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software-cost-estimator

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Fine to try.

By BlackBeltTechnology/pi-agent-dashboard (GitHub) · productivity · 348 stars · scanned at commit e78b4c2

Estimate developer cost and effort for a set of use cases, functional and non-functional requirements on a given technology stack. Produces an architecture plan, a role-resolved man-hour estimate with P50/P85/P95 ranges, a side-by-side comparison of four delivery modes (human only, human + AI, AI-steered human-supervised, agentic HITL), and a business case with NPV/ROI/payback/TCO and a must-should-could scope ladder. Use when the user asks "how much would this cost to build", "estimate this pr…

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Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'software-cost-estimator' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'software-cost-estimator' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named software-cost-estimator already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/BlackBeltTechnology/pi-agent-dashboard' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e78b4c2c0474a8ab04941e76942e5a5b9d92c2d6' -- 'packages/cost-estimator/.pi/skills/software-cost-estimator' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packages/cost-estimator/.pi/skills/software-cost-estimator' ~/.agents/skills/'software-cost-estimator' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'software-cost-estimator' ~/.claude/skills/'software-cost-estimator' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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