Quota Management

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Integrating external services that impose rate

Example prompts

• “Use the quota-management skill to track quotas, monitors thresholds, and degrades gracefully for rate-limited APIs”
• “/quota-management”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Initialize tracker for your service
2. 2Check quota before operations
3. 3Record usage after operations
4. 4Handle threshold warnings gracefully

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python and yaml).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Quota Management loads about 780 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 185 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~43

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~780

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 185 words, ~780 tokens.

name

quota-management

description

Tracks quotas, monitors thresholds, and degrades gracefully for rate-limited APIs. Use when integrating external services that impose rate or cost limits.

alwaysApply

false

category

infrastructure

tags

quota, rate-limiting, resource-management, thresholds

provides.infrastructure

quota-tracking, threshold-monitoring, usage-estimation

provides.patterns

graceful-degradation, quota-enforcement, cost-optimization

usage_patterns

service-integration, rate-limit-management, resource-monitoring

complexity

intermediate

model_hint

standard

estimated_tokens

500

progressive_loading

true

@dataclass
class QuotaConfig:
    requests_per_minute: int = 60
    requests_per_day: int = 1000
    tokens_per_minute: int = 100000
    tokens_per_day: int = 1000000

from leyline.quota_tracker import QuotaTracker

tracker = QuotaTracker(service="my-service")
status, warnings = tracker.get_quota_status()

if status == "CRITICAL":
    # Defer or use secondary service
    pass

tracker.record_request(tokens=estimated_tokens, success=True, duration=elapsed_seconds)

can_proceed, issues = tracker.can_handle_task(estimated_tokens)
if not can_proceed:
    print(f"Quota issues: {issues}")

# In your skill's frontmatter
dependencies: [leyline:quota-management]

© athola, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in plugins/leyline/skills/quota-management of athola/claude-night-market.

• SKILL.md
• modules/estimation-patterns.md
• modules/threshold-strategies.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00