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This skill helps configure rate limiter settings with production-ready guidance, validating configurations against best practices for security and performance.

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---
name: "rate-limiter-config"
description: |
  Configure rate limiter config operations. Auto-activating skill for Security Fundamentals.
  Triggers on: rate limiter config, rate limiter config
  Part of the Security Fundamentals skill category. Use when configuring systems or services. Trigger with phrases like "rate limiter config", "rate config", "rate".
allowed-tools: "Read, Write, Grep, Bash(npm:*)"
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
author: "Jeremy Longshore <[email protected]>"
---

# Rate Limiter Config

## Overview

This skill provides automated assistance for rate limiter config tasks within the Security Fundamentals domain.

## When to Use

This skill activates automatically when you:
- Mention "rate limiter config" in your request
- Ask about rate limiter config patterns or best practices
- Need help with essential security skills covering authentication, input validation, secure coding practices, and basic vulnerability detection.

## Instructions

1. Provides step-by-step guidance for rate limiter config
2. Follows industry best practices and patterns
3. Generates production-ready code and configurations
4. Validates outputs against common standards

## Examples

**Example: Basic Usage**
Request: "Help me with rate limiter config"
Result: Provides step-by-step guidance and generates appropriate configurations


## Prerequisites

- Relevant development environment configured
- Access to necessary tools and services
- Basic understanding of security fundamentals concepts


## Output

- Generated configurations and code
- Best practice recommendations
- Validation results


## Error Handling

| Error | Cause | Solution |
|-------|-------|----------|
| Configuration invalid | Missing required fields | Check documentation for required parameters |
| Tool not found | Dependency not installed | Install required tools per prerequisites |
| Permission denied | Insufficient access | Verify credentials and permissions |


## Resources

- Official documentation for related tools
- Best practices guides
- Community examples and tutorials

## Related Skills

Part of the **Security Fundamentals** skill category.
Tags: security, authentication, validation, owasp, secure-coding

Overview

This skill automates rate limiter configuration tasks for services and applications as part of Security Fundamentals. It offers step-by-step guidance, produces production-ready config snippets, and validates settings against common security standards. Use it to apply consistent throttling patterns and reduce abuse and DoS risks.

How this skill works

The skill inspects requested rate limiting goals (per-user, per-IP, per-endpoint) and suggests patterns such as token bucket, leaky bucket, and fixed-window strategies. It generates configuration examples (reverse proxy, API gateway, application middleware) and validates them against best-practice thresholds, burst allowances, and persistence requirements. It also flags missing prerequisites and common misconfigurations.

When to use it

When designing rate limits for APIs or endpoints
When configuring proxies, gateways, or middleware with throttling
When you need production-ready config snippets or templates
When validating existing rate limiter settings for security gaps
When enforcing per-user or per-tenant quotas

Best practices

Define clear goals: requests per second/minute and acceptable burst behavior
Prefer token-bucket or leaky-bucket for smooth traffic shaping; use fixed-window only for simple scenarios
Persist counters in a shared store for distributed services (Redis, etcd) to avoid bypasses
Set conservative default limits, then adjust based on observed traffic and metrics
Include meaningful headers (Retry-After, X-RateLimit-*) and clear client error responses

Example use cases

Generate nginx or Envoy rate-limiter config for an API endpoint with burst support
Create middleware snippets (Express, Flask, Spring) implementing token-bucket limits
Validate existing rate limit configs and highlight missing persistence or header support
Design per-user and per-IP hybrid limits for multi-tenant applications
Produce test cases and load scenarios to tune threshold values

FAQ

What inputs do you need to generate a config?

Provide target service type (proxy, gateway, app), desired limits (requests/time), burst allowance, scope (user, IP, endpoint), and deployment details (single-node or distributed).

Can this produce distributed counter configurations?

Yes. I generate examples showing centralized counters using Redis or other stores, plus suggestions for eventual consistency and TTL settings to avoid counter bloat.