vehicle-specs

vehicle-specs is a skill for Claude Code from carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin. It costs 48 tokens per session (214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that retrieves vehicle details from a vehicle identification number, or VIN, using the CarsXE API. A VIN is the unique identification code assigned to a vehicle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone provides a VIN and asks for the vehicle's basic details, engine, transmission, drivetrain, fuel economy, body information, or equipment.
Why use it?
It avoids manually looking up a vehicle's make, model, engine, equipment, and other specifications. It requires a CarsXE API key stored in the CARSXE_API_KEY environment variable.

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 when someone provides a VIN and asks for the vehicle's basic details, engine, transmission, drivetrain, fuel economy, body information, or equipment.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin --skill vehicle-specs
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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 214 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 $0.00048 $0.00214
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00107
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00021

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4371ee78ddc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vehicle-specs 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/vehicle-specs/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

When the user provides a VIN and asks about vehicle specs, details, or information:

  1. Call the CarsXE Specifications API:
    GET https://api.carsxe.com/specs?key={CARSXE_API_KEY}&vin={VIN}&source=claude_plugin
    
  2. Present the results in a clean, organized format covering:
    • Basic info: Make, Model, Year, Trim
    • Engine: type, cylinders, displacement, horsepower, torque
    • Transmission & drivetrain
    • Fuel type and economy (city/highway/combined)
    • Body style, doors, seats
    • Standard & optional equipment
  3. 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 · 20 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 4371ee78ddc8

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vehicle-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 214 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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