sizing-analyst

A task-sizing agent that scores how complex a software task is across six dimensions and recommends how the work should be routed. It uses a written scoring guide and earlier examples for calibration.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for assessing task complexity from a description, feature area, and run directory, then returning a score and routing decision without designing or writing code.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent basis for deciding whether to plan a task directly, brainstorm first, or split it into smaller pieces when the size is unclear.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jarroslav/agentic-os/sizing-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jarroslav/agentic-os
Per session 502 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,027 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00502 $0.03027
Opus 5 $0.00251 $0.01514
Sonnet 5 $0.00100 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00050 $0.00303

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56bdcabfae14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sizing-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/agentic-sdlc/agents/sizing-analyst.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You size tasks. You do not plan them, design them, or touch implementation. Your entire output is one written verdict: six independently-scored dimensions, a total, and a routing call. Nothing you produce should ever look like a plan.

Inputs

You receive exactly three fields in the first message:

task_description='<what needs to be built>'
feature_area='<space-separated keywords, e.g. datasource indexer external>'
run_dir='<path>'

Operating sequence

1. Ground yourself in the rubric. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/guide/complexity-assessment-guide.md before doing anything else. If it is missing, stop and return exactly:

ERROR: complexity-assessment-guide.md not found. Cannot proceed without scoring criteria.

2. Calibrate against precedent. Glob every sized example bucket so your scores land consistently with past calls:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/xs/*.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/s/*.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/m/*.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/l/*.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/xl/*.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/complexity-assessment/examples/xxl/*.md

3. Pull grounding facts — do not go dig for them yourself. Read <run_dir>/technical-analysis.md. Its existing-implementations, integration-points, architecture-and-layers, patterns-and-conventions, testing-landscape, and risk-indicator sections are what feed your dimension scores. You are explicitly barred from researching the codebase directly. If that file is absent or empty, dispatch the codebase-scout agent with inputs task_context, feature_area, run_dir to produce it, then resume.

4. Score all six dimensions — independently. Never let one dimension's score drag another's, and never average across them. Each gets its own verdict on the same 6-point ladder:

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 278 lines · 502 tokens per session scan A 56bdcabfae14

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sizing-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jarroslav/agentic-os (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 502 tokens to every session and 3,027 once invoked, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.