Agent skill

Brightdata Rate Limits

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

Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits.

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Brightdata Rate Limits

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace brightdata-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/brightdata-rate-limits .claude/skills/brightdata-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
brightdata-rate-limits
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~912 tokens
SKILL.md length
345 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits.

  • Works in 4 steps: Measure the lane → Separate controllers → Apply evidence-based backoff → …
  • Handling 429 responses
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions and Tool Discipline, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Brightdata Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits. Use when handling 429 responses, dataset job ceilings, or uneven proxy pressure. Trigger with: "tune Bright Data concurrency", "handle Bright Data 429", "set a dataset job budget".

Its SKILL.md is about 910 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires an approved Bright Data account or offline fixtures, current Bright Data documentation, and an authorized public-data collection purpose

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Rate limiting. It works with Bright Data. 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

  • Handling 429 responses
  • Dataset job ceilings
  • Uneven proxy pressure
  • With: tune Bright Data concurrency

Example prompts

  • “tune Bright Data concurrency”
  • “handle Bright Data 429”
  • “set a dataset job budget”
  • “/brightdata-rate-limits”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an approved Bright Data account or offline fixtures, current Bright Data documentation, and an authorized public-data collection purpose
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Measure the lane
  2. Separate controllers
  3. Apply evidence-based backoff
  4. Tune gradually

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
    • Grep
    • Write
    • Edit

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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):

    • docs.brightdata.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

    Requires an approved Bright Data account or offline fixtures, current Bright Data documentation, and an authorized public-data collection purpose

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Brightdata Rate Limits loads about 912 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 345 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~912
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.1k

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). 345 words, ~912 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/brightdata-rate-limits/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
brightdata-rate-limits
description
Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits. Use when handling 429 responses, dataset job ceilings, or uneven proxy pressure. Trigger with: "tune Bright Data concurrency", "handle Bright Data 429", "set a dataset job budget".
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Requires an approved Bright Data account or offline fixtures, current Bright Data documentation, and an authorized public-data collection purpose
version
2.0.0
argument-hint
[workload-profile]
model
inherit
effort
high
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, web-data, bright-data, rate-limits, operations

Bright Data Adaptive Capacity Control

Overview

Bright Data does not publish one global proxy request limit. Build separate controllers for proxy traffic and dataset jobs, honor current provider signals, and keep target, cost, and policy ceilings stricter than capacity.

Prerequisites

  • A workload profile with target, product, and idempotency classes
  • Observed latency, error, and provider-code samples
  • Owner-approved concurrency, byte, cost, and wall-time ceilings

Instructions

Step 1: Measure the lane

Read recent receipts and Grep for 429, Retry-After, provider error codes, active dataset jobs, per-IP concentration, and queue depth. Do not infer capacity from successful bursts alone.

Step 2: Separate controllers

Write independent limits for proxy requests, Browser API sessions, async triggers, progress polling, downloads, and delivery workers. One product's success must not raise another product's ceiling.

Step 3: Apply evidence-based backoff

Retry only idempotent transient work. Honor provider guidance, use bounded jitter, cap attempts and elapsed time, and open the circuit on policy, authentication, or data errors.

Step 4: Tune gradually

Edit one limit at a time, run an approved canary, compare throughput, error, and cost, and retain the lower limit unless the evidence and owner approve promotion.

Tool Discipline

Use Read and Grep to analyze redacted metrics and documented codes. Use Write and Edit for controller configuration, tests, and runbooks. This skill does not run live traffic or change Bright Data account limits.

Output

  • Per-lane concurrency and queue budgets
  • Retry and circuit matrix by documented failure class
  • Canary comparison with rollback threshold

Examples

If dataset triggers return a tenant-specific parallel-job error, stop launching new jobs and continue bounded progress polling for owned snapshots. If proxy traffic returns a per-IP 429, reduce pressure and review distribution rather than guessing a universal rate.

Error Handling

FailureMeaningResponse
No provider code is retained429 cause is ambiguousImprove redacted instrumentation before tuning
Retries amplify queue depthBackoff lacks admission controlOpen the circuit and drain owned work
Throughput improves but cost or error ceiling failsOptimization violates the budgetRoll back the changed limit

Resources

© 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/brightdata-rate-limits of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Brightdata Rate Limits

What does Brightdata Rate Limits do?

Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits. Brightdata Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Analyze and design Bright Data concurrency and backoff controls from observed provider signals and owned budgets instead of invented global limits.

When should I use Brightdata Rate Limits?

Brightdata Rate Limits fits situations like: handling 429 responses; dataset job ceilings; uneven proxy pressure; with: tune Bright Data concurrency.

How do I install Brightdata Rate Limits in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Brightdata Rate Limits in Codex?

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

Can I use Brightdata 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 brightdata-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/brightdata-rate-limits, .gemini/skills/brightdata-rate-limits, .github/skills/brightdata-rate-limits and .opencode/skills/brightdata-rate-limits in your project.

What does Brightdata Rate Limits need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Brightdata Rate Limits is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an approved Bright Data account or offline fixtures, current Bright Data documentation, and an authorized public-data collection purpose.

Does Brightdata Rate Limits access the network?

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

Is Brightdata 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 Brightdata Rate Limits use?

Brightdata 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 Brightdata Rate Limits use?

About 912 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 193 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Brightdata Rate Limits?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Brightdata Rate Limits: Proxy6 (VKirill/claude-lane-stack, 122 stars), Add Hosted Key (simstudioai/sim, 30k stars), Upstash Ratelimit TS (upstash/ratelimit-js, 2k stars) and Repo2skill (zhangyanxs/repo2skill, 246 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Brightdata 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.