Agent skill

Car Buying Negotiation

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings.

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Install Car Buying Negotiation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill car-buying-negotiation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills car-buying-negotiation --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/car-buying-negotiation .claude/skills/car-buying-negotiation && 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
car-buying-negotiation
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
607 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings.

  • Works in 6 steps: Negotiate the total, not the monthly.… → Know your target first. Research… → Keep the three deals separate. Settle… → …
  • Asked to help me negotiate a car
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Out-The-Door Price,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Car Buying Negotiation is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings. Use when asked to help me negotiate a car, buy a car without getting ripped off, what should I pay for this car, or dealership negotiation tips. Produces a target-price approach (research the out-the-door price), the dealer tactics to expect and counters, guidance on separating price/trade/financing, the add-ons to decline, and a walk-away plan —…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to help me negotiate a car
  • Buy a car without getting ripped off
  • What should I pay for this car
  • Dealership negotiation tips

Example prompts

  • “/car-buying-negotiation”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Negotiate the total, not the monthly. Dealers steer to monthly payments to hide the real price and stretch the term — anchor on the…
  2. Know your target first. Research market/fair pricing so you negotiate from a number, not vibes; a slow-moving or ideal deal informs your…
  3. Keep the three deals separate. Settle the car price before discussing trade-in, and arrange financing independently — bundling is how…
  4. Get pre-approved financing. A pre-approval forces the dealer's rate to beat it; without it, they profit on the loan.
  5. Decline the add-ons. Most F&I extras are high-margin and optional — decline politely; evaluate the few (like a warranty) on their own…
  6. Be ready to walk. A firm walk-away number and genuine willingness to leave is the strongest leverage you have — and verify current…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Car Buying Negotiation loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 147 tokens; SKILL.md has 607 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~147
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 607 words, ~1,231 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/car-buying-negotiation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
car-buying-negotiation
description
Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings. Use when asked to help me negotiate a car, buy a car without getting ripped off, what should I pay for this car, or dealership negotiation tips. Produces a target-price approach (research the out-the-door price), the dealer tactics to expect and counters, guidance on separating price/trade/financing, the add-ons to decline, and a walk-away plan — flagging to verify current pricing and rates.

Car-Buying Negotiation

Dealerships negotiate cars for a living; most buyers do it every few years — that asymmetry is the whole game. This levels it: research the real target price, negotiate the out-the-door number (not the monthly payment), keep the trade-in and financing as separate battles, and decline the high-margin add-ons — with the confidence that you'll walk if the deal isn't right.

What This Skill Produces

  • A target-price approach — how to research a fair price and negotiate the total out-the-door cost, not the monthly payment
  • Tactics & counters — the common dealership moves (monthly-payment focus, four-square, "let me ask my manager," urgency, lowball trade) and how to handle each
  • Separate the battles — negotiating price, trade-in value, and financing independently so they can't be shuffled
  • Add-ons to decline — the high-margin extras (paint protection, extended warranties, fabric guard, etc.) and which are worth it
  • Financing guidance — get pre-approved so the dealer's rate must compete, and watch the loan term/total cost
  • A walk-away plan — the number and the readiness to leave, which is your real leverage

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The car — make/model/trim, new or used, and any specific one you're eyeing
  • Your research — do you know the fair/market price, or need the approach
  • Trade-in — are you trading a vehicle
  • Financing — cash, dealer finance, or pre-approved elsewhere
  • Your position — how urgently you need it, and your walk-away willingness

Framework: Out-The-Door Price, Battles Separated, Ready To Walk

  1. Negotiate the total, not the monthly. Dealers steer to monthly payments to hide the real price and stretch the term — anchor on the out-the-door number.
  2. Know your target first. Research market/fair pricing so you negotiate from a number, not vibes; a slow-moving or ideal deal informs your target.
  3. Keep the three deals separate. Settle the car price before discussing trade-in, and arrange financing independently — bundling is how margin hides.
  4. Get pre-approved financing. A pre-approval forces the dealer's rate to beat it; without it, they profit on the loan.
  5. Decline the add-ons. Most F&I extras are high-margin and optional — decline politely; evaluate the few (like a warranty) on their own merits.
  6. Be ready to walk. A firm walk-away number and genuine willingness to leave is the strongest leverage you have — and verify current prices/rates, which move.
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Output Format

Car negotiation: [car] · [new/used] · trade-in? [y/n] · financing [x]

Target: research [fair/market out-the-door price] — negotiate the total, not the monthly. Expect & counter

  • Monthly-payment focus → "let's talk out-the-door total."
  • "Ask my manager" / urgency → [hold; you're not in a hurry].
  • Lowball trade → [get it valued separately first]. Keep separate: car price → then trade-in → then financing. Get pre-approved financing so their rate must beat it. Decline: [paint/fabric protection, gap unless worth it, etc.]; consider [warranty] on merits. Walk-away: your number is [x] — and mean it.

Verify current market pricing, incentives, and finance rates before you go — they change constantly.

Quality Checks

  • Anchors on out-the-door total, not monthly payment
  • Starts from a researched target price
  • Separates price, trade-in, and financing
  • Recommends pre-approved financing
  • Lists add-ons to decline and how to evaluate the few worth it
  • Includes a real walk-away plan and a verify-pricing note

Anti-Patterns

  • Negotiating the monthly payment — the dealer's favorite trap.
  • No target price — negotiating blind.
  • Bundling trade-in and financing into the price.
  • Taking dealer financing without a pre-approval to beat.
  • Accepting add-ons by default.
  • No willingness to walk — forfeiting all leverage.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me negotiate buying a used car without getting ripped off."
  • "What should I actually pay for this car?"
  • "The dealer keeps talking monthly payments — how do I handle that?"
  • "Which dealership add-ons should I say no to?"
  • "How do I negotiate my trade-in and the price separately?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/car-buying-negotiation of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Car Buying Negotiation

What does Car Buying Negotiation do?

Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings. Car Buying Negotiation is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Negotiate a car purchase without getting played — know the real target price, handle the dealership tactics, and keep the financing and add-ons from eating your savings.

When should I use Car Buying Negotiation?

Car Buying Negotiation fits situations like: asked to help me negotiate a car; buy a car without getting ripped off; what should I pay for this car; dealership negotiation tips.

How do I install Car Buying Negotiation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill car-buying-negotiation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/car-buying-negotiation in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/car-buying-negotiation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Car Buying Negotiation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill car-buying-negotiation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/car-buying-negotiation in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/car-buying-negotiation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Car Buying Negotiation 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill car-buying-negotiation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/car-buying-negotiation, .gemini/skills/car-buying-negotiation, .github/skills/car-buying-negotiation and .opencode/skills/car-buying-negotiation in your project.

What does Car Buying Negotiation need to run?

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

Does Car Buying Negotiation 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 Car Buying Negotiation 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 Car Buying Negotiation use?

Car Buying Negotiation 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 Car Buying Negotiation use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Car Buying Negotiation?

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Who maintains Car Buying Negotiation?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.