API Rate Limiting

API Rate Limiting is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by secondsky in claude-skills.

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Install API Rate Limiting

Copy API Rate Limiting into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/api-rate-limiting/skills/api-rate-limiting ~/.claude/skills/api-rate-limiting

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/api-rate-limiting/skills/api-rate-limiting/SKILL.md in secondsky/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-rate-limiting
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 920 skills

What API Rate Limiting does

API Rate Limiting implements token bucket, sliding window, and Redis-based limits to protect APIs from abuse. Use it for public APIs, tiered access, and blocking request spikes or denial-of-service attacks.

API Rate Limiting is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. API Rate Limiting comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-commands, claude-code-hooks, claude-code-plugin and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Rate Limiting

Protect APIs from abuse using rate limiting algorithms with per-user and per-endpoint strategies.

Algorithms

Algorithm	Pros	Cons
Token Bucket	Handles bursts, smooth	Memory per user
Sliding Window	Accurate	Memory intensive
Fixed Window	Simple	Boundary spikes

Token Bucket (Node.js)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about API Rate Limiting

What else does secondsky publish alongside API Rate Limiting?
API Rate Limiting is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from secondsky/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Authentication, API Changelog & Versioning and API Contract Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Rate Limiting does, and is maintained by secondsky in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the secondsky/claude-skills page.
How does API Rate Limiting compare to other DevOps skills?
API Rate Limiting ranks #816 by stars among the 920 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of API Rate Limiting against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.