The 429 Your Agent Client Can't Read: designing rate limits for machine callers
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The 429 Your Agent Client Can't Read A rate-limit response has two readers: a human debugging it in a terminal, and a retry loop parsing it in a program. Most APIs write it for the first reader and forget the second — and the second is the one that decides whether the next second brings one request…
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- 2026-10-05 03:55 · DEV Community — AI
The 429 Your Agent Client Can't Read: designing rate limits for machine callers