rate-limiting-review

rate-limiting-review is a skill for Codex from Eliyce/paqad-ai. It costs 30 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review for finding application actions that have no limits on how often or how much they can be used. Rate limiting means restricting repeated requests or oversized operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect login and password-reset routes, OTP and MFA checks, bulk operations, exports, downloads, imports, expensive queries, and WebSocket handlers.
Why use it?
Without these limits, attackers may guess passwords or one-time codes, overload the database, or extract large amounts of data.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inspect login and password-reset routes, OTP and MFA checks, bulk operations, exports, downloads, imports, expensive queries, and WebSocket handlers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eliyce/paqad-ai/rate-limiting-review
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 Eliyce/paqad-ai --skill rate-limiting-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eliyce/paqad-ai

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 767 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 $0.00030 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75b9f8defb80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-limiting-review 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/lint-findings.sh, scripts/scan-rate-limit.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

runtime/capabilities/security/skills/rate-limiting-review/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What It Does

Reviews the application for endpoints and operations that lack rate limiting, creating denial-of-service or brute-force surfaces. Maps to OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 #4 — Unrestricted Resource Consumption.

Use This When

Use this when module docs or route inventories describe authentication endpoints, registration flows, OTP/MFA verification, password resets, data export endpoints, bulk operations, or any endpoint that triggers expensive backend work.

Inputs

  • Read module docs to identify high-risk endpoint categories.
  • Read references/rate-limit-signals.md for per-framework absence patterns.
  • Read routing and middleware configuration files.

Procedure

  1. Authentication-sensitive endpoints: Find /login, /register, /reset-password, /verify-otp, /resend-otp, /verify-email. Check for throttle, rate_limit, limiter, RateLimit middleware on each. Missing rate limiting enables credential stuffing and OTP brute-force.

  2. Bulk / export endpoints: Find /export, /bulk, /download, /import, /batch. Check for per-user quotas, record-count limits, and size limits. Missing limits enable data exfiltration and DB overload.

  3. Expensive operations: Find endpoints that trigger N+1 queries, ML inference calls, PDF generation, email sending, or large file processing. Check for job queuing or concurrency caps. Missing controls enable CPU/memory exhaustion.

  4. WebSocket handlers: Check for per-connection message rate limits. Missing limits enable message flooding.

  5. Unauthenticated expensive endpoints: Identify unauthenticated endpoints that trigger expensive backend work (e.g., search across all records, asset resize on upload, public preview generation). These are the highest DoS risk because no authentication barrier exists.

  6. Pagination limits: Find list endpoints that accept a per_page, limit, or page_size parameter. Check for a maximum cap (e.g., max 100 records per page). Missing caps enable database full-table scans via ?per_page=999999.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 75b9f8defb80

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rate-limiting-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eliyce/paqad-ai (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 767 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.