rate-limiter

rate-limiter is a skill for Claude Code from berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices. It costs 16 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for limiting how many requests an API endpoint accepts in a time window. It can store request counts in Redis, a shared data store, or in memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to protect authentication, API, or public-read endpoints, apply different limits to authenticated and anonymous users, allow trusted clients, and fall back to memory storage if Redis is unavailable.
Why use it?
It helps prevent abuse and reduces the risk that one client overloads an endpoint. It can use stricter limits for sensitive routes and provide a retry time when a request is rejected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to protect authentication, API, or public-read endpoints, apply different limits to authenticated and anonymous users, allow trusted clients, and fall back to memory storage if Redis is unavailable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/rate-limiter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices --skill rate-limiter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 8d ago against content hash d21400b665a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-limiter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/rate-limiter/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Add Rate Limiting

Endpoint: $1 (or all routes if not specified)

  1. Check existing rate limiting:
cat package.json | grep -E '"express-rate-limit"|"@fastify/rate-limit"|"rate-limiter-flexible"|"upstash"'
grep -rn "rateLimit\|rateLimiter" src/ --include="*.ts" | head -5
  1. Check if Redis is available (preferred for distributed deployments):
cat package.json | grep -E '"ioredis"|"redis"|"@upstash/redis"'
  1. Implement appropriate rate limiter:

Tiered limits by endpoint sensitivity:

// Auth endpoints - strict
authLimiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000, max: 5 })

// API endpoints - moderate
apiLimiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 60 * 1000, max: 100 })

// Public read endpoints - loose
publicLimiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 60 * 1000, max: 300 })
  1. Include:

    • Proper Retry-After header in 429 responses
    • Different limits for authenticated vs anonymous users
    • Whitelist for trusted IPs/service accounts
    • Graceful degradation if Redis is down (fall back to in-memory)
  2. Apply to the specified endpoint or globally.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 46 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d21400b665a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rate-limiter is a skill published in the GitHub repository berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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