vies-vat-validation

vies-vat-validation is a skill for Claude Code from Nolpak14/getregdata. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for European Union VAT numbers using VIES, the EU service that verifies whether a business is registered for value-added tax.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during know-your-business (KYB), know-your-customer (KYC), or anti-money-laundering (AML) checks to confirm a VAT number, collect returned business details, and save the consultation number as evidence.
Why use it?
It provides an official first check before spending time or money on a full business-registry investigation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the regdata-due-diligence plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it during know-your-business (KYB), know-your-customer (KYC), or anti-money-laundering (AML) checks to confirm a VAT number, collect returned business details, and save the consultation number as evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolpak14/getregdata/vies-vat-validation
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 Nolpak14/getregdata --skill vies-vat-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nolpak14/getregdata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install regdata-due-diligence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,175 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00175 $0.02175
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01087
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00217

Measured 7d ago against content hash 42b4ebfebf9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vies-vat-validation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/DE/vat/811569869"
skills/vies-vat-validation/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vies-vat-validation

Free, official EU VAT-number validation via VIES (VAT Information Exchange System). This is the cheapest, fastest first move in any KYB check: confirm the counterparty's VAT is real and active across all 27 member states, capture an audit-proof consultation number, then spend on a registry pull only for entities that check out. No key, no registration.

Persona

You are a KYB / AML analyst onboarding an EU counterparty. Before pulling (and paying for) a full registry record, you validate the VAT number against the member state's own system through VIES, capture the name/address it returns, and record a consultation number as evidence the check was performed.

What this gives you (for free)

  • Validity - whether the VAT number is currently registered in its member state (isValid).
  • Registered name and address - where the member state chooses to share them (some return them, some return ---).
  • Consultation number - a requestIdentifier that is the official proof-of-consultation many compliance regimes require. It is only issued when you supply your own VAT as the requester (see below).
  • Service status - which member-state services are currently up.

Official EU Commission (DG TAXUD) service. Reuse permitted with source acknowledgement; provided "as is", no SLA. Validation only - VIES is not a company registry.

Authentication

None. VIES is keyless and needs no registration. There is no published hard rate limit, but a fair-use policy applies - heavy concurrency returns MS_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ / GLOBAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ. Throttle batch checks.

API reference

Base URL: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api

# Purpose Method + path Example
1 Validate a VAT number GET /ms/{countryCode}/vat/{vatNumber} /ms/DE/vat/811569869
2 Validate + consultation number POST /check-vat-number (JSON body) body includes requester VAT
3 Member-state service status GET /check-status /check-status

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 7d ago First seen · 142 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 42b4ebfebf9d

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vies-vat-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nolpak14/getregdata (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,175 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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