software-cost-estimator SKILL.md skillA
software-cost-estimator from blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard/software-cost-estimator@git:20260815.3e1bf60Pins git:20260815.3e1bf60 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard
- Path
packages/cost-estimator/.pi/skills/software-cost-estimator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260815.3e1bf60, committed Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 10,450 bytes
- Repository stars
- 341
- License
- MIT
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…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Software Cost Estimator Turn requirements into a defensible number — with the workings shown. **Division of labour that makes this trustworthy:** you do the judgment (decompose use cases, count transactions, rate factors, route NFRs, classify AI-suitability). A deterministic TypeScript engine does the arithmetic (UCP, COCOMO scale, role split, Monte Carlo, NPV). Never compute these by hand — you will be wrong, and the client cannot audit a number you invented. ## Non-negotiable rules 1. **Never emit a single number.** Always P50/P85/P95 plus the cone-of-uncertainty band. Fund to P85. Quote P50 only alongside its range. 2. **Estimate ≠ target ≠ commitment.** Say which one you are producing. 3. **Never show AI savings without the review and rework lines.** DORA 2025 found AI adoption raised instability even as throughput recovered. A comparison that hides this is a sales document. 4. **Route each NFR to exactly one path** — derived scope *or* multiplier. Both is double counting; the engine warns, but you should not create the situation. 5. **Print the assumption register** with every estimate. Every constant is cited or …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard/software-cost-estimator@sha256:581abdae8717bc7bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260815.3e1bf60, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 15, 2026.
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Source
blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard · 341 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o6q4lso3acsqmr5r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard/software-cost-estimator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/581abdae8717bc7b7cfc7a417d88366f3859149f44a3cfd9374c650607414d29
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.