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What to do when a tool fails, an API hits a rate limit, or a site blocks scraping.
Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets.
Install Serpapi Rate Limits
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limits --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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/serpapi-rate-limits .claude/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .claude/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limitsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limits --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits .agents/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .agents/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limits --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits .cursor/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .cursor/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git --path skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limits --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits .gemini/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .gemini/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limitsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits .github/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .github/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-rate-limits --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits .opencode/skills/serpapi-rate-limits && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "serpapi-rate-limits" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits into .opencode/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-rate-limits", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
serpapi-rate-limits- GitHub stars
- 2.8k
- Token cost
- ~1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 397 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 3,342
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets.
- Works in 7 steps: Enumerate every producer, schedule,… → Read current account capacity and… → Reserve headroom for interactive and… → …
- Preventing 429s
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Tool Discipline and Current Contract, plus 7 more sections
- Needs SERPAPI_KEY
What it does
Serpapi Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets. Use when preventing 429s or coordinating search workers. Trigger with "configure SerpAPI rate limits".
Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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; capacity checks require account authorization and production concurrency changes require operator approval
It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Rate limiting. It works with SerpApi. 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
- Preventing 429s
- Coordinating search workers
- With configure SerpAPI rate limits
Example prompts
- “configure SerpAPI rate limits”
- “/serpapi-rate-limits”
Requirements
- Python 3
- A credential in SERPAPI_KEY
- Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; capacity checks require account authorization and production concurrency changes require operator approval
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit, Bash(python3:*)
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Enumerate every producer, schedule, priority, concurrency setting, retry policy, and credential-sharing boundary.
- Read current account capacity and renewal facts from Account API; treat configured limits as refreshable state.
- Reserve headroom for interactive and incident traffic and translate the remaining capacity into per-worker admission budgets.
- Apply a shared concurrency limiter and queue; reject or defer low-priority work before sending excess requests.
- On 429, pause new admissions, refresh Account API, then classify throughput exhaustion versus search exhaustion.
- Retry only when the classification and reset policy justify it; cap attempts and add jitter to avoid synchronized bursts.
- Load-test with a fake client, canary below the account ceiling, and alert on capacity burn rate and sustained 429s.
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:
ReadGlobGrepWebFetchWriteEditBash(python3:*)
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).
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):
serpapi.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
SERPAPI_KEY
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; capacity checks require account authorization and production concurrency changes require operator approval
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Context cost
Serpapi Rate Limits loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 397 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 397 words, ~1,003 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/serpapi-rate-limits/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- serpapi-rate-limits
- description
- Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets. Use when preventing 429s or coordinating search workers. Trigger with "configure SerpAPI rate limits".
- allowed-tools
- Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit, Bash(python3:*)
- compatibility
- Designed for Claude Code; capacity checks require account authorization and production concurrency changes require operator approval
- argument-hint
- [environment] [worker-count]
- version
- 1.6.0
- author
- Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
- license
- MIT
- tags
- saas, serpapi, rate-limits, quotas, reliability
- model
- inherit
- effort
- high
SerpAPI Capacity and Rate-Limit Control
Overview
Use the account's live contract as the source of truth instead of embedding plan names or numeric limits in code.
Prerequisites
- Workload arrival rate, burst size, latency objective, search budget, and job priority
- Access to the Account API and ownership of all workers sharing the key
- Metrics for attempts, successes, cached results, 429s, latency, and searches left
Tool Discipline
Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inventory producers and retry loops, WebFetch to verify current Account API and status semantics, Write or Edit for admission controls and observability, and Bash(python3:*) for an approved capacity check or load simulation.
Current Contract
Account API returns fields including plan_searches_left, total_searches_left, this_hour_searches, and account_rate_limit_per_hour. HTTP 429 can mean the hourly throughput limit was exceeded or the account ran out of searches, so the response alone does not identify the remedy.
Authentication
Use a server-side SERPAPI_KEY for Account API and search calls. Centralize capacity across every workload sharing that credential; do not expose account fields or the key through a public health endpoint.
Instructions
- Enumerate every producer, schedule, priority, concurrency setting, retry policy, and credential-sharing boundary.
- Read current account capacity and renewal facts from Account API; treat configured limits as refreshable state.
- Reserve headroom for interactive and incident traffic and translate the remaining capacity into per-worker admission budgets.
- Apply a shared concurrency limiter and queue; reject or defer low-priority work before sending excess requests.
- On 429, pause new admissions, refresh Account API, then classify throughput exhaustion versus search exhaustion.
- Retry only when the classification and reset policy justify it; cap attempts and add jitter to avoid synchronized bursts.
- Load-test with a fake client, canary below the account ceiling, and alert on capacity burn rate and sustained 429s.
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Output
Return the producer inventory, live capacity snapshot, admission and concurrency budgets, 429 decision tree, retry policy, test evidence, alerts, and rollback owner.
Error Handling
| Condition | Response |
|---|---|
| Account API unavailable | Fail closed to a conservative cached budget with an expiry. |
| Throughput exhausted | Pause and drain; do not amplify with immediate retries. |
| Searches exhausted | Stop allowance-consuming work and route to the account owner. |
| Multiple uncoordinated workers | Introduce a shared limiter before increasing parallelism. |
Example
account = client.account()
hourly_limit = int(account["account_rate_limit_per_hour"])
used_this_hour = int(account["this_hour_searches"])
headroom = max(0, hourly_limit - used_this_hour)
admission_budget = max(0, int(headroom * 0.8)) # reserve 20% for priority trafficResources
Next Steps
Review the live capacity at renewal and whenever a new worker or search product begins sharing the account.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287
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Questions about Serpapi Rate Limits
What does Serpapi Rate Limits do?
Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets. Serpapi Rate Limits is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Discover SerpAPI account throughput and allowance dynamically, then enforce admission, concurrency, and retry budgets.
When should I use Serpapi Rate Limits?
Serpapi Rate Limits fits situations like: preventing 429s; coordinating search workers; with configure SerpAPI rate limits.
How do I install Serpapi Rate Limits in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/serpapi-rate-limits in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Serpapi Rate Limits in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-rate-limits -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/serpapi-rate-limits in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/serpapi-rate-limits in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Serpapi 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 serpapi-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/serpapi-rate-limits, .gemini/skills/serpapi-rate-limits, .github/skills/serpapi-rate-limits and .opencode/skills/serpapi-rate-limits in your project.
What does Serpapi Rate Limits need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Serpapi Rate Limits needs credentials named SERPAPI_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in SERPAPI_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit, Bash(python3:*). Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; capacity checks require account authorization and production concurrency changes require operator approval.
Does Serpapi Rate Limits access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: serpapi.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Serpapi 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 Serpapi Rate Limits use?
Serpapi 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 Serpapi Rate Limits use?
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Serpapi Rate Limits?
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Who maintains Serpapi 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.