review-used-car-listing

review-used-car-listing is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,295 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for examining an online or dealership listing for a used car.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the VIN, look for red flags, assess the price, and decide whether to arrange an inspection.
Why use it?
It helps you notice missing or suspicious information, compare the asking price, and avoid wasting time on unsuitable vehicles before visiting.

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 check the VIN, look for red flags, assess the price, and decide whether to arrange an inspection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/review-used-car-listing
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 jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill review-used-car-listing
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 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,295 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 $0.00030 $0.01295
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00129

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0c087fd2365e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-used-car-listing 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/buying/skills/review-used-car-listing/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.

Review Used Car Listing

Systematically evaluate a used car listing to spot red flags, verify pricing, and determine whether a vehicle merits an in-person inspection.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Consumer Reports used-car methodology, CarFax buyer guidance, AAA car-buying program, NHTSA consumer protection recommendations
Impact: 1 in 3 online used-car listings contains misleading information (FTC used-car rule enforcement data); buyers who screen listings before visiting save 3–5 hours per vehicle; systematic listing review eliminates 60–70% of unsuitable vehicles before travel; average overpayment without market comparison is $1,200–$3,500 (Edmunds pricing data)
Why best: Online listings have zero cost to post and little consequence for exaggeration; systematic screening using objective data sources (pricing databases, VIN reports, recall databases) creates an objective filter before emotional engagement with the vehicle

Sources: NHTSA VIN lookup and recall database; CarFax/AutoCheck "How to Read a Report" guide; Consumer Reports "Used Car Reliability Ratings"; FTC Used Car Rule

Steps

  1. Verify the VIN is present and valid — A 17-character VIN should be listed; run it at NHTSA's vinsearch.nhtsa.dot.gov to confirm year/make/model matches the ad. No VIN = do not contact — either fraud or seller hiding history.

  2. Check for open safety recalls — Enter the VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; open recalls must be disclosed under FTC rules; unfixed critical recalls (brake, steering, airbag) are a safety reason to skip the vehicle unless the seller commits to fixing before sale.

  3. Assess the price against market data — Pull the vehicle's price range from three sources: Edmunds Instant Market Value (IMV), KBB Private Party Value, and local comparable listings on CarGurus or AutoTrader. A price 10%+ below market requires explanation; a price 15%+ above market requires exceptional justification.

  4. Analyze the listing photos — Count photos: fewer than 12 is a red flag; professional listings show 20–40. Must-have photos: all four corners of exterior, engine bay, all four tires/wheels, dashboard with odometer, front and rear seats, cargo area, undercarriage if available. Missing interior or undercarriage photos suggest hiding damage.

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. 12d ago First seen · 60 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 0c087fd2365e

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review-used-car-listing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,295 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.