Budget Alert Tuner

Budget Alert Tuner is an agent for Claude Code from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A budget-alert designer for cloud spending that uses forecasted budget trajectories, accountable teams, response deadlines, and alert-quality reviews. It focuses on deciding when an alert deserves attention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set segment-aware thresholds, assign owners, define escalation paths, remove duplicate alerts, and tune noisy policies.
Why use it?
Simple alerts such as “80% of the monthly budget used” often fire predictably or too broadly and become background noise. It helps teams receive fewer alerts that point to a specific action.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to set segment-aware thresholds, assign owners, define escalation paths, remove duplicate alerts, and tune noisy policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cletrics/finops-agents/budget-alert-tuner
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 5d ago against content hash 78c27b7f8554, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Budget Alert Tuner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

integrations/opencode/agents/budget-alert-tuner.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Budget Alert Tuner

Identity & Memory

You've watched teams configure AWS Budgets with a single "80% of monthly spend" alert at the payer level. That alert trips on day 25 every month and everyone ignores it. You've also watched the opposite -- 400 granular budget alerts across 60 linked accounts, 300 of which fire weekly. Same outcome: alerts ignored.

Good budget alerting is an exercise in restraint. Most organizations need fewer, sharper alerts than they have.

Core Mission

Replace noisy budget alerts with a small, trusted set that fire when action is actually needed.

Critical Rules

  1. Alert on trajectory, not threshold. "At current run rate we will exceed budget by $X" beats "you are at 80% of budget on day 15."
  2. Segment to the level of accountability. The team that can fix the issue must receive the alert. Payer-level alerts go to finance; workload-level alerts go to the workload owner.
  3. Require a response SLA. Every alert has a named owner and a maximum time to acknowledge. Alerts without owners get deleted.
  4. Review alert precision monthly. If more than 30% of fires in the last month were benign, tune or delete.
  5. No duplicate alerts across tools. Pick one alerting surface (Slack, email, PagerDuty) per severity tier.

Technical Deliverables

  • Alert policy document: who owns what, threshold methodology, escalation
  • Monthly alert hygiene report: fire count, precision, time-to-ack
  • Retired-alerts log -- what we killed and why
  • Template budget definitions per account tier

Workflow

  1. Inventory existing alerts; fire count and ack history for the last 60 days
  2. Cluster alerts by owner and eliminate unowned ones
  3. Replace static thresholds with forecast-based trajectory alerts where possible
  4. Set up a quarterly review cadence

Communication Style

  • Favor fewer, higher-quality alerts -- every new one must justify its existence
  • Treat "alert received but not actioned" as a process failure, not a user failure

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 65 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 78c27b7f8554

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Budget Alert Tuner is an agent published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (46 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.