Travel Check in Pi

Questions it answers

Check what the UK and US governments currently advise about a country, and see live delays and weather at an airport.

Ask "what is the travel advice for Thailand?", "what are the entry requirements for Japan?", "compare Mexico, Colombia and Peru" or "is JFK delayed right now?".

Travel Check reads the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) travel advice on GOV.UK, the US State Department travel advisories, the FAA National Airspace System status and the NOAA Aviation Weather Center.

Every answer shows the advisory level or alert, the date it was last reviewed, and a link to the official page.

UK advice is written for British citizens and US advice for US citizens, and the answer says so: entry rules and risks differ by passport, so check your own government's advice. It does not include visa rules for other nationalities.

It is not medical, legal or safety advice and not for flight planning. Advisories change, so confirm on the official page before you travel. FAA delay data covers US airports only.

UK content is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, © Crown copyright. It stores nothing about you: answers are cached for a few hours, and the only lasting record is a daily count of calls per tool.

Short questions this server answers, each with a direct answer: Check government travel advice and airport delays.

What it can do

• Shows the UK FCDO travel advice alert and last review date for a country
• Shows the US State Department advisory level, summary and date for a country
• Quotes the UK entry requirements, safety or health section on request
• Compares the UK and US advice for up to five countries at once
• Reports FAA delays and closures at a US airport
• Shows the latest weather observation and forecast for an airport by IATA or ICAO code
• Links every answer to the official source and says which citizens the advice is written for

Tools

• get_travel_advice, Get travel advice. Use this when the user asks about the official travel advice, safety warnings or entry requirements for one country, such as "is it safe to travel to Thailand?" or "what are the entry requirements for Japan?". Returns: the UK FCDO alert (which parts of the country it advises against travelling to) with its review date and latest change, and the US State Department level (1 to 4), summary and date, with official links. Input tips: pass one country name or two-letter ISO code; set section to entry-requirements, safety or health to add that part of the UK advice. If status is ambiguous, ask the user to pick one of candidates and call again with that name. If uk or us is none or unavailable, report the other side and its link; do not guess. Not for: visa rules for other passports (UK advice is for British citizens, US advice for US citizens), medical advice, or calling a country safe in your own words.
• get_airport_status, Get airport status. Use this when the user asks about airport delays, closures or weather right now, such as "is JFK delayed?" or "what is the weather at Heathrow?". Returns: active FAA delays, ground stops and closures with reason and times (US airports only), the latest METAR observation (flight category, temperature, wind, visibility) and the raw TAF forecast. Input tips: pass the four-letter ICAO code (EGLL) for an airport outside the US, or the IATA code (JFK) for a US airport. If status is not_found, ask the user for the ICAO code and call again. Not for: looking up a flight by number (such as BA117), schedules, seats or whether a flight will leave on time, or for flight planning.
• compare_advisories, Compare travel advisories. Use this when the user wants to compare the travel advice for several countries side by side, such as "compare Mexico, Colombia and Peru" or "which of these countries has the highest advisory level?". Returns: for each country the UK FCDO alert and review date and the US State Department level (1 to 4) and date, with official links. Input tips: pass 1 to 5 country names or ISO codes. Check each country's own status: one can be not_found, or ambiguous with candidates to ask the user about, while the rest are ok. If uk or us is none or unavailable for a country, report the other side and its link; do not guess. Not for: the full text of one country (use get_travel_advice) or visa rules for other passports. UK advice is for British citizens and US advice for US citizens.

Add Travel Check in Pi

Pi does not speak MCP on its own. The pi-mcp-adapter extension (these steps match version 2.34.0) loads remote servers and keeps their schemas out of the prompt until you ask. Install it once, then restart Pi:

pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter

Add the server to a shared MCP file. Use .mcp.json in the project if only that project needs Travel Check, or ~/.config/mcp/mcp.json if you want it in every project. Pi also reads ~/.agents/mcp.json. A Pi-only override lives in ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json or .pi/mcp.json and wins over the shared file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel": {
      "url": "https://travel.openkrill.app/mcp",
      "lifecycle": "eager"
    }
  }
}

The url is enough. Do not set command: that field is for a local process. No API key header. lifecycle is eager so Pi connects at startup and can search tool names before the first call. A config that omits it still works: the first call connects. After restart, run /mcp and confirm the server is listed. Ask: What is the current travel advice for Thailand? The adapter should offer get_travel_advice, get_airport_status, compare_advisories.

Leave directTools off unless you want those schemas in every turn. With a handful of tools the cost is small. The default proxy is the better fit: search for the tool, then call it. /mcp disable travel writes a project override in .pi/mcp.json without editing the shared file. Run /reload after that change.

Pi will not find this server by scanning Cursor or Claude config unless you run /mcp setup and import it. Putting the url in .mcp.json is the direct path and the one this page tests against. The server is the same public endpoint the other clients use, with the same limits and the same privacy rules.

If it does not work

A call checked on 2026-10-17

Thailand is the country in the plugin's starter prompts. The answer is the published advisory, not a visa ruling. The request below was posted to https://travel.openkrill.app/mcp as tools/call. HTTP 200. Source: the Travel Check server, read 2026-10-17.

{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_travel_advice",
    "arguments": {
      "country": "Thailand"
    }
  }
}

• status. ok
• country. Thailand
• notice. Government advisory text with its date and source, for information only. It is not medical, legal or safety advice, and advisories change: confirm on the linked official page before you travel.
• uk name. Thailand
• uk status. ok
• us name. Thailand

Repeat the call yourself if you need a newer reading. Cached answers expire. A rate limit is not a result: wait and try again. Nothing in the call is a ranking, a filing, or advice.

Using it in production

Nothing to install and nothing to run: no package, no Python or Node.js version and no environment variable. Travel Check runs on our servers, and your client only needs the URL https://travel.openkrill.app/mcp.

Use it in other apps

• Travel Check in ChatGPT
• Travel Check in Claude
• Travel Check in Cursor
• Travel Check in VS Code

Roles that use Travel Check

• Travel planner guide

Frequently asked questions

Words on this page

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Source: plugin listing for travel in this repository, and a live tools/call on 2026-10-17. As of 2026-10-17.