lien-theft

lien-theft is a skill for Claude Code from carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin. It costs 49 tokens per session (174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A vehicle history check that uses the vehicle identification number, or VIN, to look for active liens and theft records through the CarsXE service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether a vehicle has unpaid claims attached to it or has been reported stolen.
Why use it?
It helps reveal ownership or theft problems before buying a vehicle. It requires a CarsXE API key.

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 Checking whether a vehicle has unpaid claims attached to it or has been reported stolen.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin/lien-theft
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 lien-theft
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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 174 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 $0.00049 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00017

Measured 12d ago against content hash a1e2250f1789, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lien-theft 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/lien-theft/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

When the user asks about liens, theft status, or ownership encumbrances on a vehicle:

  1. Make an HTTP GET request:
    GET https://api.carsxe.com/v1/lien-theft?key={CARSXE_API_KEY}&vin={VIN}&source=claude_plugin
    
  2. Present the lien status and theft records clearly.
  3. Highlight any active liens or theft flags prominently — these are critical red flags for buyers.
  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 · 49 tokens per session scan A a1e2250f1789

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lien-theft is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 174 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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