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/install travelhound
Description
Compare real-time flights and hotels with price forecasts, coupon stacking, and destination news to find the best time and deal for your trip.
Usage Guidance
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.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: travelhound
Version: 1.1.2
TravelHound is a travel planning skill that coordinates flight and hotel price comparisons by instructing the AI agent to navigate legitimate travel sites (Google Flights, Skyscanner, Booking.com, etc.) using the browser tool. The scripts (flights.js, hotels.js, and trip.js) primarily handle argument parsing and outputting structured instructions for the agent to follow. The skill integrates with other ecosystem tools like CouponClaw and NewsToday for promo codes and destination intelligence. No evidence of malicious intent, data exfiltration, or unauthorized execution was found.
Capability Assessment
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.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install travelhound - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/travelhound - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.1.2
- Updated package dependencies in package.json.
- No user-facing feature changes.
- Maintenance release for compatibility and stability.
v1.1.1
- Added README.md for improved documentation and onboarding.
- Updated package.json to reflect new documentation and version details.
v1.1.0
- Updated dependencies in package.json for improved stability and performance.
- No changes to core features or user-facing functionality.
v1.0.1
- Improved: Minor updates and maintenance for better reliability.
- Updated dependencies in package.json.
- Refactored scripts/trip.js for stability and compatibility.
v1.0.0
TravelHound 1.0.0 – All-in-one travel price comparison and booking advice
- Compares real-time flight prices from Google Flights, Skyscanner, Kayak, and Trip.com, with booking timing analysis.
- Compares hotel prices across Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com, and Trip.com, stacking OTA coupons for extra discounts.
- Full trip planner provides flights, hotels, total budget estimate, and destination intelligence in one report.
- Includes visa info, safety advisories, exchange rates, and latest news for destinations.
- No API keys required—fetches live data directly from travel platforms.
Metadata
Frequently Asked Questions
What is 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. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 184 downloads so far.
How do I install TravelHound?
Run "/install travelhound" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is TravelHound free?
Yes, TravelHound is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does TravelHound support?
TravelHound is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created TravelHound?
It is built and maintained by jiajiaoy (@jiajiaoy); the current version is v1.1.2.
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