state-fee-lookup

state-fee-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from DaizeDong/buy-me-a-car. It costs 103 tokens per session (3,404 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.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Scope: narrow per-state fee retrieval. For OTD math see `../otd-calculator/SKILL.md`. For full negotiation/closing flow see `../orchestrator/SKILL.md`..

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

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/state-fee-lookup

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 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,404 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 $0.00103 $0.03404
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01702
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00340

Measured 12d ago against content hash d92f28a53837, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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/state-fee-lookup/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

State Fee Lookup

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 Scope: narrow per-state fee retrieval. For OTD math see ../otd-calculator/SKILL.md. For full negotiation/closing flow see ../orchestrator/SKILL.md.

Lookup pattern

Given a state code + buyer ZIP, return the 6-field summary:

State    : XX
RateBase : N.NNN% (state-level)
RateLocal: N.NN%  (county/city stack at ZIP, 0 if state has no local stacking)
DocCap   : $NNN or "no cap" (statutory legal max)
Title    : $NN
Reg(1yr) : $NN  (sedan/SUV; weight-based variants noted)
TradeCr  : YES / NO / partial

All-state summary

State Base rate Local typ Doc cap Title Reg Trade credit
AL 2% 2-4% none $20 $30 Yes
AK 0% 0-7.5% none $15 $100 N/A
AZ 5.6% 1-5% none $4 $50 Yes
AR 6.5% 1-5% none $10 $25 Yes
CA 7.25% 1-2% $85 $25 $250 NO
CO 2.9% 1-5% none $7 $90 Yes
CT 6.35% (7.75% >$50k) 0% none $25 $80 Yes
DE 0% (4.25% doc fee) 0% n/a structure $35 $50 N/A
DC 6-9% excise weight 0% none $26 $70 Yes
FL 6% 0.5-2% on first $5k none $77 $225 Yes
GA 6.6% TAVT one-time n/a none $18 $20 Yes (TAVT)
HI 4% GET 0-0.5% none $5 $45 Yes
ID 6% 0-3% none $14 $70 Yes
IL 6.25% 0-4.75% $347 $155 $151 Yes
IN 7% 0% $251.05 $15 $40 Yes
IA 6% 0-1% none $25 $100 Yes
KS 6.5% 0-4% none $10 $40 Yes
KY 6% 0% none $9 $65 NO
LA 4.45% 1-5% $436 $69 $50 Yes
ME 5.5% 0% none $33 $35 Yes
MD 6% 0% $800 (eff. July 1 2024) $499-799 $135 Yes
MA 6.25% 0% none $75 $60 Yes
MI 6% 0% $230 $15 $100 Yes (capped $9k 2025)
MN 6.5% 0-1.5% $350 $11 $100 Yes
MS 7% (5% trucks) 0% none $9 $25 Yes
MO 4.225% 0-5.5% $604.47 $11 $50 Yes
MT 0% 0% none $10 $90 N/A
NE 5.5% 0-2% none $10 $30 Yes
NV 6.85% 0-1.5% none $29 $33 Yes
NH 0% 0% $27 $25 $90 N/A
NJ 6.625% 0% $799 $85 $70 Yes
NM 4% excise 0% none $5 $35 Yes
NY 4% 4-4.875% $175 $50 $100 Yes
NC 3% HUT 0% $129 $52 $36 Yes (HUT)
ND 5% 0-3% none $5 $90 Yes
OH 5.75% 0.25-2.25% $250 $15 $31 Yes
OK 4.5% (excise 3.25%) 0-7% none $11 $96 Partial
OR 0% 0% $250 $122 $100 N/A
PA 6% (8% Philly, 7% Allegheny) varies by ZIP none $58 $39 Yes
RI 7% 0% $250 $52 $30 Yes
SC 5% IMF cap $500 0% none $15 $40 Yes
SD 4.5% excise 0-2% none $10 $75 Yes
TN 7% 1.5-2.75% none $11 $24 Yes
TX 6.25% 0% $225 $33 $50 (+$200 EV) Yes
UT 4.85% 1-3% none $6 $44 Yes
VT 6% 0% none $35 $70 Yes
VA 4.15% min $75 0-1% $599 $15 $41 NO
WA 6.5% +MVET 0.5-3.5% $200 $15 $80 Yes
WV 6% privilege 0% $575 $15 $30 Yes
WI 5% 0-0.5% none $164 $75 Yes
WY 4% 0-2% none $15 $30 Yes

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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 · 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 (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 3,404 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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