# preflight-api

> preflight-api — gsterlingpress-preflight-api. Use this tool when you need to optimize route selection for AI agents visiting URLs, as it provides pre-fetch routing intelligence to recommend the cheapest reliable route. It solves problems related to efficient data retrieval and minimizes costs associated with HTTP requests, browser interactions, or machine endpoint communications. The preflight-api takes a URL as input and returns a recommended route, such as HTTP, browser, machine endpoint, or avoidance, to inform the agent's decision-making process.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/gsterlingpress-preflight-api  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gsterlingpress-preflight-api

## Description

Provides pre-fetch routing intelligence for AI agents by recommending the cheapest reliable route (HTTP, browser, machine endpoint, or avoid) before visiting a URL.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.67
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-08-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/g37z8fsr5f)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/GSterlingPress/preflight-api>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "gsterlingpress-preflight-api"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gsterlingpress-preflight-api` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gsterlingpress-preflight-api/pull`

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