generate-estimate

generate-estimate is a skill for Claude Code from KirKruglov/claude-project-manager. It costs 174 tokens per session (2,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rough IT project estimate covering the expected timeline and budget in optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic scenarios.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during project initiation to estimate delivery time and cost from project details such as the project type, charter, constraints, and team information.
Why use it?
It gives an early range for planning before detailed project information is available. The estimate is based on similar types of IT projects and can be reviewed and adjusted.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the project-manager plugin — 21 skills, 8 commands, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it during project initiation to estimate delivery time and cost from project details such as the project type, charter, constraints, and team information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirkruglov/claude-project-manager/generate-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.

Any agent
npx skills add KirKruglov/claude-project-manager --skill generate-estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KirKruglov/claude-project-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 8 commands, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,242 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 $0.00174 $0.02242
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.01121
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00224

Measured 10d ago against content hash 134861e08ef7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 10d 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.

skills/generate-estimate/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: generate-estimate

Generates a preliminary timeline and budget estimate for an IT project at the Initiation phase (Phase 1). Uses analogy-based estimation with built-in knowledge of typical IT project benchmarks. Output: preliminary-estimate.xlsx with three scenarios (optimistic / realistic / pessimistic). Mode B: agent prepares draft, PM reviews and adjusts.


Triggers

Russian: «сформируй оценку сроков», «подготовь предварительную оценку», «оцени сроки проекта», «сделай оценку по аналогам», «нужна предварительная оценка», «оцени бюджет», «ballpark-оценка» English: "generate estimate", "preliminary estimate", "estimate timeline and budget", "create project estimate", "ballpark estimate", "rough estimate"


Language Detection

Determine the language of the user's request:

  • If the request is in Russian → use templates with the -ru suffix
  • Otherwise → use templates with the -en suffix
  • All output (headings, labels, agent messages) must match the detected language.

Input

Data Required Source Notes
Project name and type yes CLAUDE.md, project-charter.md, or command Types: MVP / redesign / integration / GTM / feature set / internal tool
Scope / key deliverables yes questionnaire-client.md, project-charter.md, or command Used to determine phases
Constraints (budget, deadline) no constraints.md or command If present — adjust analogue accordingly
Team composition no team-list.md or command Roles and headcount. If absent — agent derives from analogue
Role rates no CLAUDE.md or command If not provided — use rates from estimate-analogues.md
GTM in scope no project-charter.md, questionnaire-client.md Affects presence of Budget Section C

Output

File Project path Format
preliminary-estimate.xlsx {project}/01-initiation/ .xlsx

File structure — 3 sheets (Summary, Timeline, Budget) — described in templates/preliminary-estimate-{lang}.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 221 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 134861e08ef7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-estimate is a skill published in the GitHub repository KirKruglov/claude-project-manager (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 2,242 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.