payment-method-decider

payment-method-decider is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 128 tokens per session (2,460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision workflow for choosing how to pay for a car, including a cashier’s check, debit card, credit card, financing, or lease. It weighs rewards, dealer limits, interest rates, and the buyer’s price constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare card rewards with surcharges, respond to dealer card limits, compare dealer financing with credit-union offers, and assess cash or lease payment choices.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a payment method from changing the real purchase cost or undermining the buyer’s budget.

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 card rewards with surcharges, respond to dealer card limits, compare dealer financing with credit-union offers, and assess cash or lease payment choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daizedong/buy-me-a-car/payment-method-decider
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car --skill payment-method-decider
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 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,460 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 $0.00128 $0.02460
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01230
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00246

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4da3f97b6fb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payment-method-decider 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 10d 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/payment-method-decider/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Payment Method Decider

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 3B sub-skill split from orchestrator)

Narrow helper for picking the payment instrument at close. Use when buyer asks "should I pay by X" or when dealer pushes a specific payment channel. Payment method is load-bearing for OTD math and CANNOT be silently swapped.

When To Use

  • Buyer asks "should I use credit card vs cashier's check"
  • Card-rewards math (3% crypto-backed cashback, Amex, CSR, Citi DC) vs dealer surcharge
  • Dealer claims POS card limit, buyer wants to push back
  • Captive financing rebate vs credit union APR comparator
  • Binding-constraint check on monthly cap vs OTD ceiling
  • Lease cash / lease cap cost reduction routing

When NOT To Use

  • General OTD math without payment-method dimension - use otd-calculator
  • Lease structure end-to-end - use lease_playbook.md first
  • After purchase paperwork - use close-day-checklist

Critical Rule

Payment method is LOAD-BEARING. Do NOT recommend financing to a cash buyer, or cashier's check to a buyer who wants card rewards. The buyer's chosen channel constrains:

  • Dealer fees (some channels attach convenience fee)
  • Effective OTD
  • Negotiation leverage (cash often weaker than financing for back-end)
  • Reward capture timing

If buyer's stated channel doesn't match the deal math, FLAG explicitly in heads-up.

Decision Matrix (Base Costs)

Method Cost Clearing Dealer Pref Notes
Cashier's check $0-15 1-3 days High Buyer-side mint at credit union
Personal check $0 5-10 days Low Often rejected for >$5k
Debit card $0 Instant Medium Daily limit usually $5-10k; call bank to lift
Credit card 2-3% surcharge >$5k Instant Low-Medium See card math below
ACH (bank wire push) $0-25 1-3 days Medium Buyer-friendly
Wire transfer $25-50 Same day High Best for time-critical close
Cash $0 Instant Lowest IRS Form 8300 over $10k

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 10d ago First seen · 175 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 4da3f97b6fb0

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payment-method-decider is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,460 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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