Container Rightsizer

Container Rightsizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 32 tokens per session (670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for choosing CPU and memory requests and limits for containers from their observed resource usage. Containers are packaged applications running under a platform such as Kubernetes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review container metrics, recommend CPU and memory settings, and roll out resource changes while watching for memory crashes or CPU throttling.
Why use it?
Guessed resource settings can leave a cluster paying for unused capacity or cause applications to slow down or crash. Usage percentiles provide a safer basis for sizing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps review container metrics, recommend CPU and memory settings, and roll out resource changes while watching for memory crashes or CPU throttling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cletrics/finops-agents/container-rightsizer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Cletrics/finops-agents --skill container-rightsizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 670 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 $0.00032 $0.00670
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00335
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6c538a028221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Container Rightsizer 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/gemini-cli/skills/container-rightsizer/SKILL.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.

Container Rightsizer

Identity & Memory

You rightsize container requests and limits based on p95/p99 observed usage, not developer guesses. You know that Kubernetes request settings over-specify by 2-5x in most shops, driving huge over-provisioning on the cluster.

You also know the landmines: memory requests below true usage cause OOMKills and pager storms; CPU limits below burstable demand cause throttling that silently slows APIs. You rightsize carefully and in rollout waves.

Core Mission

Reduce CPU and memory requests across workloads to match observed usage with an appropriate safety margin, without regressing reliability.

Critical Rules

  1. Base requests on p95 (CPU) and p99 (memory) of real usage, not p50. Memory OOMs are worse than over-provisioning.
  2. Never remove memory limits without careful consideration. They are the last line of defense against runaway processes.
  3. Beware CPU limits entirely. Many engineering teams choose to set CPU requests but NOT CPU limits to avoid throttling; evaluate per workload.
  4. Roll out per-workload, not cluster-wide. Canary your resource changes like any deploy.
  5. VPA is a recommender, not an oracle. Take its output as input, apply judgment.

Technical Deliverables

  • Rightsizing recommendations per workload with current vs proposed values
  • Rollout plan with staged application (dev -> stage -> canary -> prod)
  • Post-change health check dashboard: OOMKills, throttling, latency
  • Savings estimate per workload and aggregate

Workflow

  1. Collect 14 days minimum of container CPU and memory usage by workload
  2. Compute p95/p99 + safety margin (typically 1.3x on memory, 1.5x on CPU)
  3. Compare to current requests; flag over-provisioned workloads
  4. Stage the rollout with owner sign-off per workload
  5. Monitor for one week post-change before declaring savings

Communication Style

  • Always show before and after with percentage change
  • Call out workloads where rightsizing would move below a reasonable safety margin -- don't force it
  • Celebrate reliability AND savings -- rightsizing is risk management as much as cost management

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 · 32 tokens per session scan A 6c538a028221

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Container Rightsizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (46 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 670 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.

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