Mechanic

Vehicle maintenance tracker and mechanic advisor. Tracks mileage, service intervals, fuel economy, costs, warranties, and recalls. Researches manufacturer schedules, estimates costs, projects service dates, tracks providers, and proactively reminds about upcoming/overdue services. Supports VIN decode and auto-population of vehicle specs, NHTSA recall monitoring, MPG tracking with anomaly detection, warranty expiration alerts, pre-trip/seasonal checklists, mileage projection, service provider history, tax deduction integration, emergency info cards, and cost-per-mile analysis. Use when discussing vehicle maintenance, oil changes, service intervals, mileage tracking, fuel economy, warranties, recalls, RV maintenance, roof sealing, generator service, slide-outs, winterization, or anything mechanic-related. Supports any vehicle type including trucks, cars, motorcycles, dirt bikes, ATVs, RVs, and boats.

This skill appears coherent for vehicle maintenance use, but review two things before installing: (1) Cron/scheduling: inspect the SKILL.md section on 'Mileage Check Setup' to see whether it will write to your crontab or ask you to — only allow it if you trust the exact commands and schedule. (2) Sensitive local data: the skill stores VINs, insurance IDs, phone numbers, and policy data in <workspace>/data/mechanic/. Ensure you are comfortable storing that in your workspace (consider filesystem permissions, backups, or encrypting the folder). Also review the SKILL.md for any external endpoints it will call (beyond the public NHTSA API) and confirm the platform will prompt/require consent for network access or scheduled task creation.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: mechanic Version: 1.1.0 The 'mechanic' skill is designed for vehicle maintenance tracking, utilizing file system access to manage its own data (`state.json`, `*-schedule.json` in `<workspace>/data/mechanic/`) and optionally integrating with a 'tax-professional' skill's data (`data/tax-professional/YYYY-expenses.json`) upon user confirmation. It makes legitimate, unauthenticated API calls to NHTSA for VIN decoding and recall monitoring. The skill also sets up and manages a cron job for scheduled mileage check-ins and recall updates, which is a form of persistence but is clearly documented and aligned with its stated purpose. There is no evidence of malicious prompt injection, data exfiltration to unauthorized endpoints, or other harmful behaviors. All capabilities are transparently described and serve the skill's core function.