A professional-grade travel data integration skill for querying real-time aviation and railway information via the Variflight API.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install variflight
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install variflight using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Variflight?
The Variflight skill is a powerful tool designed for the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, enabling AI assistants and developers to access comprehensive travel datasets. By interfacing directly with the Variflight HTTP API, this skill allows for the retrieval of live flight status, punctuality metrics, and railway ticket availability without complex dependencies.
Built with a focus on reliability and speed, the skill provides a bridge between AI agents and professional travel intelligence. Whether you are building a travel assistant or an automated logistics tracker, this integration ensures your Openclaw Skills have access to the most accurate airport weather, flight comfort indices, and multi-modal transit data available.
Variflight Use Cases
- Real-time tracking of flight status and punctuality using flight numbers or routes.
- Automated searching for train tickets and station information for railway travel planning.
- Monitoring airport weather forecasts to provide proactive travel delay alerts.
- Analyzing flight comfort levels through the proprietary happiness index metric.
- Planning complex multi-modal itineraries that combine both aviation and railway segments.
How Variflight Works
- The skill receives a travel-related query containing parameters like airport codes (e.g., PEK, SHA) or flight numbers.
- It authenticates with the Variflight server using the provided API key stored in environment variables or configuration files.
- A POST request is sent to the Variflight MCP data endpoint with the relevant tool parameters.
- The system retrieves structured JSON data containing real-time travel information.
- The results are parsed and delivered to the AI agent or CLI for immediate action within the Openclaw Skills framework.
Variflight Setup
To get started with this skill in your Openclaw Skills environment, follow these steps:
# Clone the skill repository
git clone https://github.com/variflight-ai/variflight-skill.git
# Configure your API key as an environment variable
export VARIFLIGHT_API_KEY="sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
# Or create a persistent configuration file
echo '{"api_key": "sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}' > ~/.variflight.json
# Install via the Openclaw CLI
openclaw skill install variflight
Variflight Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes travel data into specialized categories to ensure high-precision responses:
| Category | Endpoints | Data Points |
|---|---|---|
| Flights | flights, flight, realtimeLocation |
Status, aircraft location, dep/arr times. |
| Railway | trainStanTicket, searchTrainStations |
Ticket availability, station codes, routes. |
| Weather | futureAirportWeather |
Forecasts for specific IATA airport codes. |
| Metrics | happiness, getFlightPriceByCities |
Comfort index and historical pricing data. |
Variflight Advanced Features
- Multi-modal trip planning support for integrated air-to-rail transitions.
- Real-time aircraft location tracking via tail number lookup.
- Native compatibility with Openclaw Skills automated workspace loading.
- Flexible configuration hierarchy supporting project-level, user-level, and XDG standards.
- High-resolution flight comfort data including legroom and aircraft age metrics.
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