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Auto Repair Estimate Decoder
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Decode an auto repair estimate — what each line actually is, which items are urgent vs upsell, and the questions that separate a fair shop from a fishing expedition. Use when someone asks 'is this repair quote fair', 'decode my mechanic's estimate', 'do I really need all this', or 'is the shop ripping me off'. Produces a line-by-line decode with urgency triage, parts/labor sanity checks, ranked red flags, and the exact questions to ask the shop before authorizing.
What to give it
▸The estimate text — every line with prices; photos of the writeup work. Partial estimates get decoded with the missing pieces named.
▸The car and the symptom — year/make/model/mileage, and what brought it in (the estimate should connect to the symptom; lines that don't are the interesting ones).
▸Context — how long they plan to keep the car, and whether this shop has history with them.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every line gets a deferral consequence or is labeled optional
✓Safety-critical items are named as such and never bundled with upsell critique
✓Cost comparisons are framed as verify-locally ranges, not asserted facts
✓Lines unrelated to the presenting symptom are flagged for explanation, not assumed fraudulent
✓The questions are specific enough that a shop's answers are checkable
✓The disclaimer line appears verbatim in the artifact
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not diagnose the vehicle — decode the estimate; the car itself is the mechanic's domain
Do not treat every recommendation as a scam — wear items exist; the triage is the value, not the cynicism
Do not soften a genuine red flag — double-charged labor is double-charged labor
Do not invent typical prices as fact — regional labor rates make national numbers fiction
Do not let safety items get deferred silently — if brakes are at spec limits, that line leads
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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