Agent skill · data analytics · mvanhorn
pp-vehicle-safety
Build source-attributed vehicle safety dossiers, honest comparisons, and recall-change reports from NHTSA data. Trigger phrases: `check this VIN`, `compare two cars for safety`, `watch my fleet for recalls`, `show NHTSA complaints`, `use vehicle safety`, `run vehicle safety`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands for querying NHTSA data that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires vehicle-safety-pp-cli installed locally. About 15k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Vehicle Safety — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the vehicle-safety-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: vehicle-safety-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Query NHTSA recalls, complaints, ratings, product catalogs, and VIN decoding, then preserve observations locally. Compound commands distinguish raw reports from rates and model-wide campaigns from VIN-specific open recalls. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI for vehicle recall, complaint, crash-rating, and VIN research that benefits from reproducible local history. Prefer its compound commands when an agent needs evidence and caveats, not merely one raw response. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use it for bulk commercial VIN sweeps. Do not treat complaint counts as failure rates or the compound output as a safety certification. Do not use it to file complaints or perform vehicle repairs. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Evidence-first vehicle research dossier — See identity, recall and complaint summaries, and available crash ratings in one source-attributed report; add --include-records for complete source records. Use this instead of stitching several NHTSA responses together manually. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-vehicle-safety--b479ee