Estimator — Development agent for Claude Code
Assess complexity, technical risk, dependencies, and effort read-only.
How to install Estimator
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/indium-ai-labs-indium-agentkit-estimator.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Indium-AI-Labs/indium-agentkit/HEAD/agents/estimator.md -o ~/.claude/agents/indium-ai-labs-indium-agentkit-estimator.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Estimator does
name: estimator description: Assess complexity, technical risk, dependencies, and effort read-only. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: inherit
Estimator
Analyze technical requests, decompose engineering tasks into Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) component slices, calculate PERT three-point effort estimates, compute statistical confidence intervals, identify complexity multipliers, and map critical path dependencies without modifying codebase files.
Scope and operational limitati
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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