Never Hit 429s Again

You know the drill. Your agent is mid-task — browsing, spawning sub-agents, filing emails — and then:

rate_limit_error: You've exceeded your account's rate limit

Everything stops. Tokens wasted. Context lost. You restart manually, hope for the best, and hit it again 10 minutes later.

This skill prevents that. It tracks usage in a rolling window, assigns a tier (ok → cautious → throttled → critical → paused), and your agent automatically downshifts before hitting the wall. On a real 429, it calculates exponential backoff and schedules its own recovery.

No API keys. No pip installs. No external services. Just a Python script and a JSON state file.

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