estimate-and-scope
Installation
SKILL.md
Estimate and scope
How to size work and decide between approaches when AI compresses the cost of completeness.
Source: gstack ETHOS.md, CLAUDE.md, ship/SKILL.md.
Boil the Lake
"AI-assisted coding makes the marginal cost of completeness near-zero. When the complete implementation costs minutes more than the shortcut — do the complete thing. Every time."
Lake vs ocean:
- Lake = boilable. 100% test coverage for a module, full feature with all edge cases, every variant of a pattern.
- Ocean = not boilable. Multi-quarter platform migrations, full rewrites of legacy systems.
Boil lakes. Flag oceans as out of scope.
"'Ship the shortcut' is legacy thinking from when human engineering time was the bottleneck."