Apple Notes Rate Limits

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Rate limiting

Example prompts

• “apple notes rate limit”
• “/apple-notes-rate-limits”

Requirements

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

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Begin below the listed rates and increase only after observing successful sync on every required device.
2. 2Serialize writes and deletes; do not retry a timed-out mutation until a durable idempotency check determines whether it succeeded.
3. 3Pause the queue and escalate if timeout, sync lag, or duplicate detection crosses the service threshold.
4. 4Do not terminate iCloud processes to recover throughput; preserve evidence and use normal OS recovery procedures.

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(osascript:*)
  • Grep

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • jq
  • osascript

  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):

  • developer.apple.com
  • support.apple.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

Apple Notes Rate Limits loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 32 tokens; SKILL.md has 523 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~32

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

~1.7k

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 523 words, ~1,668 tokens.

name

apple-notes-rate-limits

description

Handle Apple Notes automation rate limits and iCloud sync throttling. Trigger: "apple notes rate limit".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(osascript:*), Grep

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.6.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, macos, apple-notes, automation

// src/rate-limit/throttle.ts
import { execSync } from "child_process";

interface ThrottleConfig {
  minDelayMs: number;
  maxRetries: number;
  backoffMultiplier: number;
}

const THROTTLE_CONFIGS: Record<string, ThrottleConfig> = {
  read:   { minDelayMs: 100,  maxRetries: 3, backoffMultiplier: 2 },
  write:  { minDelayMs: 1000, maxRetries: 5, backoffMultiplier: 2 },
  delete: { minDelayMs: 1000, maxRetries: 3, backoffMultiplier: 3 },
  search: { minDelayMs: 500,  maxRetries: 2, backoffMultiplier: 2 },
};

async function throttledExec<T>(
  operation: () => T,
  type: keyof typeof THROTTLE_CONFIGS = "write"
): Promise<T> {
  const config = THROTTLE_CONFIGS[type];
  let delay = config.minDelayMs;

  for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= config.maxRetries; attempt++) {
    try {
      const result = operation();
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, config.minDelayMs));
      return result;
    } catch (e: any) {
      if (attempt === config.maxRetries) throw e;
      console.warn(`Retry ${attempt + 1}/${config.maxRetries} after ${delay}ms: ${e.message}`);
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, delay));
      delay *= config.backoffMultiplier;
    }
  }
  throw new Error("Unreachable");
}

#!/bin/bash
# Batch create notes with throttling
INPUT_FILE="$1"  # JSON array of {title, body} objects
DELAY=1  # seconds between creates

jq -c '.[]' "$INPUT_FILE" | while IFS= read -r note; do
  title=$(echo "$note" | jq -r '.title')
  body=$(echo "$note" | jq -r '.body')
  osascript -l JavaScript -e "
    const Notes = Application('Notes');
    const n = Notes.Note({name: '$title', body: '$body'});
    Notes.defaultAccount.folders[0].notes.push(n);
    n.name();
  " && echo "Created: $title" || echo "FAILED: $title"
  sleep "$DELAY"
done

# Monitor iCloud sync backlog during batch operations
watch -n 5 'echo "=== Sync Status ===";
  brctl status com.apple.Notes 2>/dev/null || echo "brctl unavailable";
  echo ""; echo "=== Note Count ===";
  osascript -l JavaScript -e "Application(\"Notes\").defaultAccount.notes.length" 2>/dev/null'

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

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287