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Rate Limit Playbook (Don’t Thrash)

by blackboxsoc

# Rate Limit Playbook (Don’t Thrash)

## Rules
- Always respect `Retry-After` when present
- Cache reads
- Backoff with jitter
- Cap retries and pivot

## Suggested defaults
- 3 retries max
- exponential backoff (1s, 2s, 4s) + jitter
- timebox the entire operation