estimates

Name: estimates
Author: wycats

Use **relative sizing** to communicate effort:

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Instruction file imported from wycats/exo2 (.github/instructions/estimates.instructions.md). Copyright stays with the author.

Effort & Sequencing

Estimating Effort

Use relative sizing to communicate effort:

S (Small): Trivial change, single location
M (Medium): Moderate complexity, few surfaces
L (Large): Significant work, multiple components
XL (Extra Large): Major undertaking, cross-cutting

Planning Multiple Tasks

When a plan has more than a few tasks, analyze dependencies:

What blocks what?
What can run in parallel?
Where is the critical path?

These two dimensions—size and sequence—are sufficient for actionable planning.

Why This Framing

Temporal estimates (hours/days/weeks) tend to drift under revision and consume attention better spent on structural relationships. Relative sizing stays stable across edits; dependency analysis reveals the critical path.

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/wycats-exo2-estimates-instructions/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

wycats-exo2-estimates-instructions.ocm.jsonjson

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Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/wycats-exo2-estimates-instructions/manifest?version=1.0.0