transfer-bonuses
Active credit card transfer bonuses from Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Rove. Weekly-refreshed data with confidence markers. Use when pricing an award booking that involves a points transfer or deciding whether to wait for a better bonus.
Profile →npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill transfer-bonuses --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.
# Transfer Bonuses Skill Authoritative reference for current credit card transfer bonuses. Reads from `data/transfer-bonuses.json`, which is refreshed weekly by `scripts/refresh-transfer-bonuses.py` (run automatically every Monday via `.github/workflows/refresh-data.yml`, and manually any time). The script scrapes Frequent Miler (canonical) and cross-checks each bonus against AwardWallet. Each active bonus carries a confidence marker (`VERIFIED` if both FM and AwardWallet agree, `LIKELY` if only FM, `UNVERIFIED` if single weak source) per the toolkit's Research Integrity Protocol. TPG is sometimes consulted manually as a sanity check but is NOT scraped programmatically — TPG often shows expired bonuses as active. ## The Expiry Gate (run this BEFORE citing any bonus) The data file is a snapshot; bonuses commonly end on month-end dates between refreshes. On 2026-07-07 the file listed 7 "active" bonuses of which 5 had ended a week earlier — an agent quoting the file raw would have priced a Chase→Marriott transfer at 1.55x when the real ratio was 1.0. So, mechanically, every time: 1. Get today's date. 2. For each bonus you're about to cite, compare `end_date_inclusive` to today. **Past
- The Expiry Gate (run this BEFORE citing any bonus)
- When to Use
- When NOT to Use
- Data File
- Refreshing the Data
- Quick Reference Output Format
- Computing Effective Cost
- Cross-References
- Source Hierarchy
- Avoiding Fabrication
python3 scripts/refresh-transfer-bonuses.py
What does the transfer-bonuses skill do?
Active credit card transfer bonuses from Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Rove. Weekly-refreshed data with confidence markers. Use when pricing an award booking that involves a points transfer or deciding whether to wait for a better bonus.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill transfer-bonuses --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 borski/travel-hacking-toolkit, a repository with 611 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.