PriceWin Deal Finder
🚨 IMPORTANT — HOW TO USE THIS SKILL
ONE command does everything. Run this as your FIRST action — no clarifying questions first:
bash
cd {baseDir} && node bin/search.js "<city>" <checkInYYYY-MM-DD> <checkOutYYYY-MM-DD> <adults> en-us
is this skill's install directory (auto-resolved by the runtime). If your runtime does not substitute it,
into the folder that contains this
(the one with
). Do NOT hardcode a
or
path — it differs per platform.
Example:
bash
cd {baseDir} && node bin/search.js "Hangzhou" 2026-06-10 2026-06-13 2 en-us
The script handles everything automatically: daemon launch, Agoda cache lookup, Google + Booking inline search, OpenTravel API lookup (all cities), discovery for new cities, and formatted tier-card output. Just run it and send the output to the user.
DO NOT ask clarifying questions first. Just run the command. Infer all parameters:
- Year: use the current year from today's date unless the user states otherwise. If the requested day/month has already passed this year, assume next year. (Get today's date with if unsure.)
- "10-13/6" →
<year>-06-10 <year>-06-13
— fill from the rule above
- "2 guests" / "2 people" → adults
- Locale: language/region code passed to the OTAs (controls site language + region). Default . Prices are in USD (Google Hotels is requested with ); other sources follow the locale you pass.
DO NOT use any other approach. No Python scripts, no curl, no browser tools, no subagents. This one command is all you need.
🚨 CRITICAL RULES — FOLLOW EVERY TIME
RULE 0 — FORBIDDEN TOOLS. Read this twice. This skill drives a long-running Patchright daemon via the
tool ONLY. Your runtime exposes several other tools that LOOK convenient but are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN inside this skill:
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— FORBIDDEN
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❌ Any other
native tool — FORBIDDEN
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/ sub-agent delegation — FORBIDDEN
Why: those native tools spawn a vanilla Chromium without stealth, so Booking.com and Agoda detect the bot within seconds and the requests just hang until the runtime kills them with "Command timed out after 30/60 seconds". You will burn 5+ minutes on timeouts and the user will get nothing. The Patchright daemon launched via
survives bot-detection.
Delegated subagents start with empty history and no skill context — they will always fall back to Python/curl scraping, which gets bot-blocked immediately.
This skill must run entirely in the current agent, using only the tool.
✅ The ONLY allowed way to drive a browser in this skill is via
:
terminal: cd {baseDir} && node bin/search.js ...
RULE 1 — handles everything. NEVER scrape an OTA yourself. Do not manually call
commands, do not
/
/
in the browser, do not build Agoda/Booking/Google URLs by hand, do not call the OpenTravel API separately, do not try to launch the daemon yourself.
already drives the stealth daemon through a careful flow that survives bot-detection — it handles Agoda discovery internally for EVERY city (including Chinese cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc.).
Manually navigating an OTA is the #1 cause of failure: it trips Agoda/Booking anti-bot ("detect automation", "redirect to homepage", "problem completing your search") and gets the IP blocked. Your ONLY job is to run
once and send its output. If you think a source is "missing", re-read RULE 4 — do NOT go fetch it by hand.
RULE 2 — First-time city discovery takes 2–4 minutes. If
output contains
or
messages, tell the user: "First time searching this city — discovering selectors, this takes about 2–4 minutes..." and wait for the result. Do NOT retry or abort.
RULE 3 — Send the output exactly. outputs formatted tier cards ready to send. Copy the output directly into your response. Do not reformat, summarize, or abbreviate it.
RULE 3a — PRESERVE MARKDOWN HYPERLINKS. Every hotel name in the output is already wrapped as
[Hotel Name](https://booking-url...)
. This is a clickable hyperlink — DO NOT:
- Strip the markdown and show the URL on a separate line
- Replace with plain text
- Capitalize OTA names ("google" stays "google", not "Google")
- Rename sections — "📋 More good deals" stays exactly
The output is Telegram-MarkdownV2-ready. Sending it as-is gives the user clickable hotel names with hidden URLs (clean UI).
RULE 3b — If you DO add a suggestion / commentary section after the output, every hotel name you mention MUST also be a markdown hyperlink using the SAME URL the script printed for that hotel. Never write a hotel name as plain text in your own commentary.
RULE 4 — Partial results are NORMAL and acceptable. Never "fix" them by hand. A source can be absent from the output (e.g. Agoda blocked this run, or OpenTravel has no inventory for the city). That is FINE — send the tier cards with whatever sources are present. The footer (
📊 N hotels | <sources> • prices in USD
) lists exactly what was found.
Do NOT try to fetch the missing source via the browser, a direct URL, or any other tool — that triggers anti-bot and makes things worse. If
errors out entirely, tell the user what failed in 1 line and show any partial output it printed above the error. If you want more coverage, the only valid retry is running the SAME
command again (anti-bot is often transient).
Output Format Reference
prints tier cards in this format — you send this directly to the user:
The hotel name is a Markdown link to its cheapest OTA. Price rows carry NO
links and the OTA key is shown lowercase (
/
/
/
).
There are no star ratings or area lines — the script does not have that data.
🏨 <city> • <d1>–<d2> • <N> nights • <adults> guests
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🥇 BEST VALUE
[<Hotel Name>](<cheapest_link>)
✅ agoda 💰 <price>/night
booking 💰 <price>/night
opentravel 💰 <price>/night
→ Save <diff> vs Booking
🥈 CHEAPEST
[<Hotel Name>](<cheapest_link>)
✅ google 💰 <price>/night
agoda 💰 <price>/night
🥉 QUALITY
[<Hotel Name>](<cheapest_link>)
✅ booking 💰 <price>/night
agoda 💰 <price>/night
📋 More good deals
— Agoda —
• [<Hotel>](<agoda_link>) — agoda: <price> | booking: <price>
— Booking —
• [<Hotel>](<booking_link>) — booking: <price>
— Google —
• [<Hotel>](<google_link>) — google: <price>
— OpenTravel —
• [<Hotel>](<opentravel_link>) — opentravel: <price>
💡 Tip: <best Hotel Name>
[Book on <OTA>](<link>) — <price>/night
📊 <N> hotels | <sources with data> • prices in USD
All prices are shown in USD. Agoda, Google and OpenTravel geo-lock to VND by IP and are converted via a live FX rate; Booking returns USD natively. Only sources that actually returned data are listed in the footer.
Limitations
- First search per city pays the Agoda discovery cost (2–4 minutes). Google and Booking are inline (no discovery); OpenTravel is a direct API call.
- Subsequent searches reuse the Agoda cache and complete in ~30–60 seconds.