Agent skill · data analytics · jeremylongshore
salesloft-cost-tuning
Analyze and reduce Salesloft API capacity waste by measuring endpoint cost, deep pagination, redundant polling, cache churn, and retry amplification. Use when a team is exhausting shared API capacity. Trigger with "Salesloft cost tuning", "reduce Salesloft API usage", or "Salesloft capacity waste".
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific strategies and code snippets for optimizing API usage and cost management in SalesLoft, which the AI wouldn't generate reliably on its own.
What it needs
Requires salesloft account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Salesloft API Capacity Tuning Overview This skill optimizes rate-budget consumption, not subscription pricing. It uses observed endpoint cost and business value to remove waste without losing records or hiding failures. Prerequisites Named team, integration, time window, and business owner API Logs or application metrics for endpoint, page, status, and rate headers Current synchronization and retention requirements Baseline reconciliation results Tool Discipline Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect polling schedules, page traversal, caches, and retries. Use WebFetch only for official Salesloft rate and polling guidance. Use Write or Edit after an optimization is tied to measured waste. Current Contract Salesloft currently starts with 600 cost per minute per team, subject to provider adjustment. Endpoint cost defaults to 1 but can change; measure x-ratelimit-endpoint-cost. Page indices above 100 cost more, reaching 30 points at page 501 and later. API Logs can group calls by integration, team, endpoint, response code, and rate usage. Webhooks do not replace every change feed; Salesloft documents cursor polling as the general incremental pattern. Authentication Use existing approved access to metrics and API Logs. Never create extra credentials to evade the shared team budget. Instructions 1. Measure calls and cost by team, integration, method/path, page range, status, and retry reason. 2. Rank waste from deep pages, duplicate pollers, unchanged records, retry loops, and low-value fields. 3. Replace full scans with documented filters and durable updatedat cursors where supported. 4. Coordinate schedules across integrations and reserve recovery headroom. 5. Apply one bounded change and compare cost, lag, completeness, and freshness. 6. Keep only improvements that preserve reconciliation and service objectives. 7. Document any provider limit-adjustment request separately from application optimization. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/salesloft-cost-tuning--6a0859