Why We Opened TourClaim to AI Agents

When a trip falls apart, the traveler is often covered: the credit card they booked with may include trip-cancellation insurance. Many never file. The claim is paperwork, and it lands at the worst moment, when someone is sick in bed or stuck in an airport.

The problem we are solving

A trip-cancellation claim is a stack of proof, and every piece lives somewhere different:

• The booking: the confirmation and the receipt, somewhere in an inbox.
• The cancellation policy: the merchant's terms, which show the money cannot come back any other way.
• The card statement: proof the trip was paid with the covered card.
• Proof of the reason: a doctor's note for an illness or injury, the airline's cancellation notice, official weather records for a storm.
• A signed authorization, so someone can file on the traveler's behalf.

A claim with a missing piece comes back, and each round trip costs weeks. Deadlines run from the day of the loss. People give up, and money they are owed stays with the insurer.

Where an assistant helps

A traveler's AI assistant is often already holding most of that stack. It saw the booking email. It saw the airline's text at 5 a.m. It knows the trip date. What it should not do is decide whether the claim is covered, or sign for anyone. So we split the job:

1. The assistant gathers. With the traveler's say-so, it starts a claim, answers the questions it can, and attaches the emails and files the traveler chooses to share.
2. The traveler confirms and signs, in their own browser. No agent can sign a claim.
3. TourClaim does the rest. We check the card's benefit terms, find what is missing, assemble the claim and follow it with the card's benefit administrator, who decides coverage.

The doctor's note, the piece claims most often lack

When the reason is an illness or injury, the claim needs a note from a medical provider, and plenty of people do not have one: they stayed in bed instead of going to a clinic.

When that happens, a licensed provider in our network reviews the medical questions the traveler answered and, when the facts support it, writes the note. It is asynchronous: no appointment, no video call, nowhere to go. In rare cases the provider calls with a follow-up question. An assistant can help collect the answers; only the provider decides.

What we built first, with Muse

Our first connection was for Muse, Meta's AI assistant: a REST API with a published OpenAPI description. The rules we set for it are the rules for every agent:

• The traveler signs in by email and approves the connection before any key exists. Keys are per traveler, scoped, revocable, and expire after 30 days.
• We never read anyone's inbox. The traveler picks the emails and files to share, and text from an email is treated as evidence, never as instructions.
• Files are limited to PDFs and images, checked for type and size.
• Status calls return the traveler's own claims and their next step, nothing internal.

We submitted it to Meta's connector directory in September. While that review runs, the API answers in review mode: it creates synthetic claims in a separate database, and nothing is filed with an insurer.

Opening it to other agents

The same pattern works for other assistants acting for one traveler. The tourclaim CLI and Python SDK are now available on npm and PyPI: install with npm install -g tourclaim or pip install tourclaim, or try npx tourclaim --help. Agents should read the agent instructions and use --json. The CLI uses the same review API: claims are synthetic, nothing is filed, billed or sent to a clinician, and only fictional data should be used.

TourClaim 0.2.0 includes an optional local MCP adapter for stdio-capable assistants. It uses the same synthetic review API and traveler browser sign-in as the Python CLI. There is no hosted MCP endpoint; the former operator MCP service remains decommissioned.

• Building an agent? Read how to connect your agent to TourClaim.
• Running tours? Read how your support agent can start the claim.

GET https://app.getcopernican.com/api/agent-access

curl -X POST https://app.getcopernican.com/api/agent-access \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "requested_by": "agent",
    "contact_email": "the-person-you-work-for@example.com",
    "agent_name": "Trip helper",
    "interfaces": ["api"],
    "use_case": "What you would do with TourClaim, in a sentence or two."
  }'