trvl Trip Planner

Use this skill when the user wants a vacation, holiday, weekend getaway, or general trip plan.

Inputs

Collect only missing facts:

• Origin or home airport.
• Destination city or airport.
• Departure and return dates, or a flexible window.
• Traveller count, budget, cabin, bags, and hotel constraints when relevant.

Always load preferences first through travel with intent="get_preferences" or by calling the compatibility alias directly. Do not re-ask values already present in the traveller profile. If the request is underspecified, ask at most three questions or call interview_trip when available.

Workflow

1. Normalize airports, dates, guests, currency, and bag posture from the user

request plus profile.

1. Call travel with intent="plan_trip" and params containing origin,

destination, depart_date, return_date, guests, and currency.

1. Use travel with intent="search_flights" when the user needs more flight options, a specific

airline/alliance/cabin, direct-only filtering, baggage-aware pricing, or a cheaper fallback than plan_trip returned.

1. Use travel with intent="search_accommodations" when recommending where

to stay. It matches the requested room/apartment type, occupancy, amenities, refundability, and total price before ranking. Use intent="search_hotels_with_details" when comparing a known short hotel list by rooms, rates, and amenities; use intent="search_hotels" only for broad discovery, district filtering, stars/rating constraints, or debugging.

1. Use travel with intent="assess_trip" and dates/passport when nationality

is known or visa/weather viability matters.

1. Use travel with intent="detect_travel_hacks" after flight search unless

the user explicitly says not to optimize.

Output

Return an assessed itinerary, not raw tool dumps:

• Recommended booking path with total estimated cost and currency.
• Flight shortlist with all-in baggage/status notes when available.
• Hotel shortlist with neighborhood, rating, cancellation, and price notes.
• Viability result from assess_trip: GO, WAIT, or NO_GO.
• "Naive -> Optimized -> Saved" comparison when optimization or hacks changed

the recommendation.

• Follow-up searches only when they would materially improve the plan.

If native mcp__trvl__travel is unavailable, use mcp__gateway__gateway_invoke with server="trvl" and tool="travel". Exact legacy tool names remain callable as compatibility aliases.