recalls

recalls is a command for Claude Code from carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin. It costs 0 tokens per session (257 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that checks a vehicle's open safety recalls using its VIN, the vehicle identification number.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve recall campaign numbers, affected components, defect descriptions, available remedies, dates, and repair status from CarsXE.
Why use it?
It replaces a manual recall lookup and reports whether each listed problem has been repaired.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the carsxe plugin — 16 skills, 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to retrieve recall campaign numbers, affected components, defect descriptions, available remedies, dates, and repair status from CarsXE.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin/recalls
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 257 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00257
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00129
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured today against content hash ae818c6c88e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recalls 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 today.

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/recalls.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

CarsXE — Vehicle Recalls

Check for active recalls on a vehicle using the VIN provided in $ARGUMENTS.

Steps

  1. Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract the VIN (required).
  2. If no VIN is provided, ask: "Please provide a VIN to check for recalls (e.g., /carsxe:recalls WBAFR7C57CC811956)."
  3. Make an HTTP GET request:
    GET https://api.carsxe.com/v1/recalls?key=<CARSXE_API_KEY>&vin=<VIN>&source=claude_plugin
    
    Replace <CARSXE_API_KEY> with the value of the environment variable CARSXE_API_KEY.
  4. Present recall information clearly:
    • Number of open recalls
    • For each recall: campaign number, component affected, description of defect, remedy available, date
    • Whether each recall has been remedied
  5. If no recalls are found, clearly confirm the vehicle has no open recalls.
  6. Handle errors gracefully.

Notes

  • For year/make/model with no VIN use /carsxe:recalls-ymm.
  • For many VINs at once use /carsxe:recalls-batch.
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.

  1. today Changed · +5 lines ae818c6c88e6
  2. 11d ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b45e0be3d19e

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recalls 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 257 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.