estimating-and-contingency
Produces a cost or effort estimate someone can defend — decomposing the work, choosing between analogous, parametric and bottom-up methods, documenting the basis and its assumptions, expressing confidence as a range, and sizing contingency and management reserve separately.
Install / Use
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill estimating-and-contingencyInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
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Our assessment of estimating-and-contingency
estimating-and-contingency scores 86/100 on our quality scale, 515th of 923 Content & Media skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 1,658 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 12 days ago, so estimating-and-contingency is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
estimating-and-contingency compared with similar skills
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| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| estimating-and-contingency (this skill)by cbrock84 | 86 | 1.7k | 12d ago | SKILL.md |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install estimating-and-contingency?
- Run
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill estimating-and-contingency. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does estimating-and-contingency work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is estimating-and-contingency safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is estimating-and-contingency still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 12 days ago, so estimating-and-contingency is actively maintained.
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