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fix(cli): rescale count-derived money when --override-count replaces a row's count - #1847

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ApplyCountOverride replaced a recommendation's Count and copied the rest of the struct wholesale, so every quantity derived from that count kept the value it had for the count the provider proposed. A row entering with Count=100, EstimatedSavings=600 left as count=5 savings=600, a twentyfold overstatement. It runs upstream of --max-instances on both the default and the --input-csv path, so the cap's own rescale then computed its ratio against a corrupted base and preserved the error faithfully into the run summary, the purchase report, the CSV and the confirmation prompt.

What changed

The four count-derived money fields now scale by the override ratio through common.ScaleRecommendationCosts, the same helper ApplyInstanceLimit and the coverage paths already use, rather than a second implementation of the same arithmetic. RecurringMonthlyCost is a *float64 and a nil stays nil. A row with a non-positive Count is left alone: there is no denominator to form a ratio from, and setting Count without scaling would reintroduce the same defect.

Field enumeration, re-derived against current main

Field Rescaled Why
EstimatedSavings yes whole-row total
CommitmentCost yes whole-row total
OnDemandCost yes whole-row total
RecurringMonthlyCost yes, nil stays nil whole-row total; nil means "no provider breakdown" and renders as an em dash, not $0
SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment n/a SP rows are exempt, see below
SavingsPercentage no intensive; a ratio of two figures that scale together
BreakEvenMonths no intensive
RecommendedCount no frozen record of the provider's proposal; it is what the extrapolation boundary is measured against
AverageInstancesUsedPerHour, RecommendedUtilization, ExistingCoveragePct, UsageHistory no observed demand, unchanged by what we choose to buy
ProjectedCoverage / ProjectedUtilization no count-linear but not re-derived, exactly as after a cap. Tracked by #1845, deliberately not folded in here
DataWarehouseDetails.NumberOfNodes no a Redshift count mirror set at parse time. Verified not read on the purchase path: providers/aws/services/redshift/client.go:191 builds NodeCount from rec.Count. Also #1845

Savings Plans are exempt, Count included

Routing SPs through the helper would have scaled SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment by an instance count, and that field is what savingsplans/client.go:232 actually buys, so --override-count 10 would have committed ten times the dollars. An SP commitment is priced in dollars per hour rather than in instances, the parser pins its Count at 1 (parser_sp.go:382), and the flag is documented as an override for "all selected RIs". Skipping also stops an SP consuming N units of the --max-instances budget for what is one commitment.

Checked the other commitment types rather than assuming: GCP CUD Count is vCPUs and drives the insert request, Azure RI is quantity-based. Both are count-denominated and scale correctly. AWS SP is the only dollar-denominated case, and common.IsSavingsPlan is the predicate applyCoverage already uses for exactly this distinction.

The scale-up judgement call

The issue left this open, so to state the reasoning explicitly. Unit prices are linear with no volume tiering, so CommitmentCost stays true at any quantity. Savings only accrue on hours a matching instance actually runs, so units beyond the observed demand are billed and may save nothing, which makes an extrapolated savings figure a number nobody measured.

Not scaling is not the safer answer. It reports the money of a different quantity, and it understates what the run will be charged, which is the more dangerous direction on a money path. Capping savings while scaling costs was rejected: it needs bespoke arithmetic outside the shared helper, and it yields an internally inconsistent row where EstimatedSavings no longer relates to OnDemandCost - CommitmentCost and SavingsPercentage is stale. Refusing outright was rejected as too strong for a documented flag whose whole purpose is to override the provider.

So rows are scaled and the extrapolation is disclosed on stdout. The boundary is the provider's own proposal (RecommendedCount) where it recorded one, falling back to the row's current count where it did not (RecommendedCount is populated only on the AWS RI path). That distinction matters: a row sized down to 80 by --coverage from a proposal of 100 is still inside what the provider's figures cover, so overriding back up to 100 is interpolation and stays quiet. Skipped SPs and skipped non-positive rows are named too, so an operator who got a differently sized run than they asked for is told which rows the flag could not size.

Ordering interaction with --max-instances

The override runs before the run-wide cap on both paths (applyCoverageAndOverrides for the default path, runToolFromCSV before scoreAndLimitCSVRecs for --input-csv). No path applies it after the cap. There is no double-scaling: the two ratios compose to (remaining/N) * (N/orig) = remaining/orig, a single net ratio against the provider's figures, and the override now corrects the base before the cap derives its own ratio from it. TestApplyCountOverrideThenInstanceLimitScalesOnce pins this against an independently computed expectation.

A side effect worth naming: --input-csv ranks rows by savings-per-instance before the cap. Pre-fix, the override flattened every row's count so that ranking degenerated to raw EstimatedSavings; post-fix the per-instance rate is invariant under the override, so the cap keeps the genuinely best rows.

Verification

Eight of the nine new tests fail pre-fix, none by panic, and the pre-existing TestApplyCountOverride table test passes unchanged on both sides. Each was mutation-verified individually against the committed fix, every failure again by assertion:

Mutation Fails
drop the rescale down direction, up direction, caller aliasing, composition
remove the SP exemption SP untouched, skip reporting
remove the non-positive guard non-positive guard (+Inf), skip reporting
make the boundary ignore RecommendedCount extrapolation disclosure fires on interpolation
coerce nil monthly cost to zero Expected nil, but got a pointer

TestApplyCountOverridePreservesNilRecurringMonthlyCost is the one that passes pre-fix, being a directional guard against the fix fabricating a zero rather than a regression test, stated so the coverage is not overread.

Caller aliasing is asserted as #1830 did: reportInstanceLimit diffs the pre-cap slice against the post-cap one, so a shared pointer target would corrupt drop reporting.

go test ./cmd/ 855 passed, ./pkg/... 744 passed, all six workspace modules build, -race clean on the new tests, golangci-lint run at the CI pin v2.10.1 reports 0 issues (exit 0), gocyclo -over 10 -ignore "_test\.go" . clean.

Also in this change

The justification comment on TestApplyInstanceLimitRescalesSavingsPlanHourlyCommitment (#1830) cited --override-count as the route by which an SP reaches the cap at a count above 1. That route no longer exists after this change, so it is corrected to the live one: the --input-csv path builds Service straight from the CSV column, so a file naming a savingsplans service at a count above the budget still reaches that branch.

Closes #1844

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Enhancements

    • --override-count now proportionally adjusts costs and savings for count-based recommendations.
    • Savings Plans and recommendations with non-positive counts remain unchanged.
    • Reports skipped overrides and requests exceeding available provider evidence.
    • Preserves utilization, coverage, and other intensive metrics.
    • Works consistently with instance-limit adjustments.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI guidance covering override behavior, exceptions, reporting, and option ordering.

…a row's count (#1844)

ApplyCountOverride replaced a recommendation's Count and copied the rest of
the struct wholesale, so every quantity derived from that count kept the value
it had for the count the provider proposed. A row entering with Count=100 and
EstimatedSavings=600 left as count=5 savings=600, a twentyfold overstatement.
It runs upstream of --max-instances on both the default and the --input-csv
path, so the cap's own rescale then computed its ratio against a corrupted
base and preserved the error faithfully into the run summary, the purchase
report, the CSV and the confirmation prompt.

The four count-derived money fields now scale by the override ratio through
common.ScaleRecommendationCosts, the same helper ApplyInstanceLimit and the
coverage paths already use, rather than a second implementation of the same
arithmetic. RecurringMonthlyCost is a *float64 and a nil stays nil. A row with
a non-positive Count is left alone: there is no denominator to form a ratio
from, and setting Count without scaling would reintroduce the same defect.
Chaining the override with the cap now composes two ratios into a single net
ratio against the provider's figures instead of scaling a wrong base.

Savings Plans are exempted, Count included. Routing them through the helper
would have scaled SavingsPlanDetails.HourlyCommitment by an instance count,
and that field is what the SP purchase call actually buys, so --override-count
10 would have committed ten times the dollars. An SP commitment is priced in
dollars per hour rather than in instances, its Count is a placeholder the
parser pins at 1, and the flag is documented as an override for the selected
RIs. Skipping also stops an SP consuming N units of the --max-instances budget
for what is one commitment.

On the scale-up direction the issue left open: unit prices are linear, so
CommitmentCost stays true at any quantity, but savings only accrue on hours a
matching instance actually runs, so units beyond the observed demand are
billed and may save nothing. Not scaling is not the safer answer, it reports
the money of a different quantity and understates what will be charged.
Rows are therefore scaled and the extrapolation is named on stdout, against
RecommendedCount where the provider recorded one and the row's own count
otherwise. Skipped SPs and skipped non-positive rows are named too.

Eight of the nine new tests fail pre-fix, none by panic, and the pre-existing
table test passes unchanged on both sides. Each was mutation-verified
individually against the committed fix and every failure is again by
assertion: dropping the rescale fails the down and up directions, the caller
aliasing test that reportInstanceLimit's pre-cap diff depends on, and the
composition test; removing the SP exemption fails the SP and skip-reporting
tests, which is what proves both directions rather than only the rescaling
one; removing the non-positive guard yields +Inf and fails that guard and the
skip report; making the extrapolation boundary ignore RecommendedCount fires
the warning on an override back up to the provider's own proposal; coercing
the nil monthly cost to zero fails with Expected nil, but got a pointer. The
nil-RecurringMonthlyCost test is the one that passes pre-fix, being a
directional guard against the fix fabricating a zero rather than a regression
test, stated so the coverage is not overread.

ProjectedCoverage and ProjectedUtilization are count-linear and still not
re-derived here, exactly as after a cap (#1845). The stale justification on
the #1830 SP truncation test is corrected in the same change: that test's
route was --override-count, which no longer reaches it, and the live route is
the --input-csv path building Service from the CSV column.

Closes #1844
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--override-count now rescales count-derived recommendation costs, preserves Savings Plans and non-positive counts, reports skipped or extrapolated cases, and documents execution order relative to --max-instances.

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Count Override Rescaling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Implement count override rescaling
cmd/helpers_count_override.go, cmd/helpers.go
ApplyCountOverride scales count-derived monetary fields by the override ratio. It preserves Savings Plans, non-positive counts, intensive fields, provider counts, and nil monthly costs. It reports skipped rows and overrides beyond provider evidence.
Validate override behavior and CLI contract
cmd/helpers_count_override_rescale_test.go, cmd/helpers_instance_limit_rescale_test.go, docs/cli/README.md
Tests cover scaling directions, exemptions, input isolation, reporting, and composition with ApplyInstanceLimit. The CLI documentation describes the updated behavior and ordering.

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The change corrects count-derived monetary totals before instance limiting, preventing overstated savings and costs. It is otherwise mergeable with owner awareness that cmd/helpers.go still exceeds the repository’s 500-line limit and should be addressed separately.

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  participant CLI
  participant ApplyCountOverride
  participant ApplyInstanceLimit
  CLI->>ApplyCountOverride: apply --override-count
  ApplyCountOverride->>ApplyCountOverride: rescale eligible costs and update Count
  ApplyCountOverride-->>ApplyInstanceLimit: return recommendations
  ApplyInstanceLimit->>ApplyInstanceLimit: apply max-instances scaling
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Comment thread cmd/helpers.go Outdated
ApplyCountOverride, evidencedCount and reportCountOverride move verbatim into
cmd/helpers_count_override.go. The public signature is unchanged and every
caller is in the same package, so nothing else moves and nothing is renamed.

This is a pure move, verified as one rather than asserted: every added line
except the six-line package and import header is byte-identical to a removed
line, in the same order, and the source shrank by exactly the moved block plus
its one blank separator. No logic, signature, name or comment changed. The
three functions reference only common.Recommendation, common.IsSavingsPlan,
common.ScaleRecommendationCosts and the package-level AppLogger, so the new
file needs a single import and the source loses none.

cmd/helpers.go goes from 881 to 794 lines, which is 19 below the 813 it stood
at before this PR touched it: the 68 lines this branch added are back out
along with the function they replaced. The new file is 92 lines.

The file is still over the 500-line limit, as are five other non-test files in
cmd/. That is pre-existing and systemic, tracked in #1834, and restructuring
813 lines of money-path code inside a correctness fix is the wrong risk and
makes the behavior diff unreadable. Taking this branch's own additions back
out is the part that belongs here.

Test parity is asserted on the SET of test names and outcomes rather than on a
count, comparing a run in a pristine worktree at the pre-move commit against
one on this tree: identical names, identical outcomes, no additions, no
removals. golangci-lint at the CI-pinned v2.10.1 reports 0 issues and gocyclo
-over 10 is clean on both files, checked after the move because moving code
changes which file the complexity is attributed to.
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Requesting a full review rather than an incremental one: the attempt after the most recent push was rate-limited, so there is no verdict against the current head 84a76796d. The last verdict covered 95b78ccb1, one commit earlier.

The commit since then addresses your file-size finding, narrowly. ApplyCountOverride, evidencedCount and reportCountOverride are extracted into cmd/helpers_count_override.go with the public signature unchanged. It is a pure move: cmd/helpers.go shows 0 additions and 87 deletions, and the function set is identical either side (24 before, 24 after, diff empty).

I declined the wider split with reasoning on the thread. Measured against origin/main, cmd/helpers.go was already 813 lines before this PR, and six non-test files under cmd/ exceed the limit. This PR added 68 lines and has now removed 87, leaving the file at 794, below where it started. The remaining excess is pre-existing debt tracked in #1834.

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One correction for the record: your comment states the file is 633 lines. The actual figures are 813 on main and 881 before the extraction. The finding was valid; that number was not.

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