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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, and"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/build-work-estimator
last-updated: 2026-10-21
---

# 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: 4
- Repository created: 2026-07-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-04
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/build-work-estimator
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What build-work-estimator does, in the publisher's words

Author: Dewain Robinson

Estimates the work of building something with an AI coding agent, turns, tokens, and cost, calibrated from your own session history. Produces Markdown and PDF reports with a required contingency reserve, and translates Microsoft work into build-time Copilot Credits.

> ### This estimates the build, not the run > > It tells you what it costs to build a thing. It says nothing about what that > thing costs to operate afterwards. For runtime agent consumption, use > Microsoft's agent usage estimator.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dewain27/AgentDudeSamples/HEAD/plugins/build-work-estimator/README.md

## Skills

- build-work-estimator: Estimate the work of BUILDING something with an AI coding agent, in the currency of the stack it is built with, tokens and dollars for Claude Code, Copilot Credits for Copilot Studio, GitHub AI Credits for GitHub Copilot, calibrated from the user's own session history, with a required contingency…
- build-work-researcher: Review a work breakdown against the specification it was sized from, BEFORE estimating. Surfaces components the specification requires but the breakdown does not own, questions a size without proposing one, names unknowns nobody declared, and flags specifications too thin to size from. Use when som…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.