seed-rate-limit-backoff

What problem does it solve?

Rate-limited HTTP calls commonly suffer from naive retries that waste time, miss Retry-After hints, or blow up resources with unbounded attempts. This skill provides a canonical backoff-with-jitter pattern to make retries efficient and safe.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Verify retryability: distinguish between transient and permanent errors and retry only when appropriate.
• Honor Retry-After: respect server hints to pause before retrying.
• Exponential backoff with full jitter: space retries to avoid thundering herds and ensure stability.
• Cap retries and total elapsed time: prevent endless loops and runaway requests.
• Reference implementation: includes a TypeScript sample illustrating the pattern in production-grade code.

Quick Start

Wrap a failing HTTP call with the withBackoff helper to implement resilient retries.