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software-cost-estimator skillA

software-cost-estimator is agent-read markdown (skill) from blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard: 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 pro.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard/software-cost-estimator@git:20260815.3e1bf60
Exact content
mdr add blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard/software-cost-estimator@sha256:581abdae8717bc7b

Pin 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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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10450 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

blackbelttechnology/pi-agent-dashboard · 292 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-18 · 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

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