TravelHound

Compare real-time flights and hotels with price forecasts, coupon stacking, and destination news to find the best time and deal for your trip.

Security Scan

The skill's code and runtime instructions match its travel price-comparison purpose; it scrapes public booking sites and delegates coupon/news lookups to related skills, and it does not request unrelated credentials or perform hidden network installs.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description (flight + hotel comparison, timing advice, coupon stacking, news) lines up with the scripts and SKILL.md: the scripts instruct the agent to browse Google Flights, Skyscanner, Kayak, Booking.com, Agoda, Trip.com and to call CouponClaw and NewsToday. Minor inconsistency: the skill invokes other ecosystem skills (CouponClaw, NewsToday) but does not declare them as dependencies or in metadata; this is a transparency/packaging omission rather than a functional mismatch.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md/shell scripts explicitly tell the agent to use a browser tool to navigate and extract live pricing from multiple third‑party websites and to run other skills (openclaw run couponclaw / newstoday). This is within the stated purpose, but it grants the agent broad web-scraping scope (including pages that might require login/cookies). The instructions do not ask for unrelated files or env vars.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and package.json has no dependencies. The repository contains only helper scripts that output browsing instructions — nothing is downloaded or installed by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. Its runtime instructions also do not request secrets. That is proportionate given it relies on public web scraping and other skills for coupons/news.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill is user-invocable with normal autonomous invocation allowed. It does not request permanent presence or system-wide config changes.

Assessment

This skill is coherent with its stated purpose, but before installing: - Know that it instructs the agent to browse and scrape multiple booking sites. If your agent's browser tool shares cookies or logged‑in sessions, those pages could reveal account-specific info — ensure sensitive sessions are isolated. - The scripts call other skills (CouponClaw, NewsToday) but the package metadata doesn't declare them as dependencies; verify those skills are trustworthy before allowing the agent to invoke them. - The skill does not request credentials, but it will rely on publicly visible site data; expect fragile behavior if sites change or block scraping. - If you are concerned about autonomous behavior, keep an eye on which tools (browser, web_search) the agent is allowed to use and consider restricting or auditing runs initially.

Flight and hotel price comparison with booking timing analysis, OTA coupon stacking, and destination intelligence — all in one skill.

TravelHound combines real-time price data from Google Flights, Skyscanner, Kayak, Booking.com, Agoda, and Trip.com with coupon stacking via CouponClaw and destination news via NewsToday. It tells you not just the cheapest option, but whether now is the right time to book.

What TravelHound does

• Flight comparison: Google Flights + Skyscanner + Kayak + Trip.com, with Kayak's "Buy now vs Wait" forecast
• Hotel comparison: Booking.com + Agoda + Hotels.com + Trip.com, with OTA coupon stacking
• Full trip planner: Flights + hotels in one output with total budget estimate
• Destination intelligence: Visa requirements, exchange rate trend, safety advisories, latest news
• Booking timing: Price history analysis to decide whether to book now or wait

Trigger phrases

• "cheap flights to..."
• "flights from X to Y"
• "机票"
• "查机票"
• "hotel in..."
• "酒店"
• "查酒店"
• "trip to..."
• "travel to..."
• "旅行计划"
• "全程规划"
• "去X旅游"
• "订酒店"
• "best time to book"
• "should I book now"

Scripts

Script	Command	Description
flights.js	node scripts/flights.js <from> <to> [--date YYYY-MM-DD] [--return YYYY-MM-DD] [--class economy|business] [--passengers N] [--lang zh|en]	Flight price comparison across 4 platforms with booking timing advice
hotels.js	node scripts/hotels.js <destination> [--checkin YYYY-MM-DD] [--checkout YYYY-MM-DD] [--guests N] [--budget budget|mid|luxury] [--lang zh|en]	Hotel price comparison with OTA coupon stacking
trip.js	node scripts/trip.js <destination> [--from city] [--date YYYY-MM-DD] [--nights N] [--budget budget|mid|luxury] [--lang zh|en]	Full trip planner: flights + hotels + destination intel in one report

Data sources

Platform	Type	Strength
Google Flights	Flights	Best aggregator; date flexibility view; price insights
Skyscanner	Flights	Lowest fares including budget carriers; "Everywhere" flexible origin
Kayak	Flights + Hotels	Price Forecast (Buy now / Wait); price history chart
Trip.com / 携程	Flights + Hotels	Often cheapest for Asian routes; Chinese carrier coverage
Booking.com	Hotels	Widest inventory globally; Genius member discounts
Agoda	Hotels	Best rates for Southeast and East Asia
Hotels.com	Hotels	10-night loyalty program

Ecosystem integration

TravelHound calls:

• CouponClaw — finds promo codes for Booking.com, Agoda, Trip.com, and Skyscanner on top of platform prices
• NewsToday — pulls destination-relevant news (political situation, weather events, local festivals)

No API required

TravelHound uses browser navigation to read live pricing from each platform. No API keys or subscriptions needed.