coderabbit-cost-tuning

CodeRabbit Cost and Usage Review

Overview

Build an approval-ready cost decision from current dashboard and plan evidence. Prices, allowances, and entitlements are time-sensitive.

Prerequisites

• Identify the CodeRabbit organization, Git provider, repository, plan, and accountable owner.
• Read references/official-docs.md and re-check any time-sensitive contract before execution.
• Use synthetic or read-only evidence until the approval boundary is satisfied.
• Preserve the repository's independent CI, security, and human-review requirements.

Current Contract

• The plans page is authoritative for current prices and hourly allowances.
• Seats and administrative roles are separate controls.
• The usage-based add-on can extend eligible PR and CLI reviews.
• Mid-cycle changes can create prorated charges.

Authentication

Treat Git-provider sessions, CodeRabbit web sessions, CLI credentials, and CodeRabbit API keys as separate credentials. Use only an already-approved session or secret-manager reference, never print a secret, and do not place credentials in .coderabbit.yaml, source files, logs, or deliverables.

Instructions

1. Capture plan, cadence, seats, add-on state, and usage for one period.

2. Separate unused seats, avoidable overage, repository scope, and capacity needs.

3. Model keep, right-size, and upgrade scenarios with dated prices.

4. Present savings, impact, owner, effective date, and rollback constraints.

Tool Discipline

• Use Glob to locate candidate configuration and evidence files without widening scope.
• Use Grep to find relevant fields, commands, identifiers, and stale claims.
• Use Read to inspect the smallest required files and authoritative evidence.
• Use Write only for a new approved local draft or evidence artifact.
• Use Edit only for a bounded approved change whose rollback is known.
• Do not use these file tools as a substitute for authenticated CodeRabbit or provider operations.

Approval Boundaries

Never buy credits, change plans, remove seats, or alter access without billing and organization-owner approval. Keep analysis and drafts local until approval is explicit, and record who approved the action and its scope.

Output

A dated baseline, scenario table, evidence links, recommendation, and approval record. Include source dates, unknowns, and the exact boundary between observed fact and recommendation.

Error Handling

Examples

Example 1

Identify inactive assigned seats before a downgrade.

Example 2

Compare a higher plan with usage credits using current evidence.

Validation

• Confirm every claim against the dated sources in references/official-docs.md.
• Verify the requested scope, owner, approval, happy path, failure path, and rollback.
• Re-read the effective configuration or provider state after any approved change.
• Report unsupported fields, undocumented endpoints, and unverified assumptions as failures.

Resources

• Official documentation and contract notes
• Re-check the dated contract before any live operation.
• Treat unresolved or changed vendor behavior as a stop condition.