Engineering
Your rate limits, paced: how actionlake protects your API quota from AI agents
An enthusiastic agent can burn a day's API quota before lunch. Ours is paced, cached and capped.
Every business system you run hands out a daily ration of API calls, and everything you operate shares it - your technicians' tools, your integrations, and now your agents. One eager loop polling for updates can starve all of it, and the first symptom is usually a human locked out of a tool mid-job.
How actionlake spends your quota
actionlake treats your quota like the scarce resource it is. Calls are paced per vendor account, under the vendor's published limit, so the rest of your tools keep their share. Writes are never cached and never retried, because a POST that might have succeeded must not be replayed. Repeat questions come out of a cache shared across your tenant and touch no quota at all. And the cost tool tells an agent how much headroom remains - so it can see the ration, not just exhaust it.
A hard cap on any key
Each key can carry a cap on the calls it may spend. A call past the cap is refused before it is sent: nothing reaches the vendor, and nothing is billed.
What leaves the building
The result is that repeat questions never leave the building. What does leave is paced and accounted for, one run per request, with the key that asked on every row.
If you have ever had a vendor throttle your whole company because one script got excited: that is the problem this page exists to end. See how the controls work and what a call costs.
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