API Rate Limiter Designer
$1.99OfficialDesign rate limiting strategies for APIs: token bucket, sliding window, per-user limits, and 429 response patterns.
code-qualityrate-limitingapi-designscalabilitytoken-bucketreliability· by SkillingMain
What you get
- ✓8-step procedure
- ✓6 pitfalls to avoid
- ✓Installs into 6 tools
- Version
- v1 →
- Last updated
- today
- Length
- 4 min read
- Requires
- Works with any modern AI assistant
Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cline, opencode, OpenClaw, Hermes
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When to use
Use this skill when an API needs protection from abuse, fair resource allocation among tenants, protection of downstream services from overload, or compliance with per-tier usage limits. Rate limiting is also a prerequisite for public APIs with free/paid tiers. Trigger when the user mentions rate limiting, throttling, 429 responses, API quotas, tenant isolation, or abuse prevention.
Inputs to gather
- The API's traffic profile: requests per second at peak, burstiness, endpoint cost variance
- Authentication model (anonymous, API key, OAuth user, service-to-service)
- Tenant or pricing tiers that map to different limits
- Whether limits are global, per-endpoint, per-user,
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