international-vin

international-vin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from carsxe/carsxe-mcp-server. It costs 47 tokens per session (180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for reading a 17-character international vehicle identification number, or VIN. It returns vehicle details such as the manufacturer, specifications, or emissions information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decode European, Asian, or other non-US VINs and retrieve international vehicle information.
Why use it?
It helps when a vehicle comes from outside the United States and US-specific lookup tools may not provide the right data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to decode European, Asian, or other non-US VINs and retrieve international vehicle information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carsxe/carsxe-mcp-server/international-vin
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add carsxe/carsxe-mcp-server --skill international-vin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carsxe/carsxe-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 180 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 $0.00047 $0.00180
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00018

Measured 9d ago against content hash b8fa0ba96abb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, 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 9d 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.

skills/international-vin/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

International VIN

Use the CarsXE MCP tool decode_international_vin. Auth is client-managed (API key or OAuth); do not embed secrets in plugin config.

Tool

  • Name: decode_international_vin
  • Required: vin — 17-character Vehicle Identification Number

When to use

  • European, Asian, or other non-US VIN decode
  • Manufacturer, specs, or emissions details for an international VIN

Notes

  • VIN must be exactly 17 characters.
  • Prefer this over get_vehicle_specs when the user identifies the VIN as international or non-US.
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. 9d ago First seen · 24 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A b8fa0ba96abb

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international-vin is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsxe/carsxe-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 180 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 2026-09-04.

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