project-sizing-guide

A software project effort-estimation guide. It breaks requirements into work items and estimates them using three-point estimates, T-shirt sizes, or Function Point Analysis, a way to measure software functionality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feasibility studies, rough budgets, sprint planning, and detailed estimates with optimistic, most-likely, and pessimistic values.
Why use it?
It helps replace a single guess with an estimate that shows likely effort and uncertainty.

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/zebbern/claude-code-guide/project-sizing-guide
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill project-sizing-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,104 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00086 $0.03104
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01552
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00621
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00310

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0ab796082c50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-sizing-guide 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/estimate_calculator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/project-sizing-guide/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Sizing Guide — Software Project Effort Estimation

Helps teams produce scientifically grounded effort estimates for software projects, based on three major methodologies: Three-Point Estimation (PERT), T-shirt Sizing, and Function Point Analysis (FPA). Outputs optimistic, most-likely, and pessimistic values along with risk intervals.

Quick Start

  1. User provides a requirements description → Agent identifies functional modules and breaks them into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  2. Select an estimation method → Choose the best-fit approach based on project stage and available information
  3. Estimate each item → Assign O/M/P (Optimistic / Most Likely / Pessimistic) values to every work package
  4. Aggregate and report → Generate an estimation report with risk analysis and confidence intervals

A calculation helper is available:

python3 scripts/estimate_calculator.py --method pert --tasks '[{"name":"User Login","O":2,"M":3,"P":8}]'

Method Selection Guide

Scenario Recommended Method Rationale
Early feasibility study, rough budgeting T-shirt Sizing Little information available; quickly align on order of magnitude
Sprint planning, iteration estimation Three-Point Estimation (PERT) Good granularity with confidence intervals
Contract bidding, large-project RFPs Function Point Analysis (FPA) Most rigorous; industry-comparable
Team has historical data PERT + historical calibration Combines empirical correction with data

Method 1: Three-Point Estimation (PERT)

Core Formulas

Metric Formula Meaning
Expected Value E (O + 4M + P) / 6 Weighted average effort
Standard Deviation σ (P − O) / 6 Estimation uncertainty
Variance V σ² Used to aggregate across tasks
Project Total Expected ΣE Sum of individual expected values
Project Total Std Dev √(ΣV) Square root of summed variances

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 291 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 0ab796082c50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-sizing-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,597 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 3,104 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 2026-08-30.

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