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API retry handler
Name the API. Get safe code for waiting, retrying and backing off when it says slow down.
API retry handler is a free AI skill for the job "Build and ship software". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · CC BY 4.0 licence · Made by sickn33
Made by sickn33. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
Code that handles an API saying slow down, without crashing your app or sending the same action twice. Name the API and you get a retry layer that is safe, bounded and easy to read. The skill first sorts each reply. Bad requests and permission errors are final and never retried. Rate limits, timeouts and server faults are retried. Next it reads the delay hints the service sends, such as the Retry-After header or a reset time, before it makes up its own wait. If there is no hint, it uses growing waits with a little random jitter and a hard cap on attempts. It also checks that repeating the action is safe.
You give it
- The API you call
- Your language
- How costly a repeated call would be
- Rate limits from its docs (optional)
You get
- Retry and backoff code
- Rules for which errors to retry
- Support for wait-time headers
- Safe handling of repeated actions
Use it when
- Your script gets 429 errors from a payment, AI or code hosting service.
- Retries sometimes create duplicate orders or messages.
- A failing service takes your whole app down with it.
- You need to respect the wait times a service sends.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.
- It works best when your AI can run code and read your project files.