| name | ship-options-il |
| description | Enumerate and evaluate every shipping option a listing offers to Israel — carrier lane, cost, lead time, tracking, tax-at-checkout — and recommend one. The logistics half of a buy decision, which the search skills deliberately leave out. |
Shipping Options to Israel
For one listing (or each of a shortlist), open the delivery panel, read every
shipping option offered to Israel, and evaluate them against each other rather than
accepting the default the site pre-selects.
Why this is its own skill
The search skills return a price. The price is the smaller half of the decision for
an Israeli buyer:
- The collapsed shipping row is not the menu. AliExpress pre-selects one option —
usually the cheapest, frequently a 30–60 day lane. A ₪4 upgrade often halves the
wait. You cannot see that without opening the panel.
- "Free shipping" says nothing about speed. Free is routinely the slowest
carrier. See
free-shipping-only, which filters on the flag but explicitly does
not evaluate the lane.
- Ship-from country dominates lead time. An IL-warehouse listing arrives in
days; the identical item from CN takes weeks. The search filter exposes this but
the cards do not always show it.
- Choice is consolidated logistics, which changes both the delivery estimate and
how customs treats the parcel — Choice items in one order likely clear as one
consignment. That matters to
cart-vat-nudge's split-order advice.
- Shipping cost feeds the tax calculation. Once over $75 the VAT is charged on
CIF, so the shipping figure is not a rounding error — see
$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/reference/israel-tax.md.
When to use
- User asks "how long will this take to get here", "what are my shipping options",
"is it worth paying for faster", "does this actually ship to Israel"
- Between
search-aliexpress and a buy decision, on the two or three finalists
- Before
find-under-75, when the landed figure depends on which lane is chosen
- When a listing shows free shipping and the user wants to know the catch
Inputs
url (required) — listing URL, or an item id. Accepts a list for shortlist mode.sku (optional) — variant to price. Shipping can differ per variant (weight
bands); if omitted, use the default and say so.qty (optional, default 1) — shipping frequently does not scale linearly, and
some lanes only unlock above a subtotal.priority (optional, default balanced) — cheapest | fastest | balanced |
tracked. Drives the recommendation, not the extraction.
Browser route
Chrome first. See $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/reference/browser.md for the route order,
tool mapping and the ILS/Hebrew/ship-to-IL locale handshake — do the handshake
before reading any figure, because the whole panel is keyed on ship-to country.
Confirm ship-to is Israel from the rendered page, not from an assumption:
document.body.innerText.match(/ישראל|Israel/)?.[0] ?? 'SHIP-TO NOT CONFIRMED'
If ship-to is not Israel, the options listed belong to another country. Stop, fix
the region, re-read.
Extraction
Selectors for this panel are not yet validated — see the (U) section of
$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/reference/selectors.md. Work text-first, and promote what you
find into that file with a date.
1. Open the panel
The collapsed row shows one option. Find and click the shipping row to expand the
full list:
const row = [...document.querySelectorAll('div,button,a')]
.filter(el => /^(משלוח|Shipping|אספקה|Delivery)/i.test(el.textContent.trim()))
.sort((a, b) => a.textContent.length - b.textContent.length)[0];
Click it with computer/browser_click on the element's box rather than a
synthetic .click() where possible — the panel is sometimes gated on a real
pointer event. A modal ([class*="comet-v2-modal"]) or an inline expansion appears.
2. Read every option
Each option row carries some subset of: carrier/lane name, cost (or "חינם" / "Free"),
estimated delivery window, and a tracking indicator. Extract as text and parse:
[...document.querySelectorAll('[class*="comet-v2-modal"] [class*="item"], [class*="dynamic-shipping"] [class*="line"]')]
.map(el => el.innerText.trim())
.filter(Boolean);
Then parse each blob for:
| Field | Cue |
|---|
carrier | lane name — AliExpress Standard, Choice, Cainiao, a courier brand |
cost_ils | ₪ amount, or free (חינם / Free) |
lead_min / lead_max | day range — 10-30, 10–30 ימים, or a delivery date |
tracked | presence of tracking wording; absence is not proof of untracked |
ship_from | origin country if the panel states one |
Do not invent a field the panel did not show. Emit null and mark it unknown.
A guessed lead time on a logistics decision is worse than a blank.
3. Capture procedure (run once, then update the reference)
The first time this skill runs against the live site, record what actually worked:
the selector that found the row, the selector that enumerated options, and one raw
innerText sample of an option row. Write them into the (U) section of
reference/selectors.md, change the status to V, and date it. That is the whole
point of the section existing.
Evaluation
Rank the options; do not just relay them.
- Normalize — every option to
{cost_ils, cost_usd, lead_min, lead_max}. Use
the shared FX rule (reference/israel-tax.md): live frankfurter rate, print the
rate, stop if unavailable.
- Compute the upgrade cost of time — for each non-cheapest option,
₪ per day saved = (cost − cheapest_cost) / (cheapest_lead_mid − this_lead_mid).
This is the number that actually answers "is faster worth it".
- Flag the structural facts, which matter more than small cost deltas:
- shipping from IL → days not weeks; usually worth a premium
- Choice → consolidated, generally faster and more reliably tracked than a
seller-arranged lane at similar cost
- a lane with no tracking on a parcel worth real money is a risk, not a saving
- an option whose window exceeds the buyer-protection period is a trap — the
protection can lapse before the parcel lands
- Recommend one, per
priority, in a sentence with the reason.
- Hand the chosen shipping cost onward to
fetch-listing / find-under-75 /
cart-vat-nudge — the landed figure is only meaningful for a specific lane.
Output format
Listing: <title> item <id>
Ship-to: Israel (confirmed on page) Locale: ILS verified
Variant: <sku or "default (not selected)"> Qty: <n>
Route: claude-in-chrome FX: 1 USD = ₪<rate> (<source>@<date>)
Shipping options to IL (<N> found):
carrier cost lead tracked
AliExpress Standard ₪7.49 10–30 d yes
Choice consolidated free 12–18 d yes
<lane> ₪24.10 5–9 d yes
← unknown fields shown as "?"
Cost of time:
Choice → <lane>: ₪24.10 for ~8 days saved = ₪3.01/day
Structural notes:
• ships from CN — no IL-warehouse option on this listing
• Choice parcel: consolidates with other Choice items in the same order
• <lane> window (5–9 d) is inside buyer protection; Standard's 30 d upper is not
Recommendation (priority=balanced):
Choice consolidated — free, tracked, and only ~6 days behind the paid lane.
Landed at this lane: item ₪<x> + ship ₪<y> = ₪<z> ($<usd>) VAT band: <…>
Next: `find-under-75` if you are working the de-minimis; `cart-vat-nudge` if buying several.
For shortlist mode, emit one block per listing plus a comparison line naming the
best landed option across all of them — not the best sticker price.
Out of scope
- Order tracking after purchase. Different surface entirely, not covered.
- Predicting customs behaviour beyond the documented bands in
israel-tax.md.
- Local Israeli retailer comparison.
- Changing the selected shipping option in the cart — read-only, per plugin policy.
Validation checklist
- Ship-to Israel confirmed from the rendered page, not assumed.
- The panel was expanded — a single option reported from a collapsed row is a
failure of this skill, not a listing with one option. Say which you saw.
- Every option carries a cost and a lead time, or an explicit
? for what the page
did not show. No inferred values.
- FX rate printed with source and date on any USD figure.
- A recommendation was made and justified in one sentence.
- If selectors had to be discovered,
reference/selectors.md was updated.
