vehicle-recalls

vehicle-recalls is a skill for Claude Code from carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin. It costs 46 tokens per session (260 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that checks a vehicle's VIN, its unique identification code, for open safety recalls through the CarsXE API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing open recalls with campaign numbers, affected parts, defect descriptions, and repair status, including safety-critical issues.
Why use it?
It shows whether the vehicle may need a manufacturer repair for a known safety defect.

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 Listing open recalls with campaign numbers, affected parts, defect descriptions, and repair status, including safety-critical issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin/vehicle-recalls
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin --skill vehicle-recalls
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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 260 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 $0.00046 $0.00260
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash ec68bf9ffce5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vehicle-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 yesterday.

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/vehicle-recalls/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

When the user asks about recalls or safety issues:

  • If they have a VIN, call the CarsXE Recalls API:
    GET https://api.carsxe.com/v1/recalls?key={CARSXE_API_KEY}&vin={VIN}&source=claude_plugin
    
  • If they have year/make/model but no VIN, use the Recalls by YMM API instead (/v1/recalls-ymm).
  • If they have many VINs (fleet, inventory, CSV), use the Recalls Batch API (/v1/recalls-batch/*).
  1. Present recall details:
    • Total number of open recalls
    • For each recall: campaign number, component, defect description, remedy status
  2. If no recalls exist, clearly confirm the vehicle has no open recalls.
  3. Emphasize any safety-critical recalls.
  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. yesterday Changed · +3 lines ec68bf9ffce5
  2. 12d ago First seen · 18 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 277d95111dd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vehicle-recalls is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 260 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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