ev-buyer-helper

ev-buyer-helper is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 176 tokens per session (3,517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for people buying an electric vehicle, including battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars. It covers current incentives, charging, connector adapters, and the condition of a used EV’s battery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check state rebates, verify federal-credit status, understand NACS adapters and home charging, and assess battery State of Health when considering a used EV.
Why use it?
It brings together purchase checks that are specific to electric vehicles and highlights that federal clean-vehicle credits ended for vehicles acquired after September 30, 2025.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the buy-me-a-car plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check state rebates, verify federal-credit status, understand NACS adapters and home charging, and assess battery State of Health when considering a used EV.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daizedong/buy-me-a-car/ev-buyer-helper
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car --skill ev-buyer-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install buy-me-a-car, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,517 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 $0.00176 $0.03517
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01758
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00703
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00352

Measured 12d ago against content hash 14701a9924c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ev-buyer-helper 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.

skills/ev-buyer-helper/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EV Buyer Helper

Caveat: this skill is one author's playbook + 5-scenario stress test. Verify state fees / CPO terms / EV credits / dealer practices against current sources before quoting numbers to a dealer or making financial decisions. Not tax, legal, or financial advice. last_verified: 2026-06-22 (federal credit termination re-verified against IRS)

⚠️ CRITICAL, FEDERAL EV CREDITS HAVE ENDED (as of 2026-06)

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA / Public Law 119-21, signed 2025-07-04) terminated all three federal clean-vehicle credits for any vehicle acquired after 2025-09-30:

  • §30D New Clean Vehicle Credit ($7,500), TERMINATED.
  • §25E Previously-Owned (Used) Clean Vehicle Credit ($4,000), TERMINATED.
  • §45W Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit ($7,500, the lease pass-through), TERMINATED.

A vehicle acquired on or before 2025-09-30 (written binding contract + a payment, incl. a nominal deposit or trade-in, by that date) can still claim the credit even if placed in service later, but that window is closed for any 2026 purchase.

For any buyer purchasing now (2026): there is NO federal $7,500 / $4,000 / §45W EV credit. Do NOT quote these to a buyer or use them in OTD / net-price math. Only state/local rebates (where still funded) and manufacturer incentives remain.

The §30D / §25E / §45W mechanics below are retained as historical reference (eligibility for pre-2025-10-01 acquisitions, and in case Congress reinstates a credit). They do not apply to current purchases.

Sources: IRS FAQ Fact Sheet 2025-05 (modification of §§25C/25D/25E/30C/30D/45L/45W/179D under OBBB); IRS, accelerated termination of energy provisions under OBBB.

Narrow helper for EV-only buying scenarios: federal/state incentives, charging hardware transition, used-EV battery diligence. Use when buyer has already chosen an EV powertrain and needs the EV-specific layer on top of the standard OTD/negotiation flow.

Note (2026): the federal incentive layer is gone (see banner above); this skill's present-day value is the state rebate matrix, charging/SoH/range diligence, and used-EV battery checks. Treat all §30D / §25E / §45W content as historical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

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 · 246 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 14701a9924c6

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ev-buyer-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 3,517 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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