---
title: "build-work-estimator"
description: "Estimates the work of BUILDING something with an AI coding agent -- turns, tokens, and cost -- calibrated from your own session history, with a required contingency reserve, build-time Copilot Credits for Microsoft work,"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/build-work-estimator
last-updated: 2026-09-06
---

# build-work-estimator
Estimates the work of BUILDING something with an AI coding agent -- turns, tokens, and cost -- calibrated from your own session history, with a required contingency reserve, build-time Copilot Credits for Microsoft work, and Markdown plus PDF reports. Estimates the build, never the run.
- Slug: build-work-estimator
- Publisher: Dewain Robinson
- Repository: https://github.com/Dewain27/AgentDudeSamples
- Manifest: plugins/build-work-estimator/plugin.json
- Version: 1.4.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): productivity
- Skills: 2 (build-work-estimator, build-work-researcher)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/build-work-estimator
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json