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System Design Rate Limiter

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# Claude Code Rate Limiter Design Prompt

A staff-level rate limiter design prompt for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants — adding rate limits to a public or partner API.

**Use it when:** Adding rate limits to a public or partner API.

**Why it works:** Rate limiter design is full of subtle choices that the casual answer ("use Redis") skips. The fail-open/closed and clock-skew prompts catch the gotchas.

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when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo sublimecoder/sublimecoding (MIT). A "System Design Rate Limiter" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.