spotinfo: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

spotinfo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from alexei-led/spotinfo. It costs 11,588 tokens per session, scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

Project guidance for spotinfo, a Go command-line tool and MCP server for browsing and ranking discounted temporary cloud-computing machines on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or using the list and recommend commands, handling cloud price snapshots and live data, or working with the tool’s shared cloud-provider code.
Why use it?
It explains the difference between browsing available machines and recommending one, including which inputs each command requires and how results work without cloud credentials.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is alexei-led/spotinfo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on spotinfo itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything spotinfo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alexei-led/spotinfo. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexei-led/spotinfo/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexei-led/spotinfo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan C 2 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 $0.11588 $0.11588
Opus 5 $0.05794 $0.05794
Sonnet 5 $0.02318 $0.02318
Haiku 4.5 $0.01159 $0.01159

Measured 7d ago against content hash a03a960f240b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

spotinfo CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 2 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 7d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

spotinfo: failed to get spot savings: aws candidate acquisition: score enrichment failed: region us-east-1: spot placement scores unavailable: requires AWS credentials and the ec2:GetSpotPlacementScores permission: … dia

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `make check-deps` - Verify system has required dependencies (wget)
CLAUDE.md · 768 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 768 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

spotinfo is a Go CLI tool and MCP server for exploring Spot machine prices across AWS, GCP and Azure. Every cloud ships a reviewed snapshot compiled into the binary, so every cloud answers with no credentials; each also has a live path that degrades back to the snapshot rather than failing.

Two commands, both cloud-neutral, both served by the same provider-neutral seam (internal/cloud).

  • spotinfo list — filter and show every match, with a risk column. Requires nothing and answers "what is there".
  • spotinfo recommend — rank the top N against a stated requirement. Requires --architecture, --min-vcpu and --min-memory-gib, and answers "what should I run".

They share a vocabulary, not a purpose. Folding them would force three required flags onto a browse command.

Bare spotinfo prints help and exits 1 (no command given; run "spotinfo list" to browse or "spotinfo recommend" to rank) — except when a mode flag is set: --mcp and --version are dispatched from the root Action and keep working. Only six flags are global: --mcp, --debug, --quiet, --json-log, --help/-h and --version/-v. Every other flag belongs to a subcommand and must follow it.

AWS is the only cloud that publishes a redistributable interruption figure, so GCP and Azure report risk.status: "unavailable" — never a zero, never a low bucket — and serve only the risk-free cost workload. GCP can fetch a per-project preemption rate with --live-risk — see the note under Data Sources; it is visible but never filterable.

The flag vocabulary

One name per concept, decided in cmd/spotinfo/vocabulary.go and nowhere else. That file is the single source: the flag constants, the unified defaults, the retired-name map and the CLI-to-MCP derivation rule. cmd/spotinfo/vocabulary_test.go walks the command tree built by newSpotinfoApp() and asserts each command declares exactly the entries marked for it, so adding a flag anywhere else fails a test rather than shipping a second name for one idea.

Read the full file on GitHub · 768 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. 7d ago First seen · 768 lines · 11,588 tokens per session scan C a03a960f240b

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spotinfo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alexei-led/spotinfo (163 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11,588 tokens to every session, about $0.0579 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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