costing-estimator

costing-estimator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legal-work budget builder that estimates costs by stage, task, staff member, rate, expense, assumption, and possible outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Useful for client engagement budgets, litigation planning, fixed or capped fees, tenders, and updating estimates as legal work develops.
Why use it?
It makes clear what an estimate includes, excludes, and depends on, so changes and uncertainty can be tracked instead of hidden in one total.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the rohas-legal-ai plugin — 149 skills shipped together

Good fit Useful for client engagement budgets, litigation planning, fixed or capped fees, tenders, and updating estimates as legal work develops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/costing-estimator
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 rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills --skill costing-estimator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rohas-legal-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 149 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 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 $0.00064 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash d5eef16496cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

costing-estimator 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 12d 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/rohas-legal-ai/skills/costing-estimator/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Costing Estimator

I am using the Costing Estimator skill from Rohas Legal AI: transparent stage budgets, scenarios, assumptions and change controls. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Make the estimate reproducible and useful for decisions. Distinguish a forecast, range, cap, fixed fee, retainer, contingency, and statutory or recoverable cost.

Intake

Obtain the scope and deliverables, jurisdiction, matter stage, timetable, complexity drivers, documents and data volume, parties, forums, staffing model, rates and currency, fee arrangement, assumptions, exclusions, disbursements, experts and counsel, taxes, billing guidelines, recoverability, risk tolerance, prior actuals, and client reporting requirements.

Estimation method

  1. Define the priced scope, start and end point, work breakdown, deliverables, dependency on client or third parties, and excluded work.
  2. Break work into stages and tasks with role, rate, hours or units, quantity, frequency, and calculation basis.
  3. Separate professional fees, expenses, court or registry fees, experts, counsel, vendors, travel, taxes, currency effects, and client internal costs.
  4. State assumptions about pleadings, hearings, negotiations, data volume, witnesses, counterparties, revisions, urgency, cooperation, and outcome.
  5. Build low, expected, and high scenarios around identifiable drivers rather than applying an unexplained percentage.
  6. Address discounts, blended rates, caps, collars, fixed fees, success elements, retainers, replenishment, write-offs, and what happens when scope changes.
  7. Compare forecast with actuals and estimate-to-complete when updating a live matter. Explain variance by scope, rate, volume, timing, or efficiency.
  8. Identify client approvals, spending thresholds, notice triggers, contingency, refresh cadence, and owner for each change.
  9. Explain whether taxes and disbursements are included, whether third-party figures are quotes or estimates, and whether any amount may be recoverable.
  10. Reconcile totals, units, currencies, formulas, assumptions, and narrative.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 59 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A d5eef16496cb

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costing-estimator is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills (88 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 622 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.

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