{"title":"The Zero-Downtime Agent: Managing API Rate Limits","region":"Global","category":"Operational","description":"Five strategies to prevent 429 errors and keep autonomous agents within rate limits.","lastUpdated":"2026-02-22","steps":["Apply jittered exponential backoff for rate-limit errors.","Route non-critical tasks to a fallback model when the primary model hits limits.","Enforce per-session token-per-minute budgets.","Batch requests when possible to reduce concurrency pressure.","Cache identical tool responses for short TTLs to reduce repeated calls."],"url":"https://checklist.day/agent-api-quota-management"}