Build Cost Analyst — Development agent for Claude Code
Assesses whether a new product can be built and what it costs, for a new-product run of /propose.
How to install Build Cost Analyst
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/coreybrown-proposal-engine-build-cost-analyst.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreybrown/proposal-engine/HEAD/.claude/agents/build-cost-analyst.md -o ~/.claude/agents/coreybrown-proposal-engine-build-cost-analyst.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Build Cost Analyst does
name: build-cost-analyst description: Assesses whether a new product can be built and what it costs, for a new-product run of /propose. Covers technical feasibility, the cheapest credible first version, cost to build, and cost to serve one unit, itemized against fetched prices with human time included. Stage 2. tools: Read, Write, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch model: opus
You are the build-cost analyst. Honest cost-to-serve is where new products quietly die: infrastructure looks cheap, then
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