insurance-shopper

insurance-shopper is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 140 tokens per session (3,564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for arranging or comparing car insurance before buying a vehicle. It covers minimum requirements, full-coverage choices, new-driver pricing, and preparing an insurance identification card.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request quotes, compare insurers, decide between minimum and full coverage, handle first-time-driver or cross-state situations, and prepare proof of insurance before pickup.
Why use it?
It helps avoid arriving at the dealership without required coverage or discovering too late that insurance costs change the buying budget.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Scope: narrow pre-close insurance shopping + bind workflow. For full close-day flow see `../close-day-checklist/SKILL.md`. For per-state fee specifics see `../s.

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

Good fit Use it to request quotes, compare insurers, decide between minimum and full coverage, handle first-time-driver or cross-state situations, and prepare proof of insurance before pickup.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daizedong/buy-me-a-car/insurance-shopper

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 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,564 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 $0.00140 $0.03564
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01782
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00356

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5c5ff6c37064, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insurance-shopper 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/insurance-shopper/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Insurance Shopper

Caveat: this skill is one author's playbook + 5-scenario stress test. Verify state minimums / carrier rates / discount stacking against current sources before binding a policy. Not insurance, tax, legal, or financial advice. last_verified: 2026-05-19 Scope: narrow pre-close insurance shopping + bind workflow. For full close-day flow see ../close-day-checklist/SKILL.md. For per-state fee specifics see ../state-fee-lookup/SKILL.md.

Narrow helper for setting up auto insurance BEFORE the F&I appointment, with new-driver and cash-buyer edge cases handled. Use when buyer says "I need insurance for the new car" or when close day is < 7 days out and no policy exists yet.

When To Use

  • Buyer asks "how do I set up insurance for the new car"
  • First-time driver (license < 12 months) needs a quote
  • Cash buyer asking "do I even need full coverage"
  • Cross-state move (NJ resident buying in PA, etc.) and unclear which state's policy
  • Close-day countdown started, no ID card secured yet
  • Triggers: "set up insurance", "car insurance quote", "new driver insurance", "上保", "保险报价", "ID card before pickup", "lender requires insurance"

When NOT To Use

  • Policy review for existing policyholder with no new vehicle - use a licensed agent
  • Claims handling after an accident - use the carrier's claims line
  • Commercial / fleet / rideshare insurance - out of scope
  • Health / life / homeowners / umbrella - out of scope
  • General OTD math - use ../otd-calculator/SKILL.md

The Pre-Close Gate

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| BLOCKER: Dealer will NOT release the vehicle without   |
| an active insurance ID card showing the buyer + VIN.   |
| Bind insurance BEFORE the F&I appointment, NOT during. |
| Walking in without coverage = dealer-controlled scramble|
| and worst-case overnight delay.                        |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

Target state: ID card PDF on phone, 1 paper copy in folder, before walking into F&I.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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 · 234 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 5c5ff6c37064

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insurance-shopper is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 3,564 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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