feat: implement issue #637 — [Phase 1] ADR: agent rate-limit & circuit-breaker taxonomy (decision record)

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Define the organization’s agent rate-limit and circuit-breaker policy

What Changed

• Documents a proposed five-part control model for four agent types: concurrency limits, runtime limits, cooldowns, daily budgets, and consecutive-failure recovery.
• Establishes that runs should be deferred rather than cancelled when limits are reached, avoiding stuck work caused by cancellation-based concurrency controls.
• Defines a proposed rolling five-hour token-budget breaker that pauses new Claude-backed dispatches near the usage threshold and resumes priority work as capacity returns.
• Records that GitHub and Claude do not provide the required native rate or subscription-budget controls, so future enforcement must use a public source-side gate and private token-usage telemetry.
• Sets proposed success measures and an organization-wide dispatch cost cap for follow-up implementation work; no workflows, settings, or policies are changed in this PR.

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✅ Fewer cancelled agent runs and stuck issues
✅ Reduced duplicate and uncontrolled agent dispatches
✅ Bounded Claude usage and agent fan-out

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• Documentation
  • Added an Architecture Decision Record describing safeguards for managing automated agent throughput.
  • Documented proposed limits for concurrent runs, runtime, cooldowns, daily execution budgets, and repeated-failure protection.
  • Defined monitoring, circuit-breaker behavior, enforcement boundaries, success metrics, cost controls, and remaining limitations.
  • Recorded relevant production incidents and supporting research for future implementation decisions.

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Adds a documentation-only ADR for agent rate limits. It defines controls for four agent types, documents vendor API limitations, specifies token-budget circuit-breaker behavior, and assigns enforcement responsibilities between public and private repositories.

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Agent rate-limit decision record

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scope and control taxonomy docs/initiatives/agent-rate-limits-adr.md	Defines the incident baseline, four in-scope agent types, five control dimensions, and proposed values pending sign-off.
Telemetry and circuit-breaker semantics docs/initiatives/agent-rate-limits-adr.md	Documents GitHub and Claude rate-limit surfaces and specifies rolling-window telemetry with token-budget breaker states and thresholds.
Enforcement boundary and operational criteria docs/initiatives/agent-rate-limits-adr.md	Assigns controls to public or private repositories and records success metrics, cost-cap handling, residual gaps, consequences, and references.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to edc3c

This PR adds the organization’s proposed rules for agent rate limits and circuit breakers, but several rules remain inconsistent or underspecified around trigger coverage, admission races, weekly budgets, failure classification, telemetry failures, usage measurement, and cost limits. Implementing the policy as written could allow duplicate dispatches, weaken usage protection, or enforce the wrong limits, so clarification or explicit owner acceptance is needed before merging.

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This pull request proposes an Architecture Decision Record (ADR) defining the taxonomy, mechanisms, and policies for agent rate-limiting and circuit-breaking. The feedback highlights two improvement opportunities: specifying a concrete filename for the source-side gate library to maintain consistency with existing standards, and correcting a terminology contradiction regarding circuit breaker states (open vs. closed) in the fail-safe behavior description.

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@dev-lead — the ADR is well-structured and most of it should stand, but AC #4's central conclusion is wrong, and §10 already predicted exactly how.

The document says:

If a reviewer knows of a GitHub per-workflow rate-limit feature, or a programmatic Claude endpoint that returns remaining 5-hour subscription budget, that those doc surfaces do not describe, that is the one gap this story could not close from inside CI (§10). Re-open §2 with the citation if so.

Re-opening §2 with the citation. Such an endpoint exists, and the verification was posted to #637 as a comment before this run started: #637 (comment)

The correction

GET https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage
  Authorization: Bearer <CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN>
  anthropic-beta: oauth-2025-04-20
  User-Agent: claude-code/<version>

Probed first-hand on 2026-08-20: HTTP 200 with live window state. This is the data behind Claude Code's /usage screen.

Critically, it closes the exact gap §4 identifies. The ADR correctly rules out anthropic-ratelimit-* headers on the grounds that they are "per-minute and API-key-scoped, and the org's agents run on the subscription OAuth token, whose 5-hour window these headers do not report." That reasoning is right — and this endpoint is the subscription-OAuth-scoped surface that does report it. It authenticates with the same CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN the fleet already uses.

It returns a limits[] array of { kind, group, percent, severity, resets_at, is_active }, where kind is session (the rolling 5-hour window), weekly_all (the 7-day window), or weekly_scoped (per-model). Observed values on the probe: session 3%, weekly_all 85%, plus a weekly_scoped entry at 100%/critical/active.

Requested changes

1. §2 / §4 — reverse the AC Add workflow, environment, and orchestration guidance #4 conclusion. "No native Claude surface exists" is not correct. Name this endpoint as the telemetry source of record for the token-budget breaker, citing the first-hand probe. Note that it is undocumented and unsupported (upstream requests for a supported surface: Feature request: claude usage command / API endpoint for Max subscription limits anthropics/claude-code#44328, #32796), so it must sit behind an adapter — which is what [Phase 5] Token-budget circuit breaker: pause at the configured % of the 5-hour Claude window #641 AC Add multi-agent isolation strategy using git worktrees #2 already requires.

2. Demote the derived ledger to the degraded path, don't delete it. The scripts/engine.sh rolling-window ledger you designed is sound work and should remain as the documented fallback for when the endpoint is unavailable or its shape changes. It should just no longer be the primary source, because an estimated ledger is strictly worse than an authoritative server-side percentage.

3. Prefer limits[] over the flattened five_hour / seven_day keys. It carries a server-computed severity and an is_active flag, so the gate consumes a graded signal instead of re-deriving one from a bare number. Treat the flattened keys as the fallback for older response shapes.

4. Add a rule that weekly_scoped must never trip a fleet pause. The probe caught a per-model weekly bucket at 100%/critical/active while the account-wide window was only at 85%. The correct response to scoped exhaustion is the engine's existing model-fallback chain — swap models, don't stop the fleet. Only session and weekly_all are pause-worthy. Without this stated in the ADR, Phases 5 and 6 can each get it wrong independently.

5. Record that resets_at is authoritative. The probe returned 2026-08-25T15:59:59Z for the weekly window — Tuesday ~11:00 America/Chicago — matching the maintainer's understanding without being configured anywhere. All time-until-reset arithmetic must derive from this field; no ADR-blessed cron expression, weekday, or timezone constant.

6. Add the 7-day window to the taxonomy. §7 covers only the 5-hour window. [Phase 6] Weekly-budget glide-path breaker: pause at 100 − 2×days-until-reset of the 7-day Claude window #994 (Phase 6) now adds a glide-path breaker on the 7-day window — pause at 100 − 2 × days_until_reset — so the ADR should fix the semantics for both windows, since both come from this one call.

7. §8 boundary — add the org-variable permission finding. Writing an org-level Actions variable (how a fleet-wide pause is actuated) returns 403 — must be an org admin or have the actions variables fine-grained permission for a classic token carrying repo/workflow/read:org, even when the caller is already an org admin. It needs admin:org or the fine-grained org Variables: write permission. Repo-level variables work under plain repo. This is a genuine new prerequisite, not an existing capability.

8. Record one open verification. The probe used a short-lived local OAuth access token; CI uses the long-lived claude setup-token credential. Same sk-ant-oat01- prefix, both OAuth-issued, so acceptance is likely but unproven. The ADR should state that it is verified by a dry-run in CI against the existing secret — not by minting a fresh setup-token, which risks invalidating the credential the fleet runs on.

Keep as-is

The OWASP ASI08 framing, the #402/#443/#571 baseline, the per-agent control taxonomy, the fail-open-on-telemetry-error direction (correct — an outage of an undocumented third-party endpoint must never stop the fleet), the 80% resume hysteresis, the public/private split, and the "all numbers are proposals pending human sign-off" caveat are all good and should survive this revision.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/initiatives/agent-rate-limits-adr.md`:
- Around line 103-108: Update the cooldown documentation for compliance-audit,
feature-ideation, and dev-lead so every admitted trigger path has an explicit
cooldown rule, including workflow_dispatch, issue, PR, review, comment,
check_run, repository_dispatch, and discussion triggers where applicable.
Replace any weekly-cron-only or issue-pickup-only notation with the actual
all-trigger policy, or explicitly document each excluded path.
- Around line 162-165: Update the documented max-concurrent-runs admission
design to make the hard cap atomic by adding a central reservation or lease
keyed with an idempotency key and expiry, ensuring concurrent dispatches cannot
both pass based on the same count; otherwise explicitly describe the limit as
best-effort rather than hard. Apply the same correction to the corresponding
section referenced by the comment.
- Around line 171-172: Update the “Daily execution budget” definition and the
weekly-agent budget guidance to use a rolling seven-day window for weekly
agents, or explicitly rename and describe the policy as one run per day if that
is intentional; ensure the budget value and its time window consistently express
the intended weekly behavior.
- Around line 291-302: Expand the “9.1 Success metrics” section so every metric
specifies its data source, measurement window, owner, and query definition.
Define measurable criteria for dispatch races, stuck issues, normal operation,
and backlog recovery while preserving the existing targets for cancellation,
zero-job dispatches, budget headroom, and bounded fan-out.
- Around line 231-236: The fail-open telemetry path in the token-budget breaker
is unbounded and can admit dispatches without a budget decision. Update the
telemetry and breaker design to define a bounded fallback, such as a small
unknown-state quota or short-TTL last-known value, and require an alert when the
ledger read fails; otherwise remove any claim that the token breaker protects
the budget during telemetry failure.
- Around line 173-176: Expand the “Consecutive-failure circuit breaker” section
to define which outcomes count as failures, including timeouts, cancellations,
deferred runs, retries, 429 responses, fallback success, skipped jobs, and
infrastructure failures. Specify the durable breaker state key and the ordering
or serialization rules for concurrent and retried run events so increments and
resets are deterministic.
- Around line 34-40: Update the OWASP ASI08 label in the ADR to “Cascading
Failures” at both references, preserving the surrounding explanation and links.
- Around line 304-311: Update §9.2 to describe the limit as an org-wide agentic
dispatch ceiling rather than an operational cost cap, removing cost-cap
terminology while preserving its single-source configuration and source-side
enforcement requirements.
- Around line 68-77: Update the ledger design in the surrounding ADR to
explicitly define the budget identity and measurement unit: specify the owning
account or seat, aggregation scope, included token categories, usage factors,
and conservative error bound. Describe the 90% trigger and budget-headroom
metric as local token-estimate proxies rather than authoritative Claude
subscription telemetry.
- Around line 139-154: Update the subscription-cap handling in scripts/engine.sh
so 429 responses with retry-after are classified using persisted response
context before opening the breaker. Treat generic retryable throttling as
non-terminal, and open the subscription breaker only when the context identifies
an exhausted five-hour subscription cap; do not rely on rate_limit_error alone.

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Re-submitting as a review — the earlier correction was never ingested

The fix-reviews pass (f017aa7) addressed gemini-code-assist's terminology suggestions but did not touch the substantive correction posted at 01:26Z. That comment's dispatch was cancelled in a concurrency cascade, and the retry ran intent=fix-reviews, which processes formal reviews rather than plain comments — so the correction fell through the gap. Re-filing it as a review so it lands in the path that works.

Two items. The first is the important one.

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1. AC #4's conclusion is wrong — a native surface exists (unchanged from the earlier comment)

§2/§4 conclude "no native Claude surface" reports the rolling subscription budget, and select a derived, estimated ledger in scripts/engine.sh as the source of record. There is a real, authoritative surface, verified first-hand (HTTP 200, live data, 2026-08-20):

GET https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage
  Authorization: Bearer <CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN>
  anthropic-beta: oauth-2025-04-20
  User-Agent: claude-code/<version>     # load-bearing — without it, persistent 429s

It closes exactly the gap §4 identifies. The ADR correctly rules out the anthropic-ratelimit-* headers because they are per-minute and API-key-scoped while the fleet runs on the subscription OAuth token — and this endpoint is the subscription-OAuth-scoped surface that reports that window, authenticating with the token the fleet already holds. It returns limits[] of {kind, group, percent, severity, resets_at, is_active} where kind ∈ session (5-hour), weekly_all (7-day), weekly_scoped (per-model).

Requested changes, in priority order:

1. Reverse the §2/§4 AC #4 conclusion; name this endpoint as the telemetry source of record, citing the probe. Flag it as undocumented/unsupported (anthropics/claude-code#44328, #32796) and therefore adapter-wrapped, per #641 AC #2.
2. Keep the derived ledger — demote it to the documented fallback. It is sound work; it just shouldn't be primary, since an estimate is strictly worse than an authoritative server-side percentage.
3. Prefer limits[] over the flattened five_hour/seven_day keys (it carries server-computed severity and is_active); treat the flat keys as the older-shape fallback.
4. State that weekly_scoped must never trip a fleet pause — the probe caught a per-model bucket at 100%/critical/active while the account-wide window was at 85%. Scoped exhaustion is handled by the engine's model-fallback chain. Only session and weekly_all are pause-worthy.
5. Record resets_at as authoritative for all time-until-reset arithmetic — no ADR-blessed weekday, cron, or timezone constant. (Probe returned 2026-08-25T15:59:59Z = Tuesday ~11:00 America/Chicago.)
6. Extend §7 to cover the 7-day window, not just the 5-hour one — #994 adds a glide-path breaker at 100 − 2 × days_until_reset, and both windows come from this single call.
7. §8: add that writing an org-level Actions variable needs admin:org or the fine-grained org Variables: write permission — a classic repo/workflow/read:org token gets 403 even when the caller is an org admin. Repo-level variables work under plain repo. Genuine new prerequisite.
8. Record one open verification: the probe used a short-lived local OAuth token; CI uses the long-lived claude setup-token. Acceptance is likely but unproven — verify via dry-run in CI against the existing secret, never by minting a fresh setup-token (that risks invalidating the credential the fleet runs on).

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2. Regression introduced by f017aa7 — revert the gate library filename

The commit renamed the gate library to scripts/lib/agent-limit-gate.sh. That contradicts three downstream issues, all of which specify scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh:

• #639 — "[Phase 3] scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh gate + circuit-breaker library" (the issue title itself)
• #641 — target surface: scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh (extend …)
• #994 — target surface: scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh (extend …)

Please restore agent-rate-limit.sh. Naming the file in the ADR is fine and an improvement over the vague scripts/lib/…; naming it differently from the issue that creates it is not.

While there: the fail-safe rewording in that commit is now harder to read than what it replaced. "Fails to a 'closed' (allow) state" inverts the conventional meaning — fail-open normally is the allow state. Suggest stating the behaviour directly and dropping the open/closed vocabulary: "on telemetry error the breaker allows dispatch (with a warning); on a fresh 429 + retry-after it blocks."

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OWASP ASI08 framing, the #402/#443/#571 baseline, the per-agent control taxonomy, allow-on-telemetry-error, the 80% resume hysteresis, the public/private split, and the "all numbers are proposals pending human sign-off" caveat are all good.

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Three dev-lead passes reported status=applied without applying the substantive review (the third changed a single cross-reference, §4 → §3, and reported "Changes committed and pushed"). The routing cause: the correction was first posted as a plain PR comment, whose dispatch was cancelled in a concurrency cascade, and the retry ran intent=fix-reviews, which only processes formal review threads. Re-filing it as a review still did not land it.

Applied manually in 5675668. The PR is now +486/−0 and carries dev-lead:hands-off so the agent stops churning on it.

What changed (all eight review items):

• §2.3/§2.4 + new §4.1 — AC Add workflow, environment, and orchestration guidance #4's conclusion reversed. GET /api/oauth/usage named as the telemetry source of record: probed first-hand (HTTP 200, 2026-08-20), subscription-OAuth-scoped, returns the 5-hour and 7-day windows in a single call. Records the load-bearing User-Agent header, ≥180s polling guidance, and the limits[] contract.
• Derived ledger kept, demoted to the documented degraded path — sound work, just not primary, since an estimate is strictly worse than an authoritative server-side percentage.
• §2.5 — weekly_scoped (per-model) exhaustion must never trip a fleet pause; the model-fallback chain handles it. Observed live: one model at 100%/critical while the account-wide weekly window sat at 85%.
• §4.1/§7 — resets_at is authoritative; no hardcoded weekday, cron, or timezone constant.
• §7 — 7-day glide-path trigger added alongside the 5-hour one ([Phase 6] Weekly-budget glide-path breaker: pause at 100 − 2×days-until-reset of the 7-day Claude window #994), and the fail-safe restated as behaviour (allow on telemetry error, block on a fresh 429) rather than the inverted open/closed vocabulary.
• §8.1 — regression reverted. f017aa7 renamed the gate library to agent-limit-gate.sh, contradicting [Phase 3] scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh gate + circuit-breaker library (guard-only) #639 (in its title), [Phase 5] Token-budget circuit breaker: pause at the configured % of the 5-hour Claude window #641, and [Phase 6] Weekly-budget glide-path breaker: pause at 100 − 2×days-until-reset of the 7-day Claude window #994. Restored to scripts/lib/agent-rate-limit.sh.
• §8.2 — writing an org-level Actions variable needs admin:org or the fine-grained org Variables: write permission; a repo/workflow/read:org token gets 403 even for an org admin. Genuine new prerequisite.
• §10 — the residual gap is no longer "no source exists" but "the source is undocumented," plus the unverified claude setup-token credential class (closed by a CI dry-run, never by minting a fresh token).

Structure, framing, taxonomy, and the sign-off caveats from the original draft are unchanged — that part was good work.

⚠️ The ADR's §6/§7/§9 numbers remain proposals pending human sign-off; merging this decision record does not arm any gate.

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The logic stated here contradicts the document's repeated description of a "rolling 5-hour window" (lines 38, 77, 271). The statement "utilization is monotonic within a window" is only true for a fixed window that resets at a specific time. In a true rolling window, old usage drops off as time passes, so utilization can decrease.

The presence of resets_at timestamp (§4.1, line 177-182) confirms this is a fixed window, not a rolling one.

Impact: Implementers reading "rolling window" will build logic expecting utilization to decrease over time, while this section assumes it's monotonic (fixed window). This will cause incorrect breaker resume behavior.

Fix: Either:

1. Change "rolling" to "fixed" throughout the document (lines 38, 77, 271), OR
2. Remove the "utilization is monotonic" claim and add explicit hysteresis logic (the 90%→80% resume mark mentioned in line 292-293 partially addresses this but isn't clearly connected to this section)

Suggested change

	- **Resume:** utilization is monotonic within a window, so a tripped breaker does
	not un-trip on a percentage dip; the clean resume is the window reset given by
	`resets_at`. Where a pause is actuated by a persisted switch, the actuator must
	- **Resume:** utilization is monotonic within a fixed window, so a tripped breaker does
	not un-trip on a percentage dip; the clean resume is the window reset given by
	`resets_at`. Where a pause is actuated by a persisted switch, the actuator must

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