cost-estimation skillA
cost-estimation is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when the user wants to estimate or predict the cost, token usage, or time of a task BEFORE it runs — "how much will this feature cost to build", "estimate the tokens for this spec", "what will this slice cost", "predict the agent-compute time before I commit" — produces a token + time estimate as a range with disclosed confidence, adding a dollar figure only when an observability/costs snapshot grounds it. The prospective sibling of cost-tracking, which records actual spend after the fact..
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What the file says
# Cost Estimation Estimate, *before* work runs, the token usage and time a task will consume flowing through the orchestrator pipeline — and a dollar cost **only when observed actuals exist to ground it**. This is the **prospective** counterpart to the **retrospective** `cost-tracking` skill. `cost-tracking` *records* what was spent into `observability/costs/YYYY-MM-DD-costs.md`; this skill *reads* those same snapshots as its $/token ground and *predicts* what a task will spend. The two are siblings — a reader who finds one should find the other (see [Sibling relationship](#sibling-relationship-to-cost-tracking)). The day-one deliverable is a **token + time estimate**. Both axes are fully groundable from `MODEL_ROUTING.md` today, so they are the honest first-version value of this capability. The dollar figure is an **actuals-gated enhancement** — present and grounded only when an `observability/costs/` snapshot supplies a usable $/token rate, otherwise omitted with an explicit disclosure (never a forced list-price guess). This skill is **methodology and a format contract**. It describes how an estimate is derived and what an estimate record must contain. It does not …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cost-estimation@git:20260615.89f6ae8mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cost-estimation@sha256:7dbd433125e5fac7Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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| git:20260615.89f6ae8 latest | 2026-06-15 | 89f6ae8 | 21,663 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260614.0b54ad6 | 2026-06-14 | 0b54ad6 | 20,330 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.4978c71 | 2026-06-12 | 4978c71 | 19,522 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.f7e212d | 2026-06-11 | f7e212d | 17,446 B | A | view |
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
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