don-cheli-sdd: Skill for Claude Code

.agent/skills/doncheli-estimate/SKILL.md

doncheli-estimate is a skill for Claude Code from doncheli/don-cheli-sdd. It costs 61 tokens per session (468 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An effort-estimation process that compares a software task using four methods: feature-size counting, expert planning guesses, a project-size model, and similar past work. It combines the results into a range and records assumptions and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps estimate features, stories, or tasks in hours, days, or story points, using project history and separate optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic views.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on one uncertain guess about time or cost. Comparing methods exposes hidden work and shows how confident the estimate is.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

This is doncheli/don-cheli-sdd's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on don-cheli-sdd itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything don-cheli-sdd configures →

Part of the don-cheli-sdd plugin — 28 skills, 115 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to doncheli/don-cheli-sdd. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doncheli/don-cheli-sdd/main/.agent/skills/doncheli-estimate/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doncheli/don-cheli-sdd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install don-cheli-sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 115 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 11d ago against content hash 655acf05d474, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doncheli-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 11d 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.

.agent/skills/doncheli-estimate/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Don Cheli: Estimation Engine

Instructions

  1. Read the feature, story or task description
  2. Run all 4 estimation models independently (treat each as a separate agent):
    • Function Points: count inputs, outputs, queries, files, interfaces; apply complexity weights
    • Planning Poker AI: 3 independent agents guess simultaneously (pessimist, realist, optimist), then reconcile using Delphi method
    • COCOMO II: classify project size (Organic / Semi-detached / Embedded), apply effort equation
    • Historical: look for comparable past tasks in .dc/hallazgos.md and docs/; extrapolate velocity
  3. Compute the consolidated estimate with 90% confidence interval
  4. Flag hidden risks that inflate variance

Output Format

## Estimation: <feature name>

| Model            | Estimate   | Unit       | Confidence |
|------------------|------------|------------|------------|
| Function Points  | X          | hours      | medium     |
| Planning Poker   | X–Y        | story pts  | high       |
| COCOMO II        | X          | person-days| medium     |
| Historical       | X          | days       | low/med    |

**Consolidated:** X–Y days (90% CI)
**Key assumptions:** …
**Top 3 risks that increase variance:** …

Quality Gate

  • All 4 models must be executed; do not skip any
  • If Historical has no comparable baseline, mark as N/A and explain
  • If Planning Poker spread > 2x, escalate: ask the user to clarify scope before finalizing

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is trivially small (< 1 hour) — just state it directly
  • The user is asking for a rough gut-feel order of magnitude; use a one-liner instead
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. 11d ago First seen · 46 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 655acf05d474

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doncheli-estimate is a skill published in the GitHub repository doncheli/don-cheli-sdd (57 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.