Api Rate Limit Policy
samber/developer-platform-skills/skills/api-rate-limit-policyby samber594cf70d343eMIT3 starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 10 days ago
Design the rate-limit policy a public API publishes to its consumers - the metering model per paradigm (REST request counting vs GraphQL cost points), tier and quota-vs-burst numbers, multi-tenant fairness, rate-limit headers (legacy X-RateLimit-* vs IETF RateLimit fields), 429 and Retry-After behavior, enterprise and partner overrides, and change-notice rules. Use whenever the user mentions rate limits, quotas, throttling tiers, 429 responses, noisy neighbors, or limit-increase requests - even if they never say "rate-limit policy". Policy layer only, not gateway configuration. Do NOT use for the 429 error envelope - use samber/developer-platform-skills@api-error-design instead.
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