rate-shopping

rate-shopping is a skill for Claude Code from goshippo/ai. It costs 26 tokens per session (791 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for comparing shipping prices and delivery times from multiple carriers through Shippo, a shipping API service. It explains how to create a shipment, read available rates, and choose an option.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate addresses, compare cheapest or fastest shipping options, present carrier prices and estimated delivery times, and pass a selected rate into label purchasing.
Why use it?
It helps you compare carrier services consistently and avoid using outdated prices. Shippo rates expire after seven days, so old rates must be requested again before purchase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shippo plugin — 9 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate addresses, compare cheapest or fastest shipping options, present carrier prices and estimated delivery times, and pass a selected rate into label purchasing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goshippo/ai/rate-shopping
View source ↗ goshippo/ai
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 goshippo/ai --skill rate-shopping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/goshippo/ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shippo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 791 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 $0.00026 $0.00791
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84330386d052, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-shopping 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 9d 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.

providers/claude/plugin/skills/rate-shopping/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rate Shopping and Comparison

Get Rates for a Shipment

  1. Collect: origin address, destination address, parcel (length, width, height, distance_unit, weight, mass_unit). All dimension and weight values must be strings (e.g., "10" not 10).
  2. Optionally validate both addresses with ValidateAddress (see Address Validation).
  3. Call CreateShipment with address_from, address_to (as inline address objects using v1 field names -- street1, city, state, zip, country -- not object IDs), and parcels.
  4. The response rates array contains available options. Present a table: carrier, service level, price, estimated days.
  5. Note: the same carrier may return duplicate rates from multiple carrier accounts. Present the best rate per carrier/service combination.
  6. Each rate carries an object_id. To buy a label, pass the chosen rate's object_id to the purchase flow (see Label Purchase); you do not re-send the address or parcel.

Rate Expiration

Rates expire after 7 days. If a user tries to purchase a rate that was retrieved more than 7 days ago, create a new shipment to get fresh rates.


Filter by Speed

Map user requests: "overnight" = estimated_days 1, "2-day" = estimated_days <= 2, "within N days" = estimated_days <= N. Filter the rates array accordingly. If nothing matches, show the fastest available option.


International Rates

Some carriers may return international rates without a customs declaration, but others will not. If no rates are returned, try attaching a customs declaration to the shipment. Some carriers also require a phone number on the destination address for international rate retrieval. Inform the user that customs will be required at label purchase time regardless. See shippo/references/customs-guide.md for customs details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 84330386d052

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rate-shopping is a skill published in the GitHub repository goshippo/ai (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 791 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.