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.