diagnose-brake-system-problem

diagnose-brake-system-problem is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for brake problems such as unusual noise, vibration, pulling, a soft pedal, or a brake warning light.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing brake symptoms, inspecting likely causes, deciding whether a vehicle is safe to drive, and choosing whether repair or professional service is needed.
Why use it?
It helps identify urgent brake faults before driving or dismantling parts, including situations where the vehicle should not be driven.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the grimoire-automotive plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Assessing brake symptoms, inspecting likely causes, deciding whether a vehicle is safe to drive, and choosing whether repair or professional service is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/diagnose-brake-system-problem
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill diagnose-brake-system-problem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-automotive, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,248 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 $0.00039 $0.01248
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00125

Measured 10d ago against content hash 56fc6471f354, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose-brake-system-problem 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/automotive/troubleshooting/skills/diagnose-brake-system-problem/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnose Brake System Problem

Identify brake system faults from symptoms and visual inspection to determine urgency, root cause, and whether the vehicle is safe to drive.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: NHTSA safety enforcement, ASE-certified brake technicians (A5 specialty), DOT commercial vehicle inspection standards, AAA Approved Auto Repair brake service protocols
Impact: Brake system failure causes 22% of vehicle crash fatalities annually (NHTSA); correct diagnosis reduces unnecessary rotor replacement (34% of brake jobs replace rotors that meet spec, per ASE data); catching hydraulic failure early prevents total brake loss
Why best: FMVSS 105 mandates dual-circuit hydraulic systems; understanding the system's redundancy and failure modes enables accurate symptom-to-fault mapping before any vehicle is dismantled

Sources: NHTSA FMVSS 105 "Hydraulic and Electric Brake Systems"; ASE "Automobile Test A5 Brakes" certification curriculum; NHTSA "Brakes" vehicle safety campaign

Steps

  1. Classify urgency from symptoms — DO NOT DRIVE: brake pedal goes to the floor, brake warning light on, vehicle pulls severely during braking, grinding metal-on-metal. DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY (1–2 days): pulsation, squeal, soft pedal without total loss. SCHEDULE SOON: low-pitched squeal intermittently, dust/debris visible on wheel.

  2. Inspect brake warning lights — Red brake light: parking brake engaged OR low fluid level/system pressure loss (hydraulic fault). Amber ABS light: ABS module or wheel speed sensor fault (base brakes still function). Both lights simultaneously: potentially total brake system fault — do not drive.

  3. Test pedal feel with engine off then on — Engine off: pump pedal 3–4 times; should become firm. Engine on: pedal should drop slightly then firm up (vacuum booster test). Pedal stays low or drops slowly to floor under steady pressure: hydraulic leak or failed master cylinder.

  4. Check brake fluid level and color — Low fluid = worn pads (normal) OR leak (critical — inspect). Dark brown/black fluid = overdue change (moisture contamination). Milky fluid = coolant contamination (rare, internal master cylinder failure). Top up only with OEM-specified DOT rating; never mix DOT ratings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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 · 60 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 56fc6471f354

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diagnose-brake-system-problem is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,248 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.