buy-me-a-carlisted

# Buy Me a Car > **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. > **Caveat (cont)**: This is a 0.2.0 alpha release. Sub-skills handle narrow tasks; this orchestrator runs the full pipeline. End-to-end pre-purchase workflow for new and used cars. Tuned for Subaru/Honda/Toyota/Mazda SUVs in the NJ tri-state area but the structure generalizes. ## When To Use Scope, in one line: this skill runs the purchase end to end for a new or used car. Multi-site inventory search, mass dealer outreach, Gmail reply monitoring on a cron, OTD negotiation with market-data anchors, CARFAX and service-record PDF analysis, and decision dossiers for test drives. That sentence used to live in the frontmatter `description`, which is loaded into every turn's system prompt whether or not the skill fires; it lives here instead because this file is loaded on invocation, when the list is actually useful. The `description` now carries trigger phrases only, and only as many as the 180-char cap holds: the 17 phrases are 246 chars before separators. Complete list: `README.md` § orchestrator. - Buyer wants to evaluate inventory across multiple dealers / sites - Buyer wants written OTD by email before stepping on a lot - Buyer needs a market-data-backed anchor for a counter-offer - Buyer wants a