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Estimate Effort — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Produce a grounded effort and complexity estimate for a task by exploring the codebase read-only.

How to install Estimate Effort

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/imtiazrayhan-agentscamp-library-estimate-effort/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/imtiazrayhan-agentscamp-library-estimate-effort && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imtiazrayhan/agentscamp-library/HEAD/commands/estimate-effort.md -o ~/.claude/skills/imtiazrayhan-agentscamp-library-estimate-effort/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Estimate Effort does

description: "Produce a grounded effort and complexity estimate for a task by exploring the codebase read-only." argument-hint: "" allowed-tools: "Read, Grep, Glob"

Estimate the effort to do the task in `$ARGUMENTS` by grounding it in the real codebase, not in vibes. This is an analysis pass only — read to understand, then deliver an estimate. Do not edit, run, or create anything.

Scope

Treat `$ARGUMENTS` as the task to size — a feature, a refactor, a m

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