alpaca-broker-rate-limits-resilience

What problem does it solve?

This Skill ensures Alpaca API clients remain functional and efficient, handling rate limits and common API issues, ideal for bulk operations, reconciliation, and background jobs.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Rate-Limit Headers: Interprets rate-limit headers to prevent accidental rate-limiting.
• HTTP 429 Backoff: Implements automatic waiting until rate limits are reset.
• Exponential Retry: Recovers from network errors and 5xx status codes with exponential backoff.
• Bounded Concurrency: Prevents overloading APIs with a controlled number of concurrent requests.
• Pagination Loops: Handles API endpoints that return paginated data.
• Timeouts & Batch Sizing: Manages HTTP request timeouts and optimizes bulk data operations.
• Use Case: When running bulk updates, backfill jobs, or reconciliation scans, this Skill prevents interruptions due to API rate limits and unexpected server errors.

Quick Start

Activate this skill to handle rate limits and retries for your Alpaca API client during bulk data updates.