flight-tracker
Track live aircraft positions with zero API keys — adsb.lol's open ADS-B network primary, OpenSky fallback, via curl: by callsign, registration, or area. Use when asked where is this flight right now, what planes are overhead, track a tail number, or is that flight in the air. Produces the live position with altitude, speed, and heading interpreted, the overhead list for a location, and the rerunnable command — with the positions-not-schedules boundary stated honestly.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill flight-tracker --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Flight Tracker Skill "Where's that flight right now?" has a genuinely open answer: hobbyist ADS-B receiver networks share live aircraft transponder data keylessly — adsb.lol serves it clean, OpenSky backs it up. This skill queries by callsign, hex, or area, and translates transponder math into human answers ("over Poland at 38,000 ft, ~40 minutes from Warsaw-ish airspace"). It's equally honest about the boundary: this is *positions*, not airline operations — gate changes, delays, and cancellations live in keyed commercial services, and pretending otherwise produces confident fiction. ## What This Skill Produces - **The position** — where the aircraft is now: location in words, altitude, ground speed, heading, climb/descent - **The overhead list** — aircraft above/near a point, sorted by distance - **The interpretation** — cruise vs. descent, direction of travel, rough progress — labeled as inference from position data - **The command** — exact curl, rerunnable — and the boundary line when the question was schedule-shaped ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The identifier** — callsign (what ATC uses: `BAW123`, often ≈ flight number with the airline's ICAO prefix
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Network and the Boundary
- Output Format
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the flight-tracker skill do?
Track live aircraft positions with zero API keys — adsb.lol's open ADS-B network primary, OpenSky fallback, via curl: by callsign, registration, or area. Use when asked where is this flight right now, what planes are overhead, track a tail number, or is that flight in the air. Produces the live position with altitude, speed, and heading interpreted, the overhead list for a location, and the rerunnable command — with the positions-not-schedules boundary stated honestly.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill flight-tracker --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.