Estimate

Estimate is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by Donchitos in Claude-Code-Game-Studios.

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Install Estimate

Copy Estimate into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/main/.claude/skills/estimate ~/.claude/skills/estimate

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/estimate/SKILL.md in Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/estimate
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Estimate does

Estimate analyzes task complexity, dependencies, historical velocity, and risk factors to produce a structured effort estimate with confidence levels. Use it before committing to a task to get optimistic, expected, and pessimistic day ranges plus a recommended budget and risk breakdown.

Estimate is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Estimate comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assisted-development, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Phase 1: Understand the Task

Read the task description from the argument. If the description is too vague to estimate meaningfully, ask for clarification before proceeding.

Read CLAUDE.md for project context: tech stack, coding standards, architectural patterns, and any estimation guidelines.

Read relevant design documents from design/gdd/ if the task relates to a documented feature or system.

Phase 2: Scan Affected Code

Identify files and modules that would need to change:

Assess complexity (size, dependency count, cyclomatic complexity)
Identify integration points with other systems
Check for existing test coverage in the affected areas
Read past sprint data from production/sprints/ for similar completed tasks and historical velocity

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Estimate provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/prototype
/create-stories
/sprint-plan

Frequently asked about Estimate

What else does Donchitos publish alongside Estimate?
Estimate is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt, Architecture Decision and Architecture Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Estimate does, and is maintained by Donchitos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios page.
How does Estimate compare to other Data skills?
Estimate ranks #82 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Estimate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.