-points math locally, including transfer ratios and opportunity cost
• A setup script handles API keys with masked input, validation, and rc-file backups — keys never hit your scrollback
• Local dataset of 4,659 Amex FHR/THC and Chase Edit hotels for benefit-stacking searches

Caveats

• The main event, award search, needs a Seats.aero Pro key (~$8/mo); AwardWallet balance syncing needs a business account
• Browser-automation skills for Southwest, Amex, Chase, and AA pull Docker images on first use and depend on Patchright, which can be brittle
• Claude Desktop’s chat UI doesn’t support the plugin format — you need Cowork or Claude Code

Verdict

If you already collect points and live in Claude Code or Codex, this is a genuinely useful pile of glue. If you book flights with a credit card and a shrug, skip it — the whole thing assumes you care about transfer ratios.