What is api-rate-limiter-designer?

A design guide for limiting how often clients can call an API, using methods such as token buckets and request windows. It also covers quotas, HTTP 429 responses, and limits for multiple tenants.

Use it to design request limits, customer quotas, over-limit responses, and rate limiting for multi-tenant APIs.

Uncontrolled API traffic can overload services or let one customer use too many shared resources. Rate limits define what callers may do and how the API responds when they exceed it.

api-rate-limiter-designer — Skill by johnefemer/skillfish

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 johnefemer/skillfish --skill api-rate-limiter-designer

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnefemer/skillfish

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 752 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00752
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00301
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00150
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00075

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8e258b38cb0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-rate-limiter-designer 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 2mo 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-limiter-designer/SKILL.md · 69 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8e258b38cb0a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-rate-limiter-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnefemer/skillfish (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 752 tokens. 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.

Backend and APIs

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