Agent skill · software engineering · jeremylongshore
assemblyai-rate-limits
Analyze and control AssemblyAI account request limits, concurrency, backoff, and admission queues. Use when handling 429s or planning throughput. Trigger with "AssemblyAI rate limit", "AssemblyAI concurrency", or "AssemblyAI backoff".
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific implementation patterns for handling AssemblyAI rate limits and concurrency management that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires assemblyai, p-queue installed locally. Requires assemblyai account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
AssemblyAI Capacity and Retry Control Overview Control capacity with explicit account limits, queues, and retry budgets. Keep data, credentials, spend, and replay decisions separately governed. Prerequisites The target repository or integration path and the requested operator outcome. The AssemblyAI project, environment, region, data classification, and accountable owner. Current first-party documentation plus credentials only for a narrowly approved live check. Current Contract AssemblyAI documents 20,000 API requests per five minutes plus operation-specific concurrency limits. Limits apply at account level; project keys mirror capacity rather than multiply it. Actual concurrency and autoscaling are account-specific, so use current dashboard and documentation evidence. Authentication For live work, inject ASSEMBLYAIAPIKEY from an approved secret manager and send the raw value only in the AssemblyAI Authorization header to the configured first-party host. Never print, commit, place in a URL, or expose it to an untrusted client. Callback secrets and temporary streaming tokens are separate credentials. Instructions 1. Inventory submissions, polls, callbacks, gateway calls, and streaming concurrency. 2. Record current account limits and observed headers. 3. Allocate separate bounded pools by operation class. 4. Prefer callbacks to aggressive polling and use durable admission queues. 5. Honor Retry-After or capped exponential backoff with jitter. 6. Reconcile transcript IDs before retrying submission and alert on saturation. Tool Discipline Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect repository code, configuration, fixtures, and evidence. Use Write and Edit only for approved implementation or documentation changes. Do not call AssemblyAI, upload audio, open a streaming session, mint a token, replay a callback, deploy, rotate a key, or delete a transcript merely because this skill was invoked. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/assemblyai-rate-limits--26a852