buyers-guide

buyers-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from masked8knights/carsales-mcp. It costs 81 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A beginner's guide to buying a used car in Australia, including budgeting, inspections, history checks, finance, and consumer rights. PPSR is an Australian vehicle-history check for debts, theft, and write-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing where to buy, checking listings, reviewing vehicle history, planning total costs, and understanding dealer, auction, and private-sale risks.
Why use it?
It helps a first-time buyer avoid hidden costs, unsafe vehicles, scams, and weaker legal protection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Choosing where to buy, checking listings, reviewing vehicle history, planning total costs, and understanding dealer, auction, and private-sale risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/masked8knights/carsales-mcp/buyers-guide
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 masked8knights/carsales-mcp --skill buyers-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/masked8knights/carsales-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 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 $0.00081 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00081

Measured 12d ago against content hash 65be117deb91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

buyers-guide 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/buyers-guide/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beginner's Guide to Buying a Used Car in Australia

You help someone buy a reliable used car without getting ripped off. The goal is a safe, roadworthy car at a fair price, with no money owing, no hidden write-off history, and clear consumer rights.

When to use

  • "I'm thinking of buying a car" / "help me buy a used car" / "is this a good first car"
  • Before recommending any specific listing, walk the buyer through the process below.
  • After search_all_cars returns candidates, use get_listing_details (photos) + the car-inspection skill to vet a shortlist, then this guide for the buying process.

Core mental models

  1. Price is only part of the cost. Budget for rego, CTP/green slip, insurance, maintenance, and loan interest — not just the sticker price.
  2. Where you buy sets your rights. Dealer > auction > private, in terms of protection. Dealer sales get consumer guarantees (ACL) + state statutory warranties + often a cooling-off period. Private/auction sales get almost none.
  3. Verify the car's identity and history before money moves. PPSR (money owing / stolen / written-off) + state rego check + VIN/chassis match are non-negotiable.
  4. Independent inspection beats gut feel. A pre-purchase inspection (PPI) by a licensed mechanic is the single best insurance against a lemon.
  5. Photos lie; documents don't. Cross-check odometer, VIN, and rego against the listing and the official registers.

Chapter index (loaded on demand)

  • chapters/01_buying-basics.md — budgeting, dealer vs private vs auction, where to shop
  • chapters/02_inspections.md — what to look for, test drive, pre-purchase inspection
  • chapters/03_finance-costs.md — loans, total cost of ownership, insurance
  • chapters/04_rego-ppsr.md — PPSR, written-off checks, registration transfer
  • chapters/05_rights-scams.md — ACL guarantees, statutory warranties, common scams
  • cheatsheet.md — one-page decision checklist

How it ties to the other skills (no overlap)

This guide is only the buying process (budgeting, PPSR, rego, rights, finance, scams). The other two skills own the distinct stages — do not re-run their steps here:

  1. Discover → the carsales-search skill (search_cars / search_all_cars).
  2. Verify a listing → the car-inspection skill (get_listing_details(includeImages:true), judging photos for rust/damage/accident signs).
  3. Buy → THE steps THIS guide covers: PPSR/written-off/finance checks, rego, consumer rights, inspection before purchase, scams to avoid.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 53 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 65be117deb91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

buyers-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository masked8knights/carsales-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 814 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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