Ask Claude about any vehicle and get answers from live Auto.dev data. Decode a VIN, search cars for sale, and pull photos, specifications, recalls, payment and interest-rate estimates, taxes and fees, and total cost of ownership, without leaving the conversation.
- The Auto.dev connector, the hosted MCP server at
https://mcp.auto.dev/mcp. It gives Claude 14 read-only tools. None of them changes your data. - The
vehicle-dataskill, which tells Claude which tool answers which question, how to check a VIN before calling a tool, and how to explain plan limits.
- Add the plugin, then open its Connectors tab and connect Auto.dev. In Claude Code,
run
/mcpand choose Authenticate forauto-dev. - Sign in with your Auto.dev account, or create one. Sign-in happens on id.org.ai, the sign-in service Auto.dev uses. The Free plan needs no card.
- Ask something like "Decode WP0AF2A99KS165242" or "Find 2021 to 2023 Toyota RAV4s under $30,000 in Texas".
VIN decode, listings, and photos work on every plan, including Free. Specs, build data, recalls, payments, interest rates, and cost of ownership need Growth. Open recalls, plate-to-VIN, and taxes and fees need Scale. Every tool call is an Auto.dev API request: it counts toward the Free plan's 1,000 included calls, or is billed at your plan's per-call data rate on Growth and Scale. One "everything about this car" request can make several calls. See pricing.
When Claude calls a tool, the plugin sends that tool's inputs, such as a VIN, search filters,
a ZIP code, a credit score, or a license plate you provide, to Auto.dev
through mcp.auto.dev. Auto.dev logs each request for billing and usage reporting. The plugin
itself stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere else. Read the
privacy policy.
Email team@auto.dev, or read the documentation.