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Rate Limit

A cap on how many API requests can be made in a window of time. Hit it and the API starts rejecting requests with a 429 status. Multi-agent systems hit rate limits constantly because every agent queries the same source — pre-computed shared state is the standard fix.

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API (Application Programming Interface)

A set of rules that lets two pieces of software talk to each other. APIs are how AI agents connect to the outside world — fetch...

Circuit Breaker

A pattern that stops calling a failing service after a threshold of errors, waits a cooldown, then probes to see if it recovere...

Pre-Computed Shared State

A pattern where data sources write results to files on a schedule, and agents read those files instead of querying sources dire...

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