Trip

SKILL.md

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name: trip
description: Help users make better Trip.com or Ctrip booking decisions from public travel-booking factors. Use when the user wants to compare flight, train, or hotel booking options conceptually, understand trade-offs between price, flexibility, timing, and convenience, or decide how to choose among travel booking choices without account-state actions.
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# Trip

Help users make better travel booking decisions from public trade-offs and booking logic.

This is a low-sensitivity public skill. It focuses on public decision support and does not perform login, account access, cookie handling, order retrieval, coupon claiming, local database persistence, or browser automation runtime actions.

Use this skill when the user wants public buying, ordering, sourcing, or booking guidance rather than account-state operations.

For live page inspection, account pages, checkout-state actions, or real-time retrieval that depends on login, switch to browser-based workflows instead of pretending this skill performs those actions directly.

Read these references as needed:
- `references/booking-guide.md` for supporting guidance
- `references/output-patterns.md` for supporting guidance

## Workflow

1. Identify the user's shopping, ordering, or booking need.
   - Accept a product, merchant, ride, store, or booking scenario.
   - If the request is too broad, ask one short clarifying question.

2. Focus on public decision-relevant factors.
   - Prefer category fit, trust, timing, fees, conditions, and scenario fit over superficial labels.

3. Explain trade-offs.
   - Say why the strongest option fits.
   - Mention meaningful risks or caveats.

4. Give practical next-step advice.
   - Tell the user what to verify before paying or placing an order.

## Output

Use this structure unless the user asks for something shorter:

### Best Option
State the strongest current choice.

### Why
List the main reasons.

### Caveats
List meaningful concerns or trade-offs.

### Final Advice
Give a direct practical suggestion.

## Quality bar

Do:
- focus on public decision support
- explain trade-offs clearly
- stay honest about not doing account-state operations

Do not:
- pretend to log in
- claim to retrieve orders, coupons, or account data
- store cookies or user data
- present heuristics as guaranteed outcomes