estimate

estimate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios. It costs 28 tokens per session (955 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of estimate, MIT.

An effort-estimation workflow that studies a task, the code it may affect, its dependencies, past project speed, and risks. It produces an estimate with a confidence level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before scheduling a feature or technical task to understand its likely complexity, affected systems, testing needs, and delivery risk.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses with an estimate based on the size and uncertainty of the actual work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/striderza/opencodegamestudios/estimate
Any agent
npx skills add striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios --skill estimate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 955 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.00955
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured yesterday against content hash aeef37d1aa4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to estimate — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/modules/design/skills/estimate/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 1: Understand the Task

Read the task description from the argument. If the description is too vague to estimate meaningfully, ask for clarification before proceeding.

Read AGENTS.md for project context: tech stack, coding standards, architectural patterns, and any estimation guidelines.

Read relevant design documents from design/gdd/ if the task relates to a documented feature or system.


Phase 2: Scan Affected Code

Identify files and modules that would need to change:

  • Assess complexity (size, dependency count, cyclomatic complexity)
  • Identify integration points with other systems
  • Check for existing test coverage in the affected areas
  • Read past sprint data from production/sprints/ for similar completed tasks and historical velocity

Phase 3: Analyze Complexity Factors

Code Complexity:

  • Lines of code in affected files
  • Number of dependencies and coupling level
  • Whether this touches core/engine code vs leaf/feature code
  • Whether existing patterns can be followed or new patterns are needed

Scope:

  • Number of systems touched
  • New code vs modification of existing code
  • Amount of new test coverage required
  • Data migration or configuration changes needed

Risk:

  • New technology or unfamiliar libraries
  • Unclear or ambiguous requirements
  • Dependencies on unfinished work
  • Cross-system integration complexity
  • Performance sensitivity

Phase 4: Generate the Estimate

## Task Estimate: [Task Name]
Generated: [Date]

### Task Description
[Restate the task clearly in 1-2 sentences]

### Complexity Assessment

| Factor | Assessment | Notes |
|--------|-----------|-------|
| Systems affected | [List] | [Core, gameplay, UI, etc.] |
| Files likely modified | [Count] | [Key files listed below] |
| New code vs modification | [Ratio] | |
| Integration points | [Count] | [Which systems interact] |
| Test coverage needed | [Low / Medium / High] | |
| Existing patterns available | [Yes / Partial / No] | |

**Key files likely affected:**
- `[path/to/file1]` -- [what changes here]

### Effort Estimate

| Scenario | Days | Assumption |
|----------|------|------------|
| Optimistic | [X] | Everything goes right, no surprises |
| Expected | [Y] | Normal pace, minor issues, one round of review |
| Pessimistic | [Z] | Significant unknowns surface, blocked for a day |

**Recommended budget: [Y days]**

### Confidence: [High / Medium / Low]

[Explain which factors drive the confidence level for this specific task.]

### Risk Factors

| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation |
|------|-----------|--------|------------|

### Dependencies

| Dependency | Status | Impact if Delayed |
|-----------|--------|-------------------|

### Suggested Breakdown

| # | Sub-task | Estimate | Notes |
|---|----------|----------|-------|
| 1 | [Research / spike] | [X days] | |
| 2 | [Core implementation] | [X days] | |
| 3 | [Testing and validation] | [X days] | |
| | **Total** | **[Y days]** | |

### Notes and Assumptions
- [Key assumption that affects the estimate]
- [Any caveats about scope boundaries]

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. yesterday First seen · 132 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A aeef37d1aa4f

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estimate is a skill published in the GitHub repository striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios (84 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 955 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to estimate, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.