The Agent Skills Directory

[SAFE]: The skill functions as a utility library providing an HTTP client infrastructure for other skills. It implements standard networking features like exponential backoff and cross-process rate limiting using Python's standard library.
[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The HttpClient class is designed to perform network operations to fetch scientific data from remote APIs. It uses the urllib.request module and includes logic to respect server-directed throttling via 'Retry-After' and 'X-Throttling-Control' headers.
[SAFE]: File system access is limited to managing lock files in /tmp using fcntl for cross-process synchronization. This is a standard practice for implementing shared rate limits on Unix-like systems.

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