lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker

lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker is a skill for Codex from Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (3,755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A compatibility guide for building public WordPress endpoints that run alongside LW Firewall's early request worker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or auditing REST, AJAX, login, or scheduled endpoints, or when configuring shared limits, route-specific limits, logging, and automatic bans.
Why use it?
The worker can inspect and block requests before normal plugins run, so endpoint code may otherwise behave inconsistently under rate limits, bans, IP rules, or bot checks.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when adding or auditing REST, AJAX, login, or scheduled endpoints, or when configuring shared limits, route-specific limits, logging, and automatic bans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills/lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker
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 Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills --skill lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,755 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00142 $0.03755
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01878
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00376

Measured 9d ago against content hash 94deab03ea7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker 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.

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.

lw-plugins/lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LW Firewall rate-limit worker compatibility

Use this skill when an endpoint may be blocked by LW Firewall or needs a dedicated limit. The copied MU worker runs on muplugins_loaded priority 1, before normal plugin callbacks.

Worker decision order

After bootstrap/version checks, the request path is:

  1. LW_FIREWALL_DISABLE_WORKER and master enabled exits.
  2. Worker heartbeat transient (lw_firewall_worker_alive), written before any decision so the Status tab can tell "installed" from "actually running".
  3. Server/localhost IP exemption.
  4. ip_whitelist exemption.
  5. ip_blacklist 403.
  6. Geo blocking.
  7. Storage resolution (memoized per request).
  8. Shared-ban lookup — unconditional whenever the firewall is on since 1.5.5.
  9. 404-flood lookup.
  10. User-Agent bot blocking.
  11. Endpoint detection.
  12. Per-IP counter, 429/redirect, and optional violation escalation.

Whitelisting bypasses every later worker check. A blacklist or geo block runs before endpoint-specific code.

The server-IP exemption covers 127.0.0.1, ::1 and SERVER_ADDR only. Since 1.5.6 the site's own hostname is deliberately not resolved into an exemption: SERVER_NAME comes from the client's Host header under Apache's default UseCanonicalName Off, so resolving it was a full bypass for any address an attacker could point a hostname at.

Exact endpoint detection

Since 1.5.6 classification runs on the decoded path, never the raw URI. lw_firewall_parse_uri() splits path from query, rawurldecode()s the path, collapses repeated slashes and strips a trailing one; lw_firewall_path_is() then compares with str_ends_with so a subdirectory install's /blog/wp-login.php still matches.

Reason v1.5.6 condition
cron decoded path is/ends with /wp-cron.php, protect_cron; exempt only when doing_wp_cron is a query arg on that path
xmlrpc decoded path is/ends with /xmlrpc.php, protect_xmlrpc
login decoded path is/ends with /wp-login.php, protect_login
rest decoded path contains /wp-json/ (bare /wp-json included) or a rest_route query arg is present, protect_rest_api
filter raw query string contains a configured filter_params substring

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 319 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 94deab03ea7c

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lw-firewall-rate-limit-worker is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 3,755 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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