planning-estimate

planning-estimate is a skill for Claude Code from simota/planning-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A work-estimation method that gives time ranges for tasks instead of a single exact number. It also accounts for dependencies, the critical path, buffer, schedule risks, and factors that could change the estimate.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps estimate projects, identify the critical path, add suitable contingency, and explain what could make the schedule longer.
Why use it?
It makes uncertainty visible and shows which tasks control the delivery date.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the planning-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps estimate projects, identify the critical path, add suitable contingency, and explain what could make the schedule longer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/simota/planning-skills/planning-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 simota/planning-skills --skill planning-estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simota/planning-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install planning-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 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 unknown 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 $0.00036 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00200

Measured 5d ago against content hash 40da91d1061e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-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 5d 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/planning-estimate/SKILL.md · 134 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 5d ago Changed · -1 lines 40da91d1061e
  2. 9d ago First seen · 135 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f7e800f01b13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-estimate is a skill published in the GitHub repository simota/planning-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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