A command that decodes an international vehicle identification number (VIN), the unique code assigned to a vehicle, using the CarsXE service. It is intended for VINs from outside the United States.

Use it to retrieve a vehicle’s manufacturing country, make, model, year, engine, transmission, body style, and other information returned by the service. It requires a CarsXE API key.

It avoids manually interpreting a VIN or searching for vehicle details in multiple places.

intvin — Command for Claude Code by carsxe

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install carsxe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 17 commands.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 221 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00221
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00111
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00044
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00022

Measured 11d ago against content hash 73d63c456dd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intvin scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

carsxe/commands/intvin.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

CarsXE — International VIN Decoder

Decode an international VIN provided in $ARGUMENTS using the CarsXE International VIN Decoder API.

Steps

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract the VIN (required).
If no VIN is provided, ask: "Please provide an international VIN to decode (e.g., /carsxe:intvin WF0MXXGBWM8R43240)."

Make an HTTP GET request:

GET https://api.carsxe.com/v1/international-vin-decoder?key=<CARSXE_API_KEY>&vin=<VIN>&source=claude_plugin

Replace <CARSXE_API_KEY> with the value of the environment variable CARSXE_API_KEY.

Present the decoded information:
- Country of manufacture
- Make, Model, Year
- Engine & transmission details
- Body style
- Any other returned attributes
Note: this endpoint is optimized for non-US VINs (European, Asian manufacturers, etc.).
Handle errors gracefully.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 73d63c456dd6

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intvin is a command published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 221 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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intvin

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

CarsXE — International VIN Decoder

Steps

What this file has done since we first saw it

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