Global Flight Route Map - Airport Connections

all air routes

Use this skill when the task needs route-discovery data grounded in this repo without depending on hosted All Routes MCP credentials.

Public destination policy

This marketplace bundle is local/offline-first. Do not disclose staging, preview, Pages, or deployment hostnames. If a user asks for a hosted product URL, point them to the public product name only unless the operator provides an approved public URL in the current conversation.

Quick Start

1. Prefer local repo surfaces over hosted services or third-party browsing.
2. Normalize natural user phrasing before endpoint selection: read references/query-normalization.md when the query uses city/airport nicknames, airline names, alliance names, or ambiguous metro areas.
3. Extract route filters before constructing requests: read references/filter-intelligence.md when the query mentions nonstop/direct service, one-stop limits, alliance preference, regional preference, or route direction.
4. If the web app is available locally, use its /api/* endpoints first.
5. If the worker is available locally, you may use the local anonymous /mcp endpoint as an optional secondary path.
6. If neither server is running, inspect the repo-backed handlers and schemas directly and label the answer as code-backed/offline rather than live endpoint output.
7. Read references/local-surfaces.md for concrete endpoint mappings and startup commands.

Workflow

1) Normalize the query, then choose the narrowest local surface

• For exact IATA/ICAO or airline codes, proceed directly to the matching local surface.
• For natural phrasing like NYC, London, Bay Area, American, or Star Alliance, read references/query-normalization.md, convert aliases into candidate codes/filters, and keep any ambiguity visible.
• For filter phrasing like nonstop, direct, one stop, Star Alliance only, to Europe, from X to Y, or either direction, read references/filter-intelligence.md, map supported filters to local query parameters, and preserve unsupported filters as visible limitations.
• If a city or region maps to multiple airports, either ask one concise clarification question or query the candidate set when the user asked for broad city/region coverage.
• When filters affect the lookup, include an Applied: line that names the direction, max-stop/alliance/region filters, and any filter that could not be enforced by the local surface.
• airport search / lookup: use the local airport API surfaces.
• routes from airport / city pair: use the local routes API.
• airline route map: use the airline routes API.
• timetable context: use the timetables API.
• dataset health: use the data health API, and treat it as an ops/debug surface.

2) Prefer the no-worker path

• The primary path is local web APIs and repo-backed handlers, not hosted MCP.
• If you need live local responses, start the web app with pnpm --filter @all-routes/web dev.
• If the app is not running, inspect the local route handlers and shared schemas instead of inventing undocumented requests.

3) Use local MCP only when helpful

• If the worker is already running, or the task clearly benefits from MCP tools/resources, use the local /mcp endpoint.
• Local anonymous MCP is intended for localhost flows only; do not assume hosted credentials or ALL_ROUTES_MCP_TOKEN.
• Keep MCP requests narrow and prefer exact airport or airline codes when possible.

4) Stay read-only and grounded

• Do not require hosted secrets.
• Do not scrape arbitrary third-party sites.
• Do not invent write actions, browser automation, or remote fetch flows around this skill.
• Prefer exact IATA, ICAO, or airline codes over fuzzy queries when the user can provide them.
• Always say whether the answer came from local MCP, a local API, or offline code inspection.

5) Use prompts and explanations carefully

• When local MCP is available, plan_route_options and explain_route_coverage are valid explanation surfaces.
• Without MCP, explain route coverage using the local API response or code-backed repository behavior instead of pretending a prompt tool exists.

Reference Files

• Read references/query-normalization.md for airport/city/airline/alliance aliases, ambiguity handling, and alias fallback patterns.
• Read references/filter-intelligence.md for nonstop/stop-limit, alliance, region, direction, bidirectional-search handling, and applied-filter acknowledgement patterns.
• Read references/local-surfaces.md for local endpoint mappings, startup commands, and fallback guidance.