API Rescue: Smart Retry, Rate Limits and Circuit Breakers for AI Agents

Every AI agent that calls external APIs hits the same wall: rate limits, timeouts, server errors, and transient failures. Most agents either give up immediately or hammer endpoints with naive retries that make things worse.

API Rescue gives you four battle-tested shell tools - exponential backoff with jitter, rate limit queuing, circuit breaker protection, and batch throttling - that you can drop into any agent workflow. All scripts are pure bash plus Python 3 stdlib with zero external dependencies.

Whether you are calling OpenAI, Stripe, X/Twitter, GitHub, or any rate-limited API, API Rescue ensures your agent handles failures gracefully, respects rate limits, and fails fast when a service is down instead of wasting resources on doomed requests. Includes ready-to-use commands for common APIs with their actual rate limits documented.