state-fee-lookup

state-fee-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup guide for US vehicle taxes and DMV-related fees by state and buyer ZIP code. It covers sales tax, dealer document-fee limits, title and registration fees, and trade-in tax-credit eligibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions such as a state's sales-tax rate, document-fee cap, title fee, registration fee, or trade-in credit rules.
Why use it?
It avoids searching through separate state DMV and tax websites when estimating the extra costs of buying a car. Its figures should still be checked against current official sources before making a financial decision.

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 answer questions such as a state's sales-tax rate, document-fee cap, title fee, registration fee, or trade-in credit rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daizedong/buy-me-a-car/state-fee-lookup
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car --skill state-fee-lookup
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 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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 $0.00090 $0.02004
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00802
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00200

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 229df1d86c2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

state-fee-lookup 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 1mo 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/state-fee-lookup/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

State Fee Lookup

The public dataset covers 50 states and DC as a research index. Coverage does not mean all fields are verified or every tax mechanism is implemented. Do not answer from a legacy numeric value whose field_provenance.status is unverified.

Lookup procedure

  1. Resolve the vehicle's registration state and applicable transaction jurisdiction. Identify purchase versus lease, dealer versus private seller, vehicle/powertrain class, date, trade eligibility, exemptions and rebates.
  2. Read the exact field in data/state_fees.json together with its provenance. For a reviewed field, verify that the saved value matches the cited source value, the source is official, the review date is not stale/future, and the transaction is within the recorded effective scope.
  3. If the field is unverified, follow the official agency/statute link and verify that field. Record the actual date of review, the applicable effective period if known, and the narrow transaction scope. Never copy an old record's verification date into a new review.
  4. For doc fees, distinguish a maximum from a disclosure rule, a finance-contract safe harbor, a filing fee or a typical dealer charge. Null plus unverified provenance means unknown. It does not mean unlimited.
  5. For registration, quote the actual class/weight/term/locality/plate/powertrain formula or obtain the transaction-specific fee. The calculator requires explicit title and registration values.
  6. Use the state calculator only when its profile supports the transaction and all required field evidence passes. Otherwise request an itemized dealer/DMV calculation.

check_freshness.py is a gate by default. --report-only allows a report containing unverified fields; malformed and empty data still fail. --calculator checks the enabled profiles' required tax fields. --state XX narrows the report. A passing profile check does not verify all other fields in that state.

Reviewed field table

This table is generated from the JSON by render_state_data.py --write-references. --check detects drift across all three tax reference surfaces. Reviewed dates and applicability live with each field in JSON. Unverified legacy rates/fees are deliberately not printed here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 1mo ago Changed · -95 lines · -13 tokens per session 229df1d86c2a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 189 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A d92f28a53837

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state-fee-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car (11 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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