Pp Travelclick

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TravelClick — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the travelclick-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install travelclick --cli-only

2. Verify: travelclick-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/travelclick/cmd/travelclick-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

TravelClick/iHotelier powers the direct-booking widget for thousands of independent and boutique hotels. This CLI calls the same JSON API the widget itself uses to search availability, scan a date range for the lowest rate, validate corporate/group codes, and compare several hotels side by side. Search and info only -- no reservation, no guest PII, no payment data ever touches it.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when checking a specific independent or boutique hotel's own direct rates -- price-matching against an OTA, finding the cheapest date for a stay, validating a corporate or event code, or comparing a handful of TravelClick-powered properties for the same trip.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI to make or modify a reservation -- it is search/info only and has no booking command by design.
• Do not use this CLI for hotels that don't use TravelClick/iHotelier as their booking engine -- check that the hotel's booking URL is bookings.travelclick.com first.
• Do not use this CLI to look up a guest's existing reservation, loyalty account, or payment details -- those require guest login and are out of scope.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Cross-hotel local queries

• rates compare — Check several boutique hotels for the same dates in one call, ranked by lowest fee-inclusive total.

  Reach for this when the user names more than one property for the same trip instead of calling 'rates search' repeatedly.

  travelclick-pp-cli rates compare --hotels 102306,<id2>,<id3> --check-in 2026-09-15 --check-out 2026-09-18

• rates cheapest-night — Scan several hotels' calendars at once and return the single best hotel+date combination.

  Reach for this when the user is flexible on both hotel and date, not just date.

  travelclick-pp-cli rates cheapest-night --hotels made-nyc,<alias2> --from 2026-09-01 --to 2026-10-31

• codes check-all — Test one corporate or group code against every saved hotel at once.

  Reach for this when the user has a code but isn't sure which of their saved hotels honors it.

  travelclick-pp-cli codes check-all ACME2026 --type corporate --hotels made-nyc,<alias2>

Local state that compounds

• hotels alias — Give a memorable name to a TravelClick hotel ID instead of memorizing a 6-digit number.

  Reach for this before repeated lookups against the same property so later commands can take the alias instead of the raw ID.

  travelclick-pp-cli hotels alias add made-nyc 102306

• analytics price-drift — Track how a hotel's rates move over time from your own saved search history.

  Reach for this after the user has run a few 'rates search --save' calls and wants to know if a rate went up or down.

  travelclick-pp-cli analytics price-drift --hotel 102306

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Discovery Signals

This CLI was generated with browser-observed traffic context.

• Capture coverage: 5 API entries from 5 total network entries
• Protocols: rest_json (75% confidence)
• Auth signals: bearer_token — headers: Authorization
• Candidate command ideas: create_multi_room — Derived from observed POST /ibe-shop/v1/hotel/{hotel_id}/basicavail/multi-room traffic.; get_TEST123 — Derived from observed GET /ibe-codes/v1/hotel/{hotel_id}/specialcodes/corporate/TEST123 traffic.; get_avail — Derived from observed GET /ibe-shop/v1/hotel/{hotel_id}/avail traffic.; get_info — Derived from observed GET /ibe-entity/v1/hotel/{hotel_id}/info traffic.
• Caveats: error_status_cluster: Endpoint cluster only observed error HTTP statuses.; error_status_cluster: Endpoint cluster only observed error HTTP statuses.

Command Reference

codes — Validate special rate codes (corporate/rate-access or group-attendee) against a hotel before applying them to a search.

• travelclick-pp-cli codes validate-corporate — Check whether a corporate / rate-access code is valid for this hotel.
• travelclick-pp-cli codes validate-group — Check whether a group-attendee code is valid for this hotel.

hotel — Read-only hotel property information: address, policies, check-in/out times, and amenities. No PII, no reservation data.

• travelclick-pp-cli hotel <hotel_id> — Fetch a hotel's public profile: name, address, geolocation, check-in/out times, accepted cards

rates — Search room availability and rate plans for specific dates, or scan a date range for the cheapest night.

• travelclick-pp-cli rates calendar — Scan a date range (up to ~60 days)
• travelclick-pp-cli rates search — Search available rooms and rate plans for a hotel between check-in and check-out.

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

travelclick-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Cheapest room+rate for a stay

travelclick-pp-cli rates search 102306 --check-in 2026-09-15 --check-out 2026-09-18 --agent --select roomStays.roomTypes.roomTypeName,roomStays.roomTypes.averageRates.rate,roomStays.roomTypes.averageRates.rateExternalCode

Narrows the deeply-nested avail response to just room name, rate, and rate code per plan instead of the full policy/amenity/image payload.

Find the cheapest night in a month

travelclick-pp-cli rates calendar 102306 --from 2026-09-01 --to 2026-09-30 --json

Returns the lowest rate for every day in the range so you can sort for the minimum.

Check a corporate code before searching

travelclick-pp-cli codes validate-corporate 102306 ACME2026

Confirms whether a rate-access code is live for this hotel. Validating a code does not currently let you search rates for it — see Known Limitations below before assuming this recipe's name describes the full workflow.

Compare three boutique hotels for the same weekend

travelclick-pp-cli rates compare --hotels 102306,<id2>,<id3> --check-in 2026-09-15 --check-out 2026-09-18

Fans out the search across hotels and ranks them by lowest fee-inclusive total.

Known Limitations

No way to search rates for a specific corporate/rate-access code. codes validate-corporate and codes validate-group can only confirm whether a code is valid — rates search has no --corporate-code, --rate-plan-id, or equivalent parameter to actually filter results to that code's rate plan once validated. Confirmed by checking the discovery sample for codes validate-corporate: the only captured response is a 404 (INVALID_CORP_ID, from testing an intentionally-fake TEST123 code) — discovery never observed what a successful validation returns, so neither the generator nor this CLI's author ever saw whether that response carries a rate plan ID, a discount code, or anything rates search could consume. The "Check a corporate code before searching" recipe above validates the code but cannot actually chain into a filtered search; treat it as a standalone validity check only.

Real, verified workaround: the booking widget itself accepts a page-level RatePlanId query parameter that pre-selects a specific corporate rate — https://reservations.travelclick.com/{hotel_id}?RatePlanId={id} (redirects to bookings.travelclick.com/{hotel_id}?RatePlanId={id}#/guestsandrooms). Verified working directly against a real hotel ID with a valid corporate RatePlanId: the page loads with that specific negotiated rate pre-selected under Accommodations, and its real price is readable from the rendered page. This is a page-level UI parameter, not a confirmed /ibe-shop/v1/hotel/{hotel_id}/avail API query parameter — it was not captured at the network level, only observed working through the rendered widget, so it cannot be wired into rates search's params without a fresh discovery pass that captures the underlying API call while this URL parameter is present. Until then, a specific corporate rate's real price has to be read from the widget directly (this URL pattern), not from this CLI. (The specific hotel/rate-plan pair used to verify this is omitted deliberately: pairing a real RatePlanId with the corporation it belongs to discloses that company's negotiated pricing to anyone who reads this file, so treat any RatePlanId you test with as sensitive and don't publish it alongside the company name.)

If you have a real corporate/rate-access code to test with: re-running discovery's browser-sniff against codes validate-corporate with that valid code (not TEST123) would capture the missing successful-response shape, and re-sniffing avail while the widget has a RatePlanId selected would likely surface the real API-level parameter name. Either capture would unblock a durable fix; noting this so it doesn't require re-discovering the gap from scratch.

Auth Setup

TravelClick's widget mints a short-lived (~1 hour) OAuth2 client_credentials Bearer token client-side during page load. The exact token-mint endpoint was not isolated during discovery (it fires before any capture hook can attach), so this CLI cannot mint its own token yet -- capture one manually: open the hotel's booking page in Chrome, open DevTools' Network tab, filter for api.travelclick.com, click any request, and copy the Authorization header's value (everything after 'Bearer ') into TRAVELCLICK_TOKEN. Re-capture roughly every hour.

Run travelclick-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  travelclick-pp-cli rates search mock-value --check-in 2026-01-15 --check-out 2026-01-15 --agent --select timeSpan,roomTypes,allRoomTypes

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Explicit confirmation — --agent does not imply --yes; pass --yes separately only after the target, arguments, and side effects are clear

• Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.

Paths and state

Agents should treat the CLI's path resolver as part of the runtime contract:

• Use --home <dir> for one invocation, or set TRAVELCLICK_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.

• Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: TRAVELCLICK_CONFIG_DIR, TRAVELCLICK_DATA_DIR, TRAVELCLICK_STATE_DIR, TRAVELCLICK_CACHE_DIR.

• Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, TRAVELCLICK_HOME, XDG (XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME), then platform defaults.

• config contains settings like config.toml and profiles. data contains credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, and auth sidecars. state contains persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log. cache contains regenerable HTTP/cache files.

• Stored secrets live in credentials.toml under the data dir. Existing legacy config.toml secrets are read for compatibility and leave config.toml on the first auth write.

• Run travelclick-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to surface path and credential-location warnings. agent-context exposes a schema v4 paths block for agents that need the resolved dirs.

• For MCP, pass relocation through the MCP host config. The MCP binary does not inherit CLI flags:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "travelclick": {
        "command": "travelclick-pp-mcp",
        "env": {
          "TRAVELCLICK_HOME": "/srv/travelclick"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use TRAVELCLICK_HOME or per-kind vars as durable fleet levers, and use --home only for a single invocation. Relocation is not reversible by unsetting env vars; move files manually before clearing TRAVELCLICK_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Automatic learning

This CLI ships a self-capturing learning loop. The CLI does its own bookkeeping: every invocation is journaled locally, a failed flag followed by a corrected retry auto-derives a flag_alias candidate, and a teach on a query family without a playbook auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal. Your job is judgment only: recall first, act on surfaced candidates, teach the final answer, playbook amend when you observe a correction. You never record failures by hand.

Step 1: recall before any discovery

Before list/search/drill commands on a new user question, run:

travelclick-pp-cli recall "<user's question>" --agent

The response envelope:

{
  "query": "...",
  "normalized": "<normalized form>",
  "query_entities": ["..."],
  "found": true | false,
  "match_score": 0.0,
  "results": [
    { "resource_id": "...", "resource_type": "...", "venue": "...",
      "confidence": 2, "entity_match": "exact|partial|unknown",
      "source": "taught|preseed|pattern", "warnings": ["..."] }
  ],
  "mismatches": [ /* only when --debug-mismatches */ ],
  "warnings": [ /* top-level */ ],
  "candidates": [
    { "id": 12, "class": "flag_alias | playbook_candidate",
      "summary": "...", "sightings": 3, "last_seen": "...",
      "rationale": "...",
      "next_action": ["<trial command>", "travelclick-pp-cli learnings confirm 12"] }
  ],
  "playbook": {
    "query_family": "...",
    "playbook": {
      "steps": [ { "cmd": "<command with {slot} substitution>", "purpose": "..." } ],
      "entity_slots": ["$ENTITY"],
      "expected_tool_calls": 3
    },
    "slots_resolved": { "$ENTITY": { "token": "<live token>", "canonical": "<canonical>" } },
    "notes": "<workarounds + gotchas for this query family>"
  },
  "notes": "<duplicate surface for non-playbook callers>"
}

Empty-store short-circuit: if the store has no learnings, playbooks, or candidates yet (recall finds nothing and learnings list and learnings candidates are both empty), skip recall for the rest of this session instead of taxing every query; resume recall-first once something has been taught.

Step 2: decision tree

Read candidates, playbook, notes, results[0], and warnings in that order:

if Candidates present (warnings include "candidates_present"):
    -> candidates are try-then-confirm, never facts. Follow each candidate's
       two-step next_action verbatim: run the trial command first, then run
       `learnings confirm <id>` only after the trial verified the behavior.
       Reject a wrong candidate with `learnings reject <id>`.
    -> NEVER re-teach something recall surfaced as a candidate; confirm or
       reject that candidate instead of teaching a duplicate.
    -> candidates ride alongside playbooks and resource hits, not instead of
       them; continue with the branches below after acting on them.

if Playbook present:
    -> READ Playbook.notes verbatim FIRST (workarounds + gotchas the CLI surface doesn't expose)
    -> replay Playbook.steps in order, substituting Playbook.slots_resolved entries
       for the entity slot tokens. If a step's slot is unresolved, fall back to
       discovery for that step only.
    -> the Playbook's expected_tool_calls is a budget; if you find yourself running
       materially more, record the divergence via `travelclick-pp-cli playbook amend`
       at end-of-session.

elif Notes present (no Playbook):
    -> read Notes verbatim before any discovery step; they carry known gotchas
       for this query family even when no structured choreography exists yet.

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "exact" AND Results[0].Confidence >= 2:
    -> skip discovery; fetch live data for Results[*].ResourceID in parallel

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "partial":
    -> candidate hint, NOT a hit; read the resource title to validate before trusting

elif (any row in Mismatches[] when --debug-mismatches was passed):
    -> treat as cold start; the stored learning is for a different entity
       (different canonical resolved from query_entities)

else:  // Found == false, no playbook, no notes
    -> cold start; run discovery normally; teach the answer afterward (Step 4).
       If the family has no playbook yet, that teach auto-synthesizes a
       playbook candidate from this session's journal - you do not need to
       record one by hand.

Playbook and Notes are orthogonal to the per-resource path. A recall response can carry both a Playbook AND a Results[] hit - use both: the Playbook tells you which choreography to run; the resource hits short-circuit specific steps. Default to skipping mismatches; pass --debug-mismatches only when investigating cold-start surprises.

Candidate judgment details: learnings confirm <id> prints the candidate's full payload before materializing it - check that the printed payload matches the behavior you verified. learnings reject <id> tombstones the derivation signature so the same candidate does not resurface. The envelope carries only the few candidates worth acting on now; travelclick-pp-cli learnings candidates lists the full open set.

Graceful degradation: if learnings confirm is an unknown command, you are driving an older binary - ignore the candidates guidance and follow the rest of the protocol.