api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert

api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/windags-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,420 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to limiting how many requests an API accepts over time. It covers token-bucket and sliding-window methods, including implementations using Redis, a fast data store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design throttling rules, implement request limits with Redis, protect API endpoints, and manage quotas.
Why use it?
It helps protect APIs from abuse, excessive traffic, and some denial-of-service attacks. It also supports managing usage quotas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design throttling rules, implement request limits with Redis, protect API endpoints, and manage quotas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/windags-skills/api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert
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 curiositech/windags-skills --skill api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/windags-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,420 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 unknown 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 $0.00081 $0.01420
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00710
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00142

Measured 11d ago against content hash bff880fe84e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert 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 11d 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/api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert/SKILL.md · 137 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 137 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A bff880fe84e2

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api-rate-limiting-throttling-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/windags-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,420 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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