meta {
  name: Scale Down
  type: http
  seq: 6
}

post {
  url: {{coordinatorBaseUrl}}/api/coordinator/scale-down
  body: none
  auth: inherit
}

settings {
  encodeUrl: true
  timeout: 0
}

docs {
  Triggers manual scale-down of core replicas via Kubernetes rollout.
  Requires auto-scale-enabled=true and a reachable k8s API.
  Respects scale-min-replicas (default: 2).

  Requires port-forward: kubectl port-forward svc/nowchess-coordinator 8086:8086 -n <namespace>

  Auto-scale triggers when avg load drops below scale-down-threshold (default: 0.3).

  Response: {"status": "scale_down_started"}
}