estimate

estimate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools. It costs 75 tokens per session (681 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-sizing workflow that estimates the effort, complexity, risks, and possible work splits for a development task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign a size and hour range to a task, identify its main risks, and split large work into smaller pieces.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear scope and risky parts before work is committed, making estimates more grounded than a single guess.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assign a size and hour range to a task, identify its main risks, and split large work into smaller pieces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools/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 mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools --skill estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 681 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 $0.00075 $0.00681
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00341
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1b91a5ac221b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d 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/workflow/estimate/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/estimate

Size the work before commitment, not after. A bad estimate is usually a missing scope or a hidden risk, not bad math. Estimate surfaces both.

When to use

Before committing to a feature; when the user says "how big is this?" or "estimate"; on /estimate; pairs with /spec once a spec exists.

Commands

  • /estimate — estimate the current task from context.
  • /estimate <feature> — estimate a named feature.
  • /estimate --split — also propose where to split if the size is L or above.

Step 1 — Read the spec / context

  • If context/plan.md or a spec exists, read it. If not, ask the user for the goal and scope (max 3 questions).
  • Scan the code the task touches (imports, callers, tests) to ground the estimate in reality, not optimism.

Step 2 — Size

Produce:

  • SizeS / M / L / XL, with a one-line definition of each band (e.g. S = < 1 session, M = 1–2 sessions, L = 3–5, XL = split required).
  • Hours — a range, not a point (e.g. 4–8h). State assumptions.
  • Riskiest parts — 1–3 items, each with why it's risky.
  • Split candidates — if L or XL, name 2–3 sub-tasks that could ship independently.

Step 3 — Flag what would blow the estimate

  • Hidden scope (touches X, Y, Z systems).
  • Missing specs / unclear acceptance criteria.
  • Destructive ops (migrations, deletions) that need a checkpoint.
  • External dependencies (vendor, another team).

Output

## Estimate
- Size: M (1–2 sessions)
- Hours: 4–8h
- Riskiest: <part> — <why>
- Split candidates: <sub-task A>, <sub-task B>

## What could blow this
- <risk>

Constraints

  • Range, never a point estimate. State assumptions.
  • Ground in the actual code, not optimism.
  • Do not invent scope; if unclear, ask (max 3) or mark as a risk.
  • /workflow/spec (load first) — provides the scope to estimate against.
  • /context/architect — plans the build this estimates.
  • rule/global/ask-dont-guess — ask when scope is unclear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 1b91a5ac221b

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estimate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 681 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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