rate-limiting-algorithms

rate-limiting-algorithms is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 174 tokens per session (3,772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to controlling how many requests an API or service accepts over a period of time. It compares common methods such as token bucket, sliding window, and leaky bucket.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and implement limits by user, IP address, or API key, build Redis-based limits, return 429 responses, and handle client backoff.
Why use it?
It helps prevent abuse, traffic spikes, runaway costs, and overload of your service or a third-party provider.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose and implement limits by user, IP address, or API key, build Redis-based limits, return 429 responses, and handle client backoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/rate-limiting-algorithms
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill rate-limiting-algorithms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,772 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 $0.00174 $0.03772
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.01886
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00754
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00377

Measured 7d ago against content hash 05689ec1d963, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-limiting-algorithms 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 7d 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/engineering-core/ours/rate-limiting-algorithms/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rate Limiting Algorithms Skill — 限流算法

何时使用

  • 公开 API 防滥用 / 防爬虫 / 防 DDoS
  • 第三方服务调用(自家被动限流避免成本爆炸)
  • 设计 API quota / billing 体系
  • 选择 Nginx / Redis / 应用层限流的组合
  • 排查"客户感觉被误伤"

一、六种核心算法

1. Fixed Window(固定窗口)

[ 0:00 - 0:59 ] 计数 100 次
[ 1:00 - 1:59 ] 计数清零,重新计 100 次
# Redis 实现
key = f"ratelimit:{user_id}:{minute}"
count = redis.incr(key)
if count == 1: redis.expire(key, 60)
if count > 100: reject()

优点:简单 / 内存少 缺点边界突发:0:59 用 100 次 + 1:00 立刻又 100 次 = 1 秒内 200 次,可能压垮下游

2. Sliding Window Log(滑动窗口日志)

# 每次请求记 timestamp 到 sorted set
redis.zadd(key, {req_id: now})
redis.zremrangebyscore(key, 0, now - 60)   # 清 60s 前
count = redis.zcard(key)
if count > 100: reject()

优点:精确,无边界突发 缺点:内存大(每请求一条记录)

3. Sliding Window Counter(滑动窗口计数)

近似算法,工业首选:

当前窗口 [now-60, now]
= 当前分钟 已计数 × (已过秒数 / 60) + 上一分钟计数 × (剩余比例)

例:当前 1:30,已计 50;上一分钟(0:00-0:59)计 80
counter = 50 + 80 × (60-30)/60 = 50 + 40 = 90
-- Redis Lua(原子)
local current = redis.call('GET', KEYS[1]) or 0
local previous = redis.call('GET', KEYS[2]) or 0
local elapsed = tonumber(ARGV[1])   -- 当前窗口已过秒数
local rate = tonumber(current) + tonumber(previous) * (60 - elapsed) / 60
if rate >= tonumber(ARGV[2]) then return 0 end
redis.call('INCR', KEYS[1])
redis.call('EXPIRE', KEYS[1], 120)
return 1

优点:精度近 SW Log + 内存仅两个计数器 缺点:近似算法,假设窗口内请求均匀分布

4. Token Bucket(令牌桶)

桶容量 100 个 token
每秒补充 10 个(最大 100)
每个请求消耗 1 个 token
桶空时拒绝
def allow(now):
    elapsed = now - last_refill
    tokens = min(capacity, tokens + elapsed * refill_rate)
    last_refill = now
    if tokens >= 1:
        tokens -= 1
        return True
    return False

优点

  • 允许突发(桶满时可一次发 100 个)
  • 长期速率稳定
  • AWS / GCP / Stripe 等大厂常用

缺点:实现稍复杂(需要存 tokens + last_refill)

5. Leaky Bucket(漏桶)

桶容量 100,固定速率 10/秒"漏出"
请求加入桶(满则拒绝)
def allow(now):
    leaked = (now - last_check) * leak_rate
    bucket = max(0, bucket - leaked)
    last_check = now
    if bucket + 1 <= capacity:
        bucket += 1
        return True
    return False

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 402 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 05689ec1d963

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rate-limiting-algorithms is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 3,772 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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