international-vin

international-vin is a skill for Claude Code from carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin. It costs 43 tokens per session (188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that looks up international vehicle identification numbers, or VINs, using the CarsXE API. A VIN is the unique code assigned to a vehicle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a non-US vehicle's country of manufacture, make, model, year, engine, transmission, and body style.
Why use it?
It provides vehicle details for VINs from Europe, Asia, and other non-US markets through an endpoint intended for those vehicles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it to find a non-US vehicle's country of manufacture, make, model, year, engine, transmission, and body style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin/international-vin
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.

Any agent
npx skills add carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin --skill international-vin
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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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 188 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 $0.00043 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00019

Measured 12d ago against content hash b92aa1c0d3b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

international-vin 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 12d 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/skills/international-vin/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

When the user provides a VIN that appears to be from a non-US vehicle (European, Asian, etc.):

  1. Call the CarsXE International VIN Decoder API:
    GET https://api.carsxe.com/v1/international-vin-decoder?key={CARSXE_API_KEY}&vin={VIN}&source=claude_plugin
    
  2. Present the decoded data: country of manufacture, make, model, year, engine, transmission, body style.
  3. Note this endpoint is optimized for international VINs outside the US market.
  4. If the API key is missing, tell the user to set the CARSXE_API_KEY environment variable.
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. 12d ago First seen · 15 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b92aa1c0d3b1

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international-vin is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 188 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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