build-work-estimator

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.

Install

copilot plugin marketplace add Dewain27/AgentDudeSamples
copilot plugin install build-work-estimator@agentdude-samples

Try it

python scripts/version_check.py
python scripts/calibrate.py --print
python scripts/estimate.py --manifest assets/harbor-line-manifest.yaml --out e.json
python scripts/render_report.py e.json -o estimate --format both

A complete worked example is in assets/harbor-line-estimate.md.

Note

This is a sample. Its worked example uses Harbor Line Logistics, a fictional company; every figure in it is invented. It demonstrates how to build an estimator — recalibrate and reprice it for your organization before using it for real budgeting. Full documentation: samples/Build Work Estimator/.

Generated by build/build_plugin.py — edit the sample, not this folder.