estimate-issue

estimate-issue is a command for Claude Code from quay/ai-helpers. It costs 9 tokens per session (1,785 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A JIRA issue estimator that examines an issue, its linked work, and the affected code areas to produce estimates for complexity, effort, and risk. JIRA is a system teams use to track software work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Estimating bugs, stories, tasks, and other JIRA work items, including likely affected frontend, backend, database, worker, and test areas.
Why use it?
It helps turn a short issue description into a more informed view of scope by checking the code, tests, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the jira plugin — 2 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Estimating bugs, stories, tasks, and other JIRA work items, including likely affected frontend, backend, database, worker, and test areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/quay/ai-helpers/estimate-issue
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quay/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jira, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,785 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.01785
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00178

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2d7bb426d9fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estimate-issue 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/jira/commands/estimate-issue.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Estimate Issue Complexity

Analyze a JIRA issue and provide a comprehensive complexity estimate with size, effort, and risk metrics for a senior developer with Claude assistance.

Issue Key

The JIRA issue to estimate: $ARGUMENTS


Phase 1: Gather Issue Information

Step 1: Fetch Issue Details

Retrieve the full issue information from JIRA:

acli jira workitem view $ARGUMENTS

Extract and note:

  • Issue type (Bug, Story, Task, Epic, etc.)
  • Summary and full description
  • Component(s) affected
  • Priority
  • Labels
  • Acceptance criteria (if present)
  • Comments with additional context
  • Linked issues (blockers, dependencies)

Phase 2: Codebase Impact Analysis

Step 2: Identify Affected Areas

Based on the issue description, search the codebase to understand scope:

For UI issues:

  • Search web/src/ for related components
  • Check routing in web/src/routes/
  • Look for existing tests in web/cypress/e2e/

For Backend issues:

  • Search endpoints/ for related API routes
  • Check data/model/ for affected business logic
  • Look at data/database.py for schema impacts
  • Check workers/ if background jobs are involved

For both:

  • Count files likely to be modified
  • Identify test files that need updates
  • Check for migration requirements

Step 3: Analyze Dependencies

  • Are there linked/blocking issues?
  • Does this require coordination with other teams?
  • Are there external API or service dependencies?
  • Does this require database migrations?
  • Does this require configuration changes?

Phase 3: Complexity Assessment

Complexity Dimensions

Evaluate each dimension on a scale of 1-5:

Dimension 1 (Low) 3 (Medium) 5 (High)
Code Scope 1-2 files 3-5 files 6+ files
Logic Complexity Simple CRUD Business rules Algorithmic/Distributed
Testing Effort Update existing New unit tests New e2e + integration
Risk Level Isolated change Touches shared code Core system change
Uncertainty Clear requirements Some ambiguity Needs spike/research
Dependencies None Internal deps External/blocking

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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 · 214 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 2d7bb426d9fc

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estimate-issue is a command published in the GitHub repository quay/ai-helpers (3 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 1,785 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-04.