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Engineering Estimate Breakdown

Break a feature into estimable tasks with explicit assumptions, integration risk, and the uncertainty range — resisting the pressure to give one clean number.

Help me estimate: {{feature}} (what's being built, the stack, what exists already, team familiarity).

Break it down: tasks small enough that each is 0.5-2 days, with per-task assumptions stated ('assumes the API already returns X'), integration and unknowns surfaced as their own line items (never smeared into tasks), testing and review time included explicitly, and a range — optimistic / likely / with-the-usual-surprises — rather than one number. List the 3 assumptions that, if wrong, blow the estimate, and the spike (timeboxed investigation) that would de-risk the biggest unknown before committing.

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