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Appfolio Rate Limits

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff.

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Appfolio Rate Limits

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill appfolio-rate-limits -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace appfolio-rate-limits --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/appfolio-rate-limits .claude/skills/appfolio-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
appfolio-rate-limits
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
455 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff.

  • Works in 4 steps: Select the limiter ceiling for the… → Acquire a token before each request,… → Process writes from a persisted cursor… → …
  • Tasks that involve Rate limiting
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions and Rate Limit Reference, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Appfolio Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff. Trigger: "appfolio rate limit".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Rate limiting. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Rate limiting

Example prompts

  • “appfolio rate limit”
  • “/appfolio-rate-limits”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep

Workflow steps

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

  1. Select the limiter ceiling for the specific endpoint and keep concurrency
  2. Acquire a token before each request, honor Retry-After, and cap retries
  3. Process writes from a persisted cursor with idempotency keys; never replay a
  4. Pause and escalate batches that exhaust the retry budget, hit a maintenance

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Bash(npm:*)
    • Bash(curl:*)
    • Grep

    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 typescript).

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • appfolio.com

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Appfolio Rate Limits loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 28 tokens; SKILL.md has 455 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~28
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 455 words, ~1,559 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/appfolio-rate-limits/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
appfolio-rate-limits
description
Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff. Trigger: "appfolio rate limit".
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code
version
1.5.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, property-management, appfolio, real-estate

AppFolio Rate Limits

Overview

AppFolio's Stack API enforces per-partner rate limits to protect shared property management infrastructure. High-volume operations like bulk tenant imports, rent-roll syncs, and work-order batch updates can quickly exhaust quotas. Property managers running nightly portfolio syncs across hundreds of units must throttle carefully, especially during month-end when lease renewals and payment processing spike concurrently.

Prerequisites

  • A verified per-endpoint limit from the current AppFolio partner contract or response headers; do not rely on a generic rate value for tenant writes.
  • Persisted batch cursors, idempotency keys for every write, and an operator policy for pausing month-end or other safety-sensitive workloads.
  • A staging fixture and request-budget owner who can prove retries, 429 behavior, and unknown-write handling without touching production tenants.

Instructions

  1. Select the limiter ceiling for the specific endpoint and keep concurrency below the smallest applicable portfolio or partner limit.
  2. Acquire a token before each request, honor Retry-After, and cap retries with jitter for transient provider failures.
  3. Process writes from a persisted cursor with idempotency keys; never replay a tenant create just because the response was lost.
  4. Pause and escalate batches that exhaust the retry budget, hit a maintenance window, or have an unknown write outcome.

Rate Limit Reference

EndpointLimitWindowScope
Properties list/get120 req1 minutePer partner key
Tenant create/update30 req1 minutePer partner key
Work orders60 req1 minutePer partner key
Bulk data export5 req1 hourPer partner key
Webhooks registration10 req1 minutePer partner key

Rate Limiter Implementation

typescript
class AppFolioRateLimiter {
  private tokens: number;
  private lastRefill: number;
  private readonly maxTokens: number;
  private readonly refillRate: number; // tokens per ms

  constructor(maxPerMinute: number) {
    this.maxTokens = maxPerMinute;
    this.tokens = maxPerMinute;
    this.lastRefill = Date.now();
    this.refillRate = maxPerMinute / 60_000;
  }

  async acquire(): Promise<void> {
    for (;;) {
      this.refill();
      if (this.tokens >= 1) {
        this.tokens -= 1;
        return;
      }
      // Wait until the next token is available; no later request is needed to
      // wake this caller.
      const waitMs = Math.max(1, Math.ceil((1 - this.tokens) / this.refillRate));
      await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, waitMs));
    }
  }

  private refill() {
    const now = Date.now();
    this.tokens = Math.min(this.maxTokens, this.tokens + (now - this.lastRefill) * this.refillRate);
    this.lastRefill = now;
  }
}

const limiter = new AppFolioRateLimiter(25); // configure per endpoint contract

Retry Strategy

typescript
async function appfolioRetry<T>(fn: () => Promise<Response>, maxRetries = 4): Promise<T> {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++) {
    await limiter.acquire();
    const res = await fn();
    if (res.ok) return res.json();
    if (res.status === 429) {
      const retryAfter = parseInt(res.headers.get("Retry-After") || "10", 10);
      const delay = retryAfter * 1000 + Math.random() * 2000;
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, delay));
      continue;
    }
    if (res.status >= 500 && attempt < maxRetries) {
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, Math.pow(2, attempt) * 1000));
      continue;
    }
    throw new Error(`AppFolio API ${res.status}: ${await res.text()}`);
  }
  throw new Error("Max retries exceeded");
}

Batch Processing

typescript
async function batchSyncTenants(tenants: any[], batchSize = 25) {
  const results: any[] = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < tenants.length; i += batchSize) {
    const batch = tenants.slice(i, i + batchSize);
    const batchResults = await Promise.all(
      batch.map(t => appfolioRetry(() =>
        fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/tenants`, {
          method: "POST", headers, body: JSON.stringify(t),
        })
      ))
    );
    results.push(...batchResults);
    if (i + batchSize < tenants.length) await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 2000));
  }
  return results;
}
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Error Handling

IssueCauseFix
429 Too Many RequestsExceeded partner rate limitBackoff using Retry-After header
403 on bulk exportHourly export cap reachedQueue exports with 15-min spacing
Timeout on property listLarge portfolio (500+ units)Paginate with per_page=50
409 Conflict on tenant updateConcurrent write to same tenantRetry with fresh ETag
503 during maintenanceScheduled nightly window (2-4 AM PT)Skip requests, retry after window

Output

  • A self-scheduling, endpoint-specific limiter that cannot strand queued work
  • Bounded retry outcomes with Retry-After evidence and redacted failure data
  • A persisted batch decision: completed, paused for later retry, or quarantined for operator reconciliation

Examples

For a sandbox tenant-update batch, set the limiter below the documented tenant write ceiling, process one record at a time with idempotency keys, and preserve the cursor after each confirmed result. Induce a 429 to prove that callers wait and resume without an additional request, then induce a lost response to prove the record is quarantined rather than blindly replayed. If rate headers conflict with the configured ceiling, retries exhaust, or maintenance starts, pause the batch and hand the cursor to the owner.

Resources

Next Steps

See appfolio-performance-tuning.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/appfolio-rate-limits of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Appfolio Rate Limits

What does Appfolio Rate Limits do?

Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff. Appfolio Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Handle AppFolio API rate limits with throttling and backoff.

When should I use Appfolio Rate Limits?

Appfolio Rate Limits fits situations like: tasks that involve Rate limiting.

How do I install Appfolio Rate Limits in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill appfolio-rate-limits -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/appfolio-rate-limits in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/appfolio-rate-limits in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Appfolio Rate Limits in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill appfolio-rate-limits -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/appfolio-rate-limits in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/appfolio-rate-limits in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Appfolio Rate Limits in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill appfolio-rate-limits -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/appfolio-rate-limits, .gemini/skills/appfolio-rate-limits, .github/skills/appfolio-rate-limits and .opencode/skills/appfolio-rate-limits in your project.

What does Appfolio Rate Limits need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Appfolio Rate Limits is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Bash(curl:*), Grep. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.

Does Appfolio Rate Limits access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: appfolio.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Appfolio Rate Limits safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Appfolio Rate Limits use?

Appfolio Rate Limits is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Appfolio Rate Limits use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Appfolio Rate Limits?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.