Agent skill

Travel Guide

by magnus919 in magnus919/agent-skills

Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints.

MITAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install Travel Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill travel-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install magnus919/agent-skills travel-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/travel-guide .claude/skills/travel-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
travel-guide
GitHub stars
115
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,114 words
Files
17 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
131
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints.

  • Works in 6 steps: Establish the trip contract → Handle personal context explicitly → Research current facts → …
  • Someone wants an individualized itinerary
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, When not to use, Progressive routing and Workflow, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Travel Guide is an agent skill from magnus919/agent-skills. Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints. Ask only the questions that change the plan, use explicitly permitted personal context without exposing it, research current logistics, and produce a cited, visually coherent PDF or responsive companion web page. Use when someone wants an individualized itinerary, trip brief, travel field guide, or shareable travel website. Do not use for real-time booking, ticket purchasing, visa or legal advice…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 22 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `README.md`, `evals/evals.json` and `references/editorial-structure.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires an Agent Skills-compatible host, access to current web sources for live travel facts, and a print-capable browser or document renderer for PDF…

It sits in Knowledge Management, covering Source-grounded notebooks and PDF. The repository describes itself as: Curated collection of AI agent skills for Hermes and other agent frameworks. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone wants an individualized itinerary
  • Travel field guide
  • Shareable travel website
  • Real-time booking

Example prompts

  • “/travel-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an Agent Skills-compatible host, access to current web sources for live travel facts, and a print-capable browser or document renderer for PDF output. Bundled Python scripts require Python 3.8+ and only the standard library.

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Establish the trip contract
  2. Handle personal context explicitly
  3. Research current facts
  4. Build the editorial model
  5. Render the artifacts
  6. Produce a shareable edition when requested

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 22b4723. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Requires an Agent Skills-compatible host, access to current web sources for live travel facts, and a print-capable browser or document renderer for PDF output. Bundled Python scripts require Python 3.8+ and only the standard library.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Travel Guide loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 151 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,114 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~151
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~7.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from magnus919/agent-skills at commit 22b4723, republished under its MIT licence (© magnus919). 1,114 words, ~2,359 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/travel-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 16 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
travel-guide
description
Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints. Ask only the questions that change the plan, use explicitly permitted personal context without exposing it, research current logistics, and produce a cited, visually coherent PDF or responsive companion web page. Use when someone wants an individualized itinerary, trip brief, travel field guide, or shareable travel website. Do not use for real-time booking, ticket purchasing, visa or legal advice, or generic destination summaries without a specific traveler and trip.
compatibility
Requires an Agent Skills-compatible host, access to current web sources for live travel facts, and a print-capable browser or document renderer for PDF output. Bundled Python scripts require Python 3.8+ and only the standard library.
license
MIT
metadata.category
travel
metadata.tags
travel, itinerary, trip-planning, dossier, pdf, web, personalization

Travel Guide

Create a commissioned travel dossier, not a generic list of attractions. The finished guide should answer: why this place, for these travelers, at this moment? It should leave room for discovery while making the trip feel considered.

When to use

Use this skill when the traveler wants one or more of the following:

  • an individualized itinerary or trip brief;
  • a beautifully designed travel PDF or printable field guide;
  • recommendations shaped by permitted preferences, constraints, or companions;
  • a shareable, responsive web page for travel companions;
  • a private and sanitized version of the same trip plan.

When not to use

  • For booking, purchasing tickets, changing reservations, or handling payment.
  • For visa, immigration, medical, safety, or legal decisions that require an authoritative professional or government source.
  • For a generic destination summary when there is no concrete traveler or trip.
  • For extracting text from an existing document. Route that to anydoc; it reads documents but does not author or validate them.

Progressive routing

Read only the references needed for the request:

NeedRead
Personal context, consent, pointed questions, or group trade-offsreferences/intake-and-personalization.md
Current places, hours, prices, reservations, transit, or source qualityreferences/research-and-evidence.md
Trip thesis, anchor selection, day structure, or editorial voicereferences/editorial-structure.md
Private/shareable editions or redactionreferences/privacy-and-sharing.md
HTML, PDF, print CSS, rendering, or visual QAreferences/pdf-rendering.md

Use templates/trip-brief.json as the structured source of truth. Use templates/dossier-outline.md when drafting content before entering JSON.

Workflow

Match the process to the request. A narrow question - one neighborhood, one restaurant, one transfer, one practical fact - can be answered directly with sources in a short reply. Run the full dossier pipeline only when the traveler wants a guide, PDF, companion page, or a multi-day plan. The dossier format is a deliverable choice, not an automatic output for every travel question.

1. Establish the trip contract

Collect, or confirm:

  • destination or route;
  • arrival and departure dates, or at least the intended season;
  • duration and approximate pace;
  • who is traveling and any real differences in needs;
  • budget range and currency, if relevant;
  • mobility, dietary, sensory, language, or booking constraints;
  • desired output: private PDF, shareable PDF, companion web page, or all three;
  • intended audience: the traveler, the travel party, or wider sharing. The working model is private by default; ask who the output is for when it is not clear.

If a missing answer would change the recommendations, ask a pointed question. Do not run a long questionnaire. Read the intake reference for the question budget and personalization boundary.

2. Handle personal context explicitly

If the host can retrieve user preferences or history, use only context that is relevant to this trip and permitted for this purpose. Internally classify each personal signal as known, relevant memory, hypothesis, ask first, or do not use. Never copy a raw private note into the guide. When personalization would be surprising, explain the relevant basis briefly or ask permission.

3. Research current facts

Research only what the guide needs. Prefer official venue, operator, transit, government, tourism-board, and booking sources. Record URLs and retrieval dates in the source ledger. Separate:

  • verified current facts;
  • editorial interpretation about fit;
  • estimates and assumptions;
  • facts that remain unknown.

Do not present a search snippet, stale memory, or unsourced price as current truth. Read the research reference before making logistics or cost claims.

4. Build the editorial model

Write a one- or two-sentence trip thesis. Select a small set of anchors rather than ranking everything. Every anchor must state why it fits these travelers, when it works best, what it costs or requires, and what could make it fail.

Shape each day around:

  1. one anchor;
  2. one meal, drink, or local texture;
  3. one walk, neighborhood, or ordinary-life encounter;
  4. one pause or recovery space;
  5. one weather, energy, or closure alternative.

Include a short “skip this” section when famous options are poor fits. Read the editorial reference before drafting the dossier.

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5. Render the artifacts

Work in a dedicated working folder for this trip: create one explicitly (for example $(mktemp -d) on macOS/Linux, or a named folder under the system temp directory) and keep the trip model, rendered HTML, sanitized editions, and PDFs there. Never write outputs into the skill directory or the user's home directory root. The examples below use $WORK for that folder.

Keep content separate from layout. Validate the content model first:

bash
python3 scripts/validate-trip-brief.py "$WORK/trip-brief.json" --strict --json

Render a print-oriented HTML dossier:

bash
python3 scripts/render-travel-guide.py "$WORK/trip-brief.json" \
  --mode dossier --output "$WORK/travel-dossier.html" --json

For a responsive companion page, use the same model:

bash
python3 scripts/render-travel-guide.py "$WORK/trip-brief.json" \
  --mode companion --output "$WORK/index.html" --json

The renderer embeds the bundled CSS and local image assets when possible. Use a print-capable browser or the repository's documents skill to turn the dossier HTML into a PDF. The PDF is not complete until it has been structurally checked and visually inspected. Read the PDF reference for the exact gate.

6. Produce a shareable edition when requested

Keep the private model as the source of truth. Create a sanitized copy rather than painting over a finished PDF:

bash
python3 scripts/sanitize-trip-brief.py "$WORK/trip-brief.json" \
  --profile shareable --output "$WORK/trip-brief-shareable.json" --json

Render and validate the sanitized model separately. Do not assume that a shareable version may expose exact dates, lodging, companions, addresses, booking identifiers, contact details, or private notes.

Required dossier sections

Adapt the length to the trip, but preserve the information hierarchy:

  1. cover: destination, trip line, duration/route, and image credit;
  2. the brief: the reason this trip fits these travelers;
  3. anchors: high-confidence experiences with fit and logistics;
  4. day architecture: anchors, texture, pauses, and alternatives;
  5. make it special: specific gestures that are not generic search results;
  6. practical field notes: transit, reservations, etiquette, costs, and caveats;
  7. skip this: attractive but poor-fit options, where useful;
  8. sources and freshness: links, retrieval dates, and unresolved uncertainty.

The visual default is a dark photographic cover with a route journey line, warm gold eyebrow, white headline, restrained red accent, generous white content pages, ghost section numbers, a color-coded day strip right after the brief, pace and budget meters, compact cards, a unified warm photo grade on anchor images, readable tables, and a bottom-of-page footer per section: a content- derived field note (failure mode, plan B, recheck item, or skip reason) when one exists, a next-section line, and a ghost route mark. Preserve contrast and selectable text. Do not let decoration hide uncertainty or practical caveats. The footer is informational, never a schedule: it repeats model content in one line, it does not invent new plans.

Exit criteria

Stop when all requested artifacts exist and:

  • the trip model passes the bundled validator;
  • current claims have source URLs and retrieval dates or are labeled uncertain;
  • the PDF has passed structural and visual QA, if requested;
  • a companion page has been checked at narrow and wide widths, if requested;
  • private and shareable outputs are clearly distinguished;
  • the delivery names the source model, renderer, validation result, and known limitations.

© magnus919, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 16 other files (scripts, references, assets) in travel-guide of magnus919/agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • assets/route-mark.svg
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/editorial-structure.md
  • references/intake-and-personalization.md
  • references/pdf-rendering.md
  • references/privacy-and-sharing.md
  • references/research-and-evidence.md
  • scripts/render-travel-guide.py
  • scripts/sanitize-trip-brief.py
  • scripts/validate-trip-brief.py
  • styles/travel-dossier.css
  • templates/dossier-outline.md
  • templates/trip-brief.json
  • … and 2 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 22b4723

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Questions about Travel Guide

What does Travel Guide do?

Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints. Travel Guide is an agent skill from magnus919/agent-skills. Create personalized, source-grounded travel dossiers from a destination, dates, duration, travelers, and constraints.

When should I use Travel Guide?

Travel Guide fits situations like: someone wants an individualized itinerary; travel field guide; shareable travel website; real-time booking.

How do I install Travel Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill travel-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (travel-guide in magnus919/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/travel-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Travel Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill travel-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (travel-guide in magnus919/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/travel-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Travel Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill travel-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/travel-guide, .gemini/skills/travel-guide, .github/skills/travel-guide and .opencode/skills/travel-guide in your project.

What does Travel Guide need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Travel Guide needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an Agent Skills-compatible host, access to current web sources for live travel facts, and a print-capable browser or document renderer for PDF output. Bundled Python scripts require Python 3.8+ and only the standard library..

Does Travel Guide access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Travel Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Travel Guide use?

Travel Guide is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Travel Guide use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Travel Guide?

magnus919 (a GitHub user) maintains it in magnus919/agent-skills, which has 115 GitHub stars. The repository holds 131 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: magnus919/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.