estimate

estimate is a command for coding agents from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework. It costs 15 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for estimating the time, effort, or complexity of development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate a task, feature, or project in hours, days, or weeks, with an optional detailed breakdown.
Why use it?
It breaks work into smaller parts and records dependencies, risks, and confidence ranges, making project planning less dependent on a single rough guess.

Command

Part of the superclaude plugin — 2 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework

Or install superclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for estimate

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 743 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 $0.00015 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00074

Measured 4d ago against content hash fe772a89d263, 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 4d 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/superclaude/commands/estimate.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sc: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

/sc: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:

  • Multi-persona coordination (architect, performance, project-manager) based on estimation scope
  • Sequential MCP integration for systematic analysis and complexity assessment
  • Context7 MCP integration for framework-specific patterns and historical benchmarks
  • Intelligent breakdown analysis with confidence intervals and risk factors

MCP Integration

  • Sequential MCP: Complex multi-step estimation analysis and systematic complexity assessment
  • Context7 MCP: Framework-specific estimation patterns and historical benchmark data
  • Persona Coordination: Architect (design complexity), Performance (optimization effort), Project Manager (timeline)

Tool Coordination

  • Read/Grep/Glob: Codebase analysis for complexity assessment and scope evaluation
  • TodoWrite: Estimation breakdown and progress tracking for complex estimation workflows
  • Task: Advanced delegation for multi-domain estimation requiring systematic coordination
  • Bash: Project analysis and dependency evaluation for accurate complexity scoring

Key Patterns

  • Scope Analysis: Project requirements → complexity factors → framework patterns → risk assessment
  • Estimation Methodology: Time-based → Effort-based → Complexity-based → Cost-based approaches
  • Multi-Domain Assessment: Architecture complexity → Performance requirements → Project timeline
  • Validation Framework: Historical benchmarks → cross-validation → confidence intervals → accuracy tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 4d ago First seen · 88 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A fe772a89d263

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estimate is a command published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,866 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 743 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 2026-08-30.