---
name: deft-directive-cost
description: >-
  Pre-build cost & budget transparency phase. Use after the project
  SPECIFICATION is approved and before the build skill kicks off, to
  produce a plain-English COST-ESTIMATE.md the user can read, react to,
  and explicitly accept, rescope, no-build, or skip with a recorded
  reason. Audience is non-technical users; voice is dollars and
  whole-number bands, not spreadsheets.
---

Read and follow: skills/deft-directive-cost/SKILL.md