carfax-pdf-review SKILL.md skillA

carfax-pdf-review from daizedong/buy-me-a-car is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add daizedong/buy-me-a-car/carfax-pdf-review@git:20260922.09bd4b1

Pins git:20260922.09bd4b1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
daizedong/buy-me-a-car
Path
skills/carfax-pdf-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260922.09bd4b1, committed Sep 22, 2026
First version recorded
May 19, 2026
Size
7,735 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
MIT

Use to analyze a dealer-attached PDF, CARFAX vehicle history report, service records, or OTD proposal, and extract accident detail, service gaps, F&I add-on hidden costs. Triggers include "review this CARFAX", "analyze service records", "what's in this proposal PDF", "did dealer hide add-ons", "看下 CARFAX", "审 PDF", "F&I add-on detection", and Spanish phrases "revisar este CARFAX", "analizar el historial del vehiculo en este PDF".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Carfax & PDF Review

> **Caveat**: this skill is one author's playbook + 5-scenario stress test. Verify state fees / CPO terms / EV credits / dealer practices against current sources before quoting numbers to a dealer or making financial decisions. Not tax, legal, or financial advice.
> **last_verified**: 2026-05-18 (Phase 2C sub-skill split from orchestrator)

Structured extraction from three common dealer-attached PDFs: CARFAX vehicle history, dealership service records, and OTD/financing proposals. Output is a typed red-flag report the buyer can act on.

## When To Use

- Dealer email attaches a CARFAX PDF and buyer wants accident/owner/title verification
- Dealer attaches service records PDF and buyer wants completeness check
- Dealer attaches OTD proposal / financing worksheet and buyer wants F&I add-ons surfaced
- Buyer wants to verify dealer's verbal claims against the written PDF

## When NOT To Use

- No PDF attached - skill cannot proceed; tell user to request the file from dealer
- PDF is text-extracted poorly (scanned image with no OCR) - flag to user, do not invent content
- Generic listing screenshot, not a PDF - hand off to inventory research in `../orchestrator`
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add daizedong/buy-me-a-car/carfax-pdf-review@sha256:d6489253187a9f8a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.09bd4b1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 19, 2026 and Sep 22, 2026, about one every 32 days.

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git:20260519.fc7df322026-05-19 fc7df32 7,481 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7735 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

daizedong/buy-me-a-car · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x6mifran2pyhl2q7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=daizedong/buy-me-a-car/carfax-pdf-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d6489253187a9f8a5aac067f849c95ec49266bc0464627ba22ae892bd6fe44aa

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