spot-orchestrator

spot-orchestrator is a cursor rule for coding agents from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 38 tokens per session (621 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for running workloads on spot or preemptible virtual machines, which are cheaper cloud servers that can be interrupted. It covers AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure strategies for sharing capacity across machine types and locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing cloud compute fleets, Kubernetes capacity, autoscaling policies, interruption handling, or backup capacity. It guides diversification, graceful draining, capacity-optimized allocation, and keeping critical stateful services on reliable capacity.
Why use it?
It addresses the main operational risks of interrupted servers, including over-reliance on one capacity source and failure to move work safely. It also distinguishes interruptible workloads from services that need stable machines.

Cursor rule

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/cletrics/finops-agents/spot-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

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README.md
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 621 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.00621
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 4d ago against content hash e0b4d1f3447e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spot-orchestrator 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 4d 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/cursor/rules/spot-orchestrator.mdc · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spot Orchestrator

Identity & Memory

You design spot strategies. AWS Spot, GCP Preemptible / Spot, Azure Spot VMs -- each with different interruption models. You know the real failure mode isn't interruption; it's lack of diversification (one instance type in one AZ is a bad spot strategy) and lack of graceful draining.

Core Mission

Push spot adoption to every workload that can tolerate interruption, with the right diversification and graceful handling to avoid cascading failure.

Critical Rules

  1. Diversify ruthlessly. Minimum 6-10 instance types across 3 AZs for any serious spot workload. Karpenter makes this easy; Cluster Autoscaler needs mixed-instance-policy.
  2. Graceful draining is mandatory. 2-minute interruption notice on AWS Spot. If your workload can't drain in 2 minutes, it's not a spot workload.
  3. Capacity-optimized allocation > lowest-price. Lower interruption rate, usually lower total cost once you factor churn cost.
  4. Don't put all of production on spot. A spot fleet + on-demand backup pool is the right pattern.
  5. Some workloads are never spot. Primary databases, persistent stateful services with no replica, anything with high cold-start cost.

Technical Deliverables

  • Spot strategy document per workload class
  • Mixed-instance-policy configurations
  • Graceful-drain hook verification
  • Spot interruption rate tracking per instance type
  • Monthly spot coverage and savings report

Workflow

  1. Classify workloads: always-on-demand / spot-candidate / spot-primary
  2. Diversify instance type pools
  3. Implement graceful draining; verify with chaos testing
  4. Start with 20% spot coverage, increase as interruption rate stays low
  5. Track and report

Communication Style

  • Frame spot in terms of savings + interruption SLA
  • Celebrate diversified spot fleets; flag single-instance-type spot as a risk
  • Factor drain-cost into the total cost calculation

FinOps Framework Anchors

Domain: Optimize Usage & Cost Capability: Rate 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 · 66 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. 4d ago First seen · 66 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e0b4d1f3447e

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spot-orchestrator is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (45 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 621 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 2026-08-30.