diagnose-cooling-system-failure

diagnose-cooling-system-failure is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for finding the cause of vehicle overheating or coolant problems. It checks for leaks, blockages, thermostat or water-pump faults, and head-gasket damage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate overheating, coolant loss, heater problems, and unusual temperature readings.
Why use it?
It helps identify the real fault before adding coolant or continuing to drive, which could worsen engine damage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to investigate overheating, coolant loss, heater problems, and unusual temperature readings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/diagnose-cooling-system-failure
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill diagnose-cooling-system-failure
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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,362 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 $0.00049 $0.01362
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3ddb548a0666, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose-cooling-system-failure 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/automotive/troubleshooting/skills/diagnose-cooling-system-failure/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnose Cooling System Failure

Systematically pressure-test and inspect the cooling system to identify leaks, blockages, thermostat failure, or head gasket compromise before the engine is driven and damaged further.

Why This Is Best Practice

Why best: Pressure-testing before diagnosis isolates the true root cause (leak, thermostat, water pump, head gasket) instead of guessing — guessing on cooling failures risks catastrophic engine damage. Adopted by: ASE A1 Engine Repair certification dedicates a major section to cooling system diagnosis. Gates Corporation and Prestone publish industry-standard cooling system diagnostic guides used by shop technicians. All OEM service manuals require a pressure test before any coolant-related diagnosis or repair. Impact: Overheating is the most damaging condition a car engine can experience — one overheating event can warp cylinder heads ($1,000–$3,000), crack a head gasket ($1,500–$4,000), or seize bearings (total engine replacement: $3,000–$8,000). Many cooling system failures present identically in symptoms but have different root causes: a leaking hose, a stuck thermostat, a failed water pump, and a blown head gasket all cause overheating. Driving with any of these undiagnosed causes escalating damage.

Steps

1. Safety first — never open a hot radiator

A hot cooling system is pressurized to 15+ PSI. Opening the radiator cap or overflow reservoir on a hot engine ejects scalding coolant.

Rule: never open coolant system when engine is hot. Wait 30–60 minutes after shutdown, or wrap the cap in a thick cloth and open slowly, releasing pressure gradually before removing.

2. Observe the symptoms before touching anything

Symptom Initial suspects
Overheating (temp gauge high) Thermostat stuck closed, low coolant, radiator blocked, water pump failure
Temperature gauge never reaches normal Thermostat stuck open
Coolant disappearing without visible leak Head gasket (internal leak), leaking heater core
White smoke from exhaust Head gasket failure (coolant burning in combustion chamber)
Heater blowing cold (engine hot) Low coolant level, thermostat stuck open, clogged heater core
Bubbling in coolant reservoir when engine running Head gasket (combustion gases entering cooling system)
Milky oil on dipstick Head gasket (coolant mixing with oil — critical; do not drive)

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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 · 107 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 3ddb548a0666

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diagnose-cooling-system-failure is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,362 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.