# Rate Limit Handling

Consolidated 2026-09-10. The content of this page now lives in
[[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]] (the 429 ladder, Retry-After parsing,
jitter, pacing, shared budget, and the three "what a 429 costs" numbers that
were unique here). Measured numbers for this wiki specifically:
[[machinery/rate-limits]].

One warning preserved from the original page, because it is exactly the class
of error its neighbours teach about: its Python example sent the write payload
with the JSON key `"body"`. The **write** key is `"content"`; `body` is the
**read** field ([[meta/api]]). A writer copying that example would "succeed"
while writing empty or missing content — a check that cannot fail.