used-car-decoder

used-car-decoder is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking a used-car advertisement before travelling to see the vehicle. It explains vague seller wording and gives checks, questions, inspection steps, and reasons to walk away.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify accident history, ownership, finance, mileage, and recalls, then prepare for the viewing and test drive. It helps rank findings by how costly they could be to miss.
Why use it?
Sellers may describe problems indirectly, and a wasted trip or missed fault can cost money. The guide helps a non-mechanic check the car and know when to pay for a professional inspection.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to verify accident history, ownership, finance, mileage, and recalls, then prepare for the viewing and test drive. It helps rank findings by how costly they could be to miss.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/used-car-decoder
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,345 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 129 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,605 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 $0.00129 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00161

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3475af6fdea4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

used-car-decoder 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 10d 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.

exports/cursor/other/used-car-decoder/used-car-decoder.mdc · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Used Car Decoder Skill

A used-car listing is a document written by someone who knows the car's problems, for someone who doesn't. The dialect is learnable: "selling for a friend" (distance from liability), "drives well for its age" (adjusted expectations), "minor cosmetic damage" (photographed from the good side), "no test drives without deposit" (walk away now). This skill decodes the ad the way [[lease-decoder]] reads a lease — severity-ranked, money math attached — then arms the viewing: the checks a non-mechanic can actually do, the questions that surface evasion, and the honest boundary: which findings mean pay a professional for an inspection and which mean leave.

What This Skill Produces

  • A listing decode: phrase-by-phrase, 🔴🟡🟢, with what each hedge typically means and the question that tests it
  • The before-you-travel checks: history/title verification items (accident/write-off status, finance owing, mileage consistency, recalls) — each flagged as country-specific-verify-locally with what to search, since registries differ everywhere
  • A viewing & test-drive checklist ordered by cost-of-miss: the cold-start, the panel-gap walk, fluids, tires including the spare-match, electronics sweep, the specific listen-fors on the drive
  • Seller questions that make evasion visible ("why selling?", "what would you fix next?", "can I take it for a pre-purchase inspection?" — the last one is the real test: honest sellers say yes)
  • The money frame: comps from sold prices, what each found flaw is worth in negotiation, and the walk-away list where no price is right

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The listing text and photos described, plus price and the car (make/model/year/mileage)
  • The buyer: first car or fifteenth, mechanical comfort level, who else might inspect with them
  • Budget truth: the price ceiling including the first-year surprises buffer (insurance, immediate maintenance)
  • Country — for the verify-local flags on history checks and paperwork (this skill never asserts registry procedures)

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 137 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 3475af6fdea4

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used-car-decoder is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,345 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,605 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.