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fix(cli): rescale count-derived money when --max-instances truncates a row - #1846

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ApplyInstanceLimit truncated a recommendation's Count to fit the --max-instances budget but copied the struct wholesale, so every whole-row money figure survived at its full pre-cap value.

Reproduced by the new test against the pre-fix code: a row entering with Count=100, EstimatedSavings=600 left as Count=10, EstimatedSavings=600, a 10x overstatement for that row.

The figure flows into the run summary, the ConfirmPurchase prompt, the purchase report and the CSV, so an operator saw a capped run promising savings it cannot deliver. On a money path that is the wrong direction to be wrong in. Affects both the default and the --input-csv path, and is pre-existing rather than introduced by #1825.

The enumeration

The issue asked for every count-derived field to be enumerated before patching any one of them, since a report that is internally inconsistent is harder to notice than one uniformly wrong. The full Recommendation struct:

Rescaled (extensive, whole-row totals):

Field Why
EstimatedSavings savings for the full recommended quantity
CommitmentCost upfront for the full quantity
OnDemandCost on-demand cost for the full quantity
RecurringMonthlyCost monthly charge for the full quantity (*float64; nil stays nil)
SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment the SP's own money quantity

Deliberately not rescaled:

Field Why
SavingsPercentage, BreakEvenMonths ratios of two figures that scale together, so invariant
RecommendedCount a frozen record of the provider's pre-sizing proposal, deliberately preserved for audit
AverageInstancesUsedPerHour, UsageHistory observed demand; does not change with what we choose to buy
ExistingCoveragePct, ExistingCoverageKnown describes commitments already owned
identity/metadata fields, RawRecommendation not quantities

UpfrontCost and TotalCost, named as candidates in the issue, are fields of OfferingDetails, a sibling struct that is not embedded in Recommendation and is not reachable from this path. No change needed.

Two count-linear non-money fields are left alone and filed separately rather than silently ignored: ProjectedCoverage/ProjectedUtilization and DataWarehouseDetails.NumberOfNodes (#1845). Both are documented as out of scope on the helper.

How

Truncated rows are scaled by the discrete count ratio through common.ScaleRecommendationCosts, the helper ApplyCoverage, ApplyTargetCoverage and family-NU sizing already used. ApplyInstanceLimit was the one sizing path that mutated Count without it.

ScaleRecommendationCosts now also scales SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment. That line was duplicated at both of its existing call sites and missing at this new third one, which is precisely how the omission happened. An SP commitment is dollar-denominated, and ApplyCountOverride sets Count on SP recs without discriminating by commitment type, so an SP can reach the cap at a truncatable count; scaling its costs while leaving its commitment whole would produce an internally inconsistent row. The two existing call sites now delegate, which is provably equivalent (both previously overwrote Details with their own scaled copy after calling the helper, so the commitment is scaled exactly once either way).

rec.Count > remaining and remaining >= 1 together imply rec.Count >= 2, so the denominator is always positive and a non-positive Count can never enter the branch.

Interaction with the #1825 ranking key

savingsPerInstance divides EstimatedSavings by Count. Scaling both by the same ratio leaves the quotient exactly unchanged, so ranking behaviour is unaffected and the ordering still happens before the cap regardless.

The comment on sortBySavingsPerInstance cited #1830 as its justification ("a post-cap row's rate is inflated by exactly the amount the cap removed"). That reason evaporates with this fix, so it is corrected: the sort must still run first because the cap's selection consumes slice order, which has nothing to do with #1830.

Existing compensation

Searched for anything that compensates for the un-rescaled value and would now double-correct. Nothing does. sumPassedRecs, reporter.RenderSummary, calculateServiceStats and the CSV writer are all plain summations of the post-cap rows, so they are silently wrong today and become correct with no change. The only reference to the bug was the stale comment above.

One pre-existing test assertion (TestCSVCapKeepsHighestSavingsNotFileOrder) hardcoded the un-rescaled 100.00 on a row truncated 6 to 4. That assertion encoded the bug and is updated to the invariant.

Verification

Regression tests confirmed to fail against the pre-fix code, by assertion rather than panic:

TestApplyInstanceLimitRescalesTruncatedRow                 FAIL  600 vs expected 60 (the issue's 10x)
TestApplyInstanceLimitRescalesSavingsPlanHourlyCommitment  FAIL  500 vs expected 200
TestApplyInstanceLimitTotalMatchesSumOfKeptRows            FAIL  600 vs expected 566.67

Mutation-verified individually with -run '^ExactName$' -count=1, every failure by assertion:

Mutation Caught by
no rescale at all the 3 tests above
rescale every row, not just truncated LeavesUntruncatedRowsUntouched, TotalMatchesSumOfKeptRows
drop the non-positive-Count guard NonPositiveCountIsNotRescaled (observed +Inf/NaN)
coerce nil RecurringMonthlyCost to 0 PreservesNilRecurringMonthlyCost
drop SP HourlyCommitment scaling the SP test, and the pre-existing coverage tests, confirming the two simplified call sites genuinely delegate

Both directions are covered: truncated rows are rescaled, and untruncated rows keep their money including pointer fields.

Suites: cmd 859 passed, pkg 744 passed, providers/aws 1212 passed (separate modules in the go.work monorepo). gocyclo -over 10 clean at the pre-commit hook's exact scope. golangci-lint v2.10.1 (the CI-pinned version) reports 0 issues on the root module; the pkg module's 205 findings are identical to origin/main, verified by diffing the normalized finding sets.

Follow-ups filed

Closes #1830

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Savings and cost estimates now scale proportionally when recommendations are reduced by instance limits.
    • Savings Plan hourly commitments adjust consistently with retained recommendation counts.
    • Overall savings totals accurately reflect the recommendations shown.
    • Unaffected recommendations and missing cost values remain unchanged.
    • Invalid or incomplete recommendation details no longer cause scaling errors.
    • Recommendation data remains intact when scaling is applied.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified how recommendation counts, instance limits, and monetary values are handled during scaling.

…a row

ApplyInstanceLimit cut a recommendation's Count to fit the --max-instances
budget but copied the struct wholesale, so every whole-row money figure
survived at its full pre-cap value. A row entering with Count=100 and
EstimatedSavings=600 left as Count=10 with EstimatedSavings=600, a 10x
overstatement for that row.

The figure flows into the run summary, the purchase report and the CSV, so
an operator saw a capped run promising savings it cannot deliver. Affects
both the default and the --input-csv path.

Truncated rows are now scaled by the discrete count ratio via
common.ScaleRecommendationCosts, the helper every other sizing path
(ApplyCoverage, ApplyTargetCoverage, family-NU) already used. Only the
extensive fields scale: SavingsPercentage and BreakEvenMonths are ratios of
figures that scale together, RecommendedCount is a frozen record of the
provider's proposal, and the usage signals describe observed demand rather
than what we buy. A nil RecurringMonthlyCost stays nil, since absent is not
the same claim as zero. A non-positive Count can never enter the truncation
branch, so the ratio never divides by a zero or negative denominator.

ScaleRecommendationCosts now also scales SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment,
which was duplicated at its two existing call sites and missing at this new
third one. An SP commitment is dollar-denominated, and --override-count sets
Count on SP recs without discriminating by commitment type, so an SP can
reach the cap at a truncatable count; scaling its costs while leaving its
commitment whole would produce an internally inconsistent row.

Closes #1830
- Use math.IsNaN/math.IsInf instead of a hand-rolled float classifier that
  misreported large-but-finite values as infinite.
- Hoist the *SavingsPlanDetails assertion in applyTargetCoverageSP so the
  type is asserted once rather than three times. The zero-commitment and
  wrong-type guards are reordered, which is behaviour-equivalent: a non-SP
  Details reached the warning either way, and an SP with a non-positive
  commitment reached the skip either way.
- Enumerate the count-linear non-money fields ScaleRecommendationCosts
  deliberately leaves alone (ProjectedCoverage / ProjectedUtilization,
  DataWarehouseDetails.NumberOfNodes) so the docstring's completeness claim
  is honest.
- Drop the self-contradicting half of the sortBySavingsPerInstance comment:
  rate invariance makes a post-cap sort harmless, not useful, and the
  ordering requirement is unchanged.
…t unscaled

#1844 tracks ApplyCountOverride, which replaces Count without rescaling and
runs upstream of the cap. #1845 tracks the projection and node-count mirrors
that no sizing path re-derives.
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The change scales count-derived costs and Savings Plan hourly commitments when recommendations are truncated. It validates Savings Plan details, preserves pointer behavior, and adds tests for scaling, immutability, edge cases, typed-nil details, and aggregate totals.

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Recommendation scaling

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Cost scaling contract
pkg/common/types.go
ScaleRecommendationCosts documents its scaling rules and scales Savings Plan hourly commitments using copied details.
Instance-limit integration
cmd/helpers.go, cmd/multi_service_csv_cap.go, cmd/multi_service_max_instances_test.go
Savings Plan paths validate details and use ScaleRecommendationCosts. Instance-limit truncation scales monetary fields, while count overrides do not.
Scaling validation
cmd/helpers_instance_limit_rescale_test.go, cmd/helpers_typed_nil_details_test.go
Tests cover proportional truncation, unchanged rows, nullable costs, non-positive counts, Savings Plan commitments, typed-nil details, pointer immutability, and aggregate totals.

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- Around line 320-324: Handle typed-nil SavingsPlanDetails safely across
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Comment thread pkg/common/types.go Outdated
The misspell linter enforces American spelling and reddened the Lint Code
job on "neighbouring".
An interface holding (*SavingsPlanDetails)(nil) satisfies a type assertion
to *SavingsPlanDetails with ok == true and yields a nil pointer, so the
comma-ok alone was not a guard. Three sizing sites then dereferenced it:

- ScaleRecommendationCosts copied *details
- applyCoverage's SP branch discarded the pointer and called the helper,
  which panicked inside
- applyTargetCoverageSP read details.HourlyCommitment for its no-signal
  guard, before any nil check

A malformed recommendation must degrade and warn, not crash. Panicking
partway through a capped run leaves the operator with no report at all
rather than a degraded one, which is the opposite of what the rest of this
change is careful about on a money path.

The two cmd sites now take the existing warn-and-pass-through-unscaled path,
which is what a rec whose commitment cannot be scaled should do. The helper
leaves a nil Details exactly as it found it rather than substituting a
fabricated zero-value commitment, and still scales the cost fields, which do
not depend on Details. The warning text now says "missing or unexpected"
since a typed nil is neither an absent Details nor a wrong type.

Regression tests use an interface explicitly holding a typed nil; a plain
nil interface fails the assertion and takes a different path, so only the
typed form reproduces the crash. A sentinel test pins that Go semantic so
the guards cannot start passing vacuously.
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