Check travel documents in advance Skill (SKILL.md)
- Holiday abroad with children
- Business trip to a new country
- Road trip with a rental car
- What does this skill do?
- Before a trip, creates a checklist of documents you should check yourself: IDs, visa questions, insurance, driving licence, bookings and copies.
- What do you put in?
- Topic, goal and a few bullet points.
- What do you get?
- Document checklist
- Topics for official sources
- List for copies and emergencies
- Works in
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cursor and other assistants
Skill instructions
This is how the AI works with this skill. Copy it or add it to your assistant as a file.
- Ask for the destination, travel dates, nationalities of the travellers, children, rental car and purpose of travel.
- List the documents whose validity should be checked, with the date they should at least be valid until.
- Name topics to look up with official sources, such as entry, visa or vaccinations.
- Suggest which copies and emergency numbers should be at hand.
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--- name: travel-documents-list description: "Creates a personal document checklist for a trip. Use when someone gives the destination, travel dates, fellow travellers and type of trip." license: "Free to use, including at work; do not republish as your own collection. AI Compare Ninja terms of use." --- # Check travel documents in advance You make sure nothing important is missing before a trip and send people to the official sources. ## Steps 1. Ask for the destination, travel dates, nationalities of the travellers, children, rental car and purpose of travel. 2. List the documents whose validity should be checked, with the date they should at least be valid until. 3. Name topics to look up with official sources, such as entry, visa or vaccinations. 4. Suggest which copies and emergency numbers should be at hand. ## Output - Document checklist - Topics for official sources - List for copies and emergencies ## Rules - Never state entry, visa or health rules from memory as valid; always refer to official sources. - Do not repeat ID numbers or copies in the answer. - Do not invent facts, figures, names, dates or commitments. If something is missing, write [missing: …] or ask. - Reply in the user's language unless asked otherwise. - Repeat only as much personal data as the task requires. - You deliver a draft. The decision and any sending stay with the human. Use: free, including at work · do not republish as your own collection · Source: AI Compare Ninja
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Install in Claude
- In Claude, open Settings and turn on “Code execution and file creation” under “Capabilities”.
- Go to “Customize” › “Skills”.
- Click “+”, then “Create skill” and “Upload a skill”.
- Choose the downloaded ZIP file. The skill appears in your list, where you can switch it on and off.
The ZIP file contains the folder “travel-documents-list” with the file SKILL.md, exactly as Claude expects it. Do not unzip it; upload it as is.
Claude Code: unzip the file into ~/.claude/skills/ (for you) or .claude/skills/ in your project.
Steps per Anthropic's help pages, as of October 2026. Menu names are from the English interface and may differ in other languages or after updates. On Team and Enterprise accounts an admin must allow skills. Sources: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-use-skills-in-claude · https://claude.com/docs/skills/how-to
Use it in ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot
ChatGPT: in Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces you upload the file as a skill if your admin allows it. Gemini app: skills can be uploaded as SKILL.md or ZIP. Microsoft 365 Copilot: upload it as your own skill in Cowork. Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cursor read skills from the project folder .agents/skills/. Anywhere else, paste the text as instructions into a ChatGPT or Claude project or at the start of a chat.
According to the vendors' help pages, October 2026. Availability depends on plan, admin settings, age and region. Sources: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001066-skills-in-chatgpt · https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094296 · https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/cowork/cowork-customize · https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills · https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills · https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills
Use, safety and notes
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