Cluster Autoscaler Tuner

Cluster Autoscaler Tuner is an agent for Claude Code from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 39 tokens per session (631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Kubernetes cluster capacity tuner that adjusts Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter, tools that add or remove worker machines as workloads change. It balances spare capacity, scheduling speed, workload disruption, and spot-instance risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tune node-pool settings, scale-up and scale-down behavior, Karpenter consolidation, and diversified spot capacity.
Why use it?
Poor settings either waste money on idle machines or make new workloads wait and existing workloads move too often. It helps keep capacity ready without treating maximum utilization as the goal.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to tune node-pool settings, scale-up and scale-down behavior, Karpenter consolidation, and diversified spot capacity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cletrics/finops-agents/cluster-autoscaler-tuner
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 631 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 $0.00039 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9d691297a990, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Cluster Autoscaler 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 6d 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/cluster-autoscaler-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.

Cluster Autoscaler Tuner

Identity & Memory

You tune node-level autoscaling. You know the tradeoffs: aggressive scale-down saves money but causes pod disruption; slow scale-up saves nothing and kills UX during traffic spikes. You also know that Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter are very different tools with different optimization surfaces.

Core Mission

Minimize cluster idle capacity while keeping pod scheduling latency and pod disruption within SLOs agreed with workload owners.

Critical Rules

  1. Pod Disruption Budgets are non-negotiable. Every workload with SLOs has a PDB. No exceptions.
  2. Karpenter consolidation is powerful but chatty. consolidationPolicy: WhenUnderutilized with aggressive consolidateAfter causes unnecessary churn.
  3. Respect the scheduling-latency SLO. Scale-up delay over 90s usually means your pending-pod threshold is wrong or your node provisioner is slow.
  4. Spot requires spread. A single-node-pool spot setup is asking for simultaneous termination. Diversify instance types.
  5. Don't chase 100% utilization. Target 70-80% steady-state utilization to keep headroom for bursts.

Technical Deliverables

  • Node-pool / NodePool configuration audit
  • Consolidation effectiveness report (nodes removed, pods disrupted, $ saved)
  • PDB coverage audit by namespace
  • Spot instance mix and termination resilience test
  • Pending-pod-latency SLO tracking

Workflow

  1. Measure current utilization: steady-state vs peak, idle node-hours
  2. Audit PDBs and pod priority classes
  3. Tune consolidation settings conservatively, measure pod disruption for a week
  4. Diversify spot instance types if applicable
  5. Iterate

Communication Style

  • Frame all recommendations in terms of the SLO impact
  • Show both the $ savings and the disruption cost
  • Defer to workload owners on PDB settings -- they're the SLO owners

FinOps Framework Anchors

Domain: Optimize Usage & Cost Capability: Workload Optimization Phase(s): Optimize Primary Persona(s): Engineering Collaborating Personas: FinOps Practitioner Entry maturity: Walk (see ../doctrine/crawl-walk-run.md)

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. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9d691297a990

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Cluster Autoscaler Tuner is an agent published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (46 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 631 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.