lease-vs-cash-analyzer

lease-vs-cash-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A calculator and research workflow for comparing leasing with paying cash for a car. It covers lease terms such as the vehicle’s financed amount, interest factor, end-of-lease value, and related fees.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare lease and cash costs, calculate lease payments, check the lender’s early-buyout rules, and evaluate a lease for a specific ownership period.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the total cost of each option and check whether a dealer’s monthly lease payment matches the quoted terms.

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 compare lease and cash costs, calculate lease payments, check the lender’s early-buyout rules, and evaluate a lease for a specific ownership period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daizedong/buy-me-a-car/lease-vs-cash-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car --skill lease-vs-cash-analyzer
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 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,836 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 $0.00098 $0.02836
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00284

Measured 12d ago against content hash cfda324232da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lease-vs-cash-analyzer 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/lease-vs-cash-analyzer/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lease vs Cash Analyzer

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: 2026-05-18 (Phase 3C sub-skill split from orchestrator)

Narrow helper: lease structure math, lease-vs-cash break-even, captive lender policy lookup. Defers the full theory + worked tables to ../orchestrator/references/lease_playbook.md.

When To Use

  • Buyer asks "should I lease or buy?" with a concrete vehicle + horizon
  • Need to verify a dealer-quoted lease monthly is honest (MF buy-rate check)
  • Need lease-end disposition / early-buyout policy for one OEM captive

NOTE, federal §45W lease pass-through is TERMINATED (acquired after 2025-09-30, OBBBA). The "EV buyer fails §30D AGI cap, so route to §45W lease pass-through" play is dead for any 2026 lease. Lessor captives can no longer capture the federal $7,500 commercial credit, so it is not available as cap cost reduction. Any "EV lease credit" a dealer advertises in 2026 is ordinary OEM lease cash / marketing money, NOT a federal credit. Do not present it as §45W pass-through or count it as a federal incentive. See the CRITICAL banner in ev-buyer-helper. §45W content below is HISTORICAL only.

When NOT To Use

  • General OTD cash math - delegate to otd-calculator
  • EV federal credit status / state rebate stacking - delegate to ev-buyer-helper first (federal §30D/§25E/§45W all terminated 2025-09-30; state rebates are the only live layer)
  • Pure CPO eligibility - delegate to cpo-eligibility

Core Lease Formula

Monthly = ((CapCost - Residual) / Term) + (CapCost + Residual) * MF + Tax

Variables:

  • CapCost = MSRP - CapCostReduction - LeaseCash - ManufacturerRebate + AcquisitionFee + DealerAddOns
  • Residual = MSRP * Residual% (typical 50-65% at 36 mo)
  • MF = APR / 2400 (money factor; dealer can mark up buy-rate)
  • Term = 24 / 36 / 39 mo most common

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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 · 205 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A cfda324232da

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lease-vs-cash-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,836 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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