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# Travel Assistant MCP
No-key travel assistant for Claude Desktop, Codex-style agent workflows, Hermes, and other MCP clients. It helps agents look up airports, compare routes, explain travel timing, and build external booking links without requiring a travel API account.
## Features
- Look up airport metadata by IATA code
- Compare alternate origin and destination airport routes
- Explain booking windows, airport arrival timing, layovers, and seasonal travel factors
- Build external booking links for selected routes
- Run locally with no API key or account setup
- Disclose commission-eligible links in tool output
## Install
```bash
npm install -g @forgemeshlabs/travel-assistant-mcp
```
## Claude Desktop
Add this to your Claude Desktop `claude_desktop_config.json`:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"travel-assistant": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/travel-assistant-mcp"]
}
}
}
```
Restart Claude Desktop after saving the config, then ask Claude to plan or compare travel routes.
Codex, Hermes, and other MCP-capable agent runtimes can use the same server command:
```bash
npx -y @forgemeshlabs/travel-assistant-mcp
```
## Local Run
```bash
npm run build
node dist/index.js
```
## Tools
- `search_travel_options`
- `get_airport_info`
- `compare_routes`
- `build_booking_link`
- `explain_travel_timing`
## Public Data Boundary
This package uses generic language for provider integrations. Tool responses may include external booking links and commission-eligible links. Booking completion happens with booking partners outside this MCP server.
