Agent skill

Motronic

by elithrar in elithrar/dotfiles

Diagnose Porsche Carrera 3.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Motronic

skills CLI
$ npx skills add elithrar/dotfiles --skill motronic -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install elithrar/dotfiles motronic --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elithrar/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/motronic .claude/skills/motronic && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
motronic
GitHub stars
202
Token cost
~753 tokens
SKILL.md length
368 words
Files
7 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Diagnose Porsche Carrera 3.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes.

  • 1984-1989 3.2 DME systems
  • SKILL.md covers Read the relevant reference, Diagnostic constraints and Response
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Including swaps into earlier cars

What it does

Motronic is an agent skill from elithrar/dotfiles. Diagnose Porsche Carrera 3.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes. Use for 1984-1989 3.2 DME systems, including swaps into earlier cars; not generic 911, CIS, or other ECU advice.

Its SKILL.md is about 750 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including reference files (for example `evals/evals.json`, `references/diagnostics.md` and `references/pelican-research.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Performance reviews. The repository describes itself as: dotfiles for my macOS & Linux environments ⌨️. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • 1984-1989 3.2 DME systems
  • Including swaps into earlier cars
  • Not generic 911
  • Other ECU advice

Example prompts

  • “/motronic”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e007b24. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Motronic loads about 753 tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 368 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~753
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~10k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from elithrar/dotfiles at commit e007b24, republished under its MIT licence (© elithrar). 368 words, ~753 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/motronic/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
motronic
description
Diagnose Porsche Carrera 3.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes. Use for 1984-1989 3.2 DME systems, including swaps into earlier cars; not generic 911, CIS, or other ECU advice.

Porsche 3.2 Motronic

Identify the actual engine, harness, DME, and chip family from available evidence; chassis year alone is insufficient on a conversion. Preserve measured facts and distinguish them from hypotheses. Ask only for the smallest missing detail that changes the next diagnostic branch or makes a specific instruction safe.

Read the relevant reference

TaskRead when needed
Fault isolation, no-start, hot-start, sensors, injector/spark, wiringDiagnostics
ROM identity, offsets, conversions, XDF alignmentROM decoding
AFR, timing, engine-build or calibration changesTuning
Pelican forum research or field-repair contextPelican research
Conflicting evidence, source selection, or a detailed decode reportSources and reporting

Read only references needed for the current question. Fetch current primary evidence when exact technical claims need verification; these notes do not replace the correct wiring diagram or a ROM-specific decode. Use forum accounts as hypotheses and cite them when they materially support the answer.

Diagnostic constraints

Do not invent pinouts, component specifications, map addresses, checksums, or safe timing/AFR targets. Before pin-level probing, establish the DME/harness version and verify the pin against its wiring source. State connector location, key or engine state, instrument mode, and what each result would establish.

Use measurements to isolate the fault instead of prescribing parts replacement or restarting a completed diagnostic checklist. Provide the next useful test and its possible branches; request the result before drawing a conclusion that depends on it. Investigate hardware faults before tuning around them.

Show full SKILL.md (133 more words)Show less

For ROM work, preserve the original binary and record its hash. Treat bundled offsets and formulas as specific to their documented image until alignment is proven. Do not claim a tune is safe from map math or engine specifications alone; relate risk to actual AFR, timing, fuel, temperature, and controlled-load evidence.

For physical EPROM reads/writes, use an available programmer-specific workflow or verified programmer documentation. Do not assume a minipro skill is installed. Decoding a binary does not authorize programming a chip.

Response

Lead with the supported conclusion or next check, then the decisive evidence and material uncertainty. Use a fuller report only when the user asks for one or the data requires it. Keep electrical and engine-risk cautions specific to the proposed action; do not attach a generic risk section to every answer.

© elithrar, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (references) in .agents/skills/motronic of elithrar/dotfiles.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/diagnostics.md
  • references/pelican-research.md
  • references/rom-decoding.md
  • references/sources-and-reporting.md
  • references/tuning.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e007b24

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Questions about Motronic

What does Motronic do?

Diagnose Porsche Carrera 3.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes. Motronic is an agent skill from elithrar/dotfiles.2 Bosch Motronic faults and interpret DME ROMs or calibration changes.

When should I use Motronic?

Motronic fits situations like: 1984-1989 3.2 DME systems; including swaps into earlier cars; not generic 911; other ECU advice.

How do I install Motronic in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add elithrar/dotfiles --skill motronic -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/motronic in elithrar/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/motronic in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Motronic in Codex?

Run `npx skills add elithrar/dotfiles --skill motronic -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/motronic in elithrar/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/motronic in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Motronic in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add elithrar/dotfiles --skill motronic -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/motronic, .gemini/skills/motronic, .github/skills/motronic and .opencode/skills/motronic in your project.

What does Motronic need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Motronic is instructions for the agent only.

Does Motronic access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Motronic safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Motronic use?

Motronic is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Motronic use?

About 753 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 9.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Motronic?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Motronic: Wp Performance Review (elvismdev/claude-wordpress-skills, 235 stars), Align Human (agentscope-ai/OpenJudge, 871 stars), Run Mv Hoi Reconstruction (nvidia-isaac/video_to_data, 861 stars) and Company Analysis (zhu1090093659/dsh-trading, 236 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Motronic?

elithrar (a GitHub user) maintains it in elithrar/dotfiles, which has 202 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: elithrar/dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.