estimate

estimate is a command for Claude Code from smrafiz/claude-supercharger. It costs 0 tokens per session (411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report-only command that estimates a coding task's work, complexity, time, dependencies, risks, and unknowns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Used to break a task into subtasks, estimate files and effort, identify the critical path, and state confidence in the estimate.
Why use it?
It helps set expectations before work begins without changing code or creating an implementation plan.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the supercharger plugin — 37 commands, 10 agents, 28 hooks shipped together

Good fit Used to break a task into subtasks, estimate files and effort, identify the critical path, and state confidence in the estimate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/smrafiz/claude-supercharger/estimate
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/smrafiz/claude-supercharger

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supercharger, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 commands, 10 agents, 28 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 411 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 $0.00000 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00041

Measured 9d ago against content hash f484cba57f5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

commands/estimate.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Scoped time + complexity estimate for: $ARGUMENTS

Do NOT write code. Do NOT start work. This is a report-only analysis.

Step 1 — Decompose the task List concrete subtasks (5-10 max). Each must be a discrete unit of work.

Step 2 — Estimate per subtask For each subtask, estimate:

  • Files touched (count + list)
  • Lines changed (rough — under 50 / 50-200 / over 200)
  • Tool calls (rough — under 10 / 10-30 / over 30)
  • Wall-clock time (under 15 min / 15-60 min / over 1 hour)
  • Risk (low/med/high) with one-line reason

Step 3 — Identify dependencies Which subtasks block others? Critical path?

Step 4 — Surface unknowns List explicit "I don't know yet" items that would change the estimate. These need user clarification or investigation BEFORE work starts.

Step 5 — Bottom line Total estimated turns and wall-clock. Confidence level (low/med/high).

Output format:

TASK: [one sentence]

DECOMPOSITION:
  1. [subtask] — [files/lines/turns/time/risk]
  2. [subtask] — [files/lines/turns/time/risk]
  ...

CRITICAL PATH: [N] → [N] → [N] (subtasks that block downstream work)

UNKNOWNS:
  - [unknown 1]: would change estimate by [+X turns / +X min]
  - [unknown 2]: ...

TOTAL: ~[N] turns, ~[T] wall-clock
CONFIDENCE: [low/med/high] — [reason]

Proceed? (Estimate only — wait for user approval before any code.)

End after the report. Do not start work even if asked in the same prompt — require explicit confirmation in a separate prompt.

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. 9d ago First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f484cba57f5c

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estimate is a command published in the GitHub repository smrafiz/claude-supercharger (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 411 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.