estimate

A command for estimating the time, effort, or complexity of development work. It examines the scope, dependencies, complexity, and patterns in the project before presenting an estimate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate tasks, features, or projects in hours, days, or weeks. It can provide a breakdown, risk factors, and confidence intervals.
Why use it?
It turns a broad development request into a clearer breakdown with stated risks and confidence. This supports planning and decisions about project scope and resources.

Command

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 commands/drag88/claude-dev-framework/estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drag88/claude-dev-framework
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 330 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 $0.00013 $0.00330
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00165
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00033

Measured yesterday against content hash 15dce73bdf2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estimate 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/estimate.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

/cdf:estimate - Development Estimation

Triggers

  • Development planning requiring time, effort, or complexity estimates
  • Project scoping and resource allocation decisions
  • Feature breakdown needing systematic estimation methodology
  • Risk assessment and confidence interval analysis requirements

Usage

/cdf:estimate [target] [--type time|effort|complexity] [--unit hours|days|weeks] [--breakdown]

Behavioral Flow

  1. Analyze: Examine scope, complexity factors, dependencies, and framework patterns
  2. Calculate: Apply estimation methodology with historical benchmarks and complexity scoring
  3. Validate: Cross-reference estimates with project patterns and domain expertise
  4. Present: Provide detailed breakdown with confidence intervals and risk assessment
  5. Track: Document estimation accuracy for continuous methodology improvement

Key behaviors:

  • Intelligent breakdown analysis with confidence intervals and risk factors
  • Use judgement on conventions already in the repo; delegate via /cdf:task with role framing only when multi-file fan-out is warranted.

Examples

/cdf:estimate "user authentication system" --type time --unit days --breakdown

Boundaries

Will:

  • Provide systematic development estimates with confidence intervals and risk assessment
  • Generate detailed breakdown analysis with historical benchmark comparisons

Will Not:

  • Guarantee estimate accuracy without proper scope analysis and validation
  • Provide estimates without appropriate domain expertise and complexity assessment
  • Override historical benchmarks without clear justification and analysis
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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 15dce73bdf2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

estimate is a command published in the GitHub repository drag88/claude-dev-framework (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 330 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.