implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling

implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list. It costs 114 tokens per session (4,153 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for limiting how often users or systems can call an API, an interface used to exchange data. It covers token bucket, sliding-window, and fixed-window counting methods, including counters stored in Redis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure rate limits and throttling for users, IP addresses, and API endpoints with Redis-backed counters.
Why use it?
It helps prevent brute-force attacks, repeated login attempts, resource exhaustion, and other API abuse. Limits can be set for each user, network address, or endpoint.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to configure rate limits and throttling for users, IP addresses, and API endpoints with Redis-backed counters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/njones17/ai-agent-master-cyber-skills-list/implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list --skill implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,153 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 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 $0.00114 $0.04153
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.02076
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00831
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00415

Measured 12d ago against content hash 594e1bd2ac17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling 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 12d 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/application-security/implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling/SKILL.md · 467 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 12d ago First seen · 467 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 594e1bd2ac17

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implementing-api-rate-limiting-and-throttling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list (21 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 4,153 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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