http-best-practices

http-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LuuOW/meridian-mcp. It costs 32 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of patterns for building HTTP clients and servers, which are programs that communicate through web requests. It covers time limits, retries, request safety, status codes, and tracing requests and responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing HTTP calls, choosing retryable errors, adding exponential backoff with random variation, respecting Retry-After, and assigning idempotency keys to operations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent requests from hanging forever, being retried when they should not be, or repeating an operation that changes data. It also makes temporary failures and request behaviour easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when implementing HTTP calls, choosing retryable errors, adding exponential backoff with random variation, respecting Retry-After, and assigning idempotency keys to operations.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices
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 LuuOW/meridian-mcp --skill http-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuuOW/meridian-mcp

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.

agentmods badge for http-best-practices

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for http-best-practices

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/http-best-practices.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 153 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 $0.00032 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 9d ago against content hash 78f2987d9251, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

http-best-practices 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.

example-skills/http-best-practices/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

http-best-practices

Timeouts

  • Always set connect timeout (≤5s) and read timeout (≤30s)
  • Never trust defaults; they vary by library

Retries

  • Only retry on transient: 408, 429, 502, 503, 504, network errors
  • Exponential backoff + jitter
  • Respect Retry-After header

Idempotency

  • Use Idempotency-Key header for non-GET methods
  • UUID per logical operation, not per HTTP attempt
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 · 20 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 78f2987d9251

Subscribe to this mod's changes

http-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository LuuOW/meridian-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 153 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

mem0-oss-to-platform

Plan and then execute a migration of a project from the mem0 open-source / self-hosted SDK (the local Memory class) to the mem0 Platform / hosted / managed SDK (the MemoryClient class). Use this whenever a developer wants to move, switch, or migrate their mem0 usage off OSS/self-hosted to the hosted API — e.g.…

mem0ai/mem0 · 273 tokens

agui-dotnet-protobuf

Use the protobuf wire transport (instead of the default Server-Sent Events) for an AG-UI connection with the AG-UI .NET SDK — a compact binary event stream negotiated via the Accept header. USE FOR: making an AGUIChatClient prefer protobuf by wiring an AGUIEventStreamHandler with ProtobufEventStreamFormatter (then…

ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui · 162 tokens

azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnet

Azure Resource Manager SDK for Bot Service in .NET. Management plane operations for creating and managing Azure Bot resources, channels (Teams, DirectLine, Slack), and connection settings. Triggers: "Bot Service", "BotResource", "Azure Bot", "DirectLine channel", "Teams channel", "bot management .NET", "create bot".

microsoft/skills · 78 tokens

fastapi-router-py

Create FastAPI routers with CRUD operations, authentication dependencies, and proper response models. Use when building REST API endpoints, creating new routes, implementing CRUD operations, or adding authenticated endpoints in FastAPI applications.

microsoft/skills · 46 tokens

migrate-segw-to-rap

Reverse-engineer a SEGW-built OData V2 service (MPC/DPC/MPCEXT/DPCEXT) into a modern RAP V4 service — tables, CDS views (interface + projection), behavior definitions, draft entities, service definition + binding. Use when asked to "migrate this SEGW service to RAP", "convert OData V2 to V4 RAP", "modernize this…

arc-mcp/arc-1 · 106 tokens

telnyx-messaging-hosted-curl

Set up hosted SMS numbers, toll-free verification, and RCS messaging. Use when migrating numbers or enabling rich messaging features. This skill provides REST API (curl) examples.

team-telnyx/ai · 45 tokens