rate-limit-handling SKILL.md skillA
rate-limit-handling from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/rate-limit-handling@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/api-integration/rate-limit-handling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,756 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Stay within a provider's limits and respond correctly when you exceed them, without hammering or stalling. Use when calling any API at volume.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Rate limit handling Rate limits are a contract, and hitting them repeatedly can escalate from throttling to suspension. Handling them well means staying under proactively rather than reacting to rejections. ## Method 1. **Read the limit headers, not just the errors.** Providers report remaining quota and reset time, which allows slowing down before being rejected. 2. **Honour the retry-after value.** It is the provider telling you exactly when to return, and ignoring it is what turns throttling into a block. 3. **Throttle client-side to stay under.** A token bucket sized below the limit prevents most rejections entirely (see rate-limiting). 4. **Back off exponentially with jitter.** Synchronised retries from many workers reproduce the burst that caused the limit (see timeouts-and-retries). 5. **Queue rather than drop where the work matters.** Deferring work to stay within quota is usually better than failing it, provided the queue is bounded. 6. **Batch where the API supports it.** One request for fifty records uses one unit of quota rather than fifty, which is often the whole solution. …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/rate-limit-handling@sha256:12a8e961f1404137The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 28, 2026.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 1,756 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.419e522 | 2026-07-28 | 419e522 | 1,751 B | A | view |
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t4xf6js4enl7qyh4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/rate-limit-handling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/12a8e961f14041375af21e9364a5005d425690192562dbab8cac3a35f9010472
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