Podium Rate Limit Survival Agent Skill

Survive the rate-limit failure modes that crater production Podium integrations —.

Context cost
20k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
11 files · 95.7 kB4 scripts among them — read before you run
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.12.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Survive the rate-limit failure modes that crater production Podium integrations —

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

apiburst-controlpodiumquota-monitoringrate-limitsresiliencetoken-bucket

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md20.6 kB · preview
--- name: podium-rate-limit-survival allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash(curl:*), Bash(jq:*), Bash(python3:*), Bash(redis-cli:*), Grep version: 2.12.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io> compatibility: Designed for Claude Code tags: - podium - rate-limits - token-bucket - quota-monitoring - resilience - burst-control ---
24# Podium Rate Limit Survival
25
26## Overview
27
28Make the outbound side of a Podium integration survive a real production day. This is not a "just retry on 429" walkthrough — it is the rate-limiting code your integration runs when Shopify ships 80 orders at 5pm AEST and KombiLife fires 80 review-request POSTs in 30 seconds, when an inbound webhook burst fans out 5x outbound, and when a junior engineer's naive retry loop has already eaten 92% of the daily quota by 10:30am.
29
30The six production failures this skill prevents:
31
321. **Cascading 429s burn the whole day** — a naive while status == 429: retry loop stampedes the per-minute window for the rest of the minute, then the next minute, etc. By 11am you've consumed the 24-hour quota and every endpoint is hard-down until UTC midnight.
332. **Retry-After header ignored** — clients that retry on a fixed delay (or worse, no delay) miss Podium's server-side hint and hit the same rate wall again. The header supports both integer seconds and HTTP-date form; many clients parse one and crash on the other.
343. **No daily-quota monitor** — the 24-hour envelope quota is silent until you breach it. Operations discover the wall on a Friday afternoon when review-request automation collapses and the on-call has no leading indicator.
354. **No per-endpoint isolation** — the conversations.write endpoint blows its budget on a chatty inbound webhook; contacts.read also fails because the client treats the API as a single bucket. One endpoint family taking down siblings is a multiplier on every other failure mode.
365. **End-of-day burst overflow** — Shopify orders ship in a 5pm cluster, KombiLife fires ~80 review-request POSTs in 30 seconds, the per-minute ceiling rejects half. The integration "works" 23 hours a day and silently drops 30-50% of review requests during the only hour that matters commercially.
376. **Webhook-driven amplification** — one inbound webhook triggers 5 outbound API calls; 100 inbound webhooks in a burst = 500 outbound = quota collapse. The amplification factor is invisible until the cascade fires.
38
39## Authentication
40
41This skill **does not** mint, refresh, or hold Podium credentials — those concerns live in the sibling podium-auth skill. Every wrapped HTTP call in this skill calls auth.get_token() immediately after the bucket releases, where auth is a PodiumAuth instance constructed by the consumer per the podium-auth skill instructions (OAuth2 refresh-token grant against https://accounts.podium.com/oauth/token). The bearer token is passed in the Authorization: Bearer {token} header on every api.podium.com request. If auth.get_token() raises, this skill propagates the auth error to the caller without retry — auth recovery is podium-auth's responsibility, not this skill's.
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md2,554 words
Files11
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈250
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
19,775
on trigger
The instruction body and 10 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
10.0%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

20k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It asks the agent to write files, using whatever file access your client already has. Whether it reaches the network is not declared.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessnot declared

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

11 files, 95.7 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 4 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md20.6 kB
  • ARD.md16.9 kB
  • PRD.md11.7 kB
  • config/settings.yaml4.9 kB
  • references/errors.md8.3 kB
  • references/examples.md7.6 kB
  • references/implementation.md10.1 kB
  • scripts/bucket_simulator.py5.3 kB
  • scripts/burst_smoother.py3.8 kB
  • scripts/quota_monitor.py3.2 kB
  • scripts/retry_after_parse.py3.3 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 4 scripts beside the text, so the bundle is 11 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Podium Rate Limit Survival · 20k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/podium-rate-limit-survival" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival ] || { mv .claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/podium-rate-limit-survival" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add jeremylongshore/podium-rate-limit-survival

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/podium-rate-limit-survival" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/podium-rate-limit-survival" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/podium-rate-limit-survival/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version2.12.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencejeremylongshore/podium-rate-limit-survival

Versions

v2.12.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v2.12.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v2.12.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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