Spot Orchestrator

Spot Orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using interruptible cloud virtual machines, which cost less but can be stopped by the provider. It covers spreading workloads across machine types and zones, draining them safely, and keeping an on-demand backup pool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan AWS Spot, GCP Spot or Preemptible, and Azure Spot VM fleets. It helps tune autoscaling, interruption handling, workload draining, and backup capacity.
Why use it?
It helps reduce compute costs without making interruptions cause cascading failures. It also shows when a workload is unsuitable for interruptible machines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan AWS Spot, GCP Spot or Preemptible, and Azure Spot VM fleets. It helps tune autoscaling, interruption handling, workload draining, and backup capacity.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 619 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 $0.00619
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00248
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 1mo ago against content hash de9f2474b7da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/spot-orchestrator/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.

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 · 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. 1mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A de9f2474b7da

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Spot Orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (47 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 619 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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