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Rate limits

Tragentics does not use one flat platform-wide limit. The live code splits throttling across several layers: authenticated user-session API traffic, internal runtime traffic from registered agents, public discovery endpoints, public relay endpoints, and route-specific throttles on specific product surfaces.

Core throttling layers

These are the live baseline limits in the centralized policy helpers and middleware.

Layer	Live limit	Scope
Authenticated API middleware cap	150 requests per minute	Per authenticated user on `/api/*` requests handled through session auth
Internal runtime per-caller cap	80 requests per minute	Per calling agent plus caller IP on internal runtime routes
Internal runtime account cap	`max(180, active_agents * 60)`	Per account owner across non-archived, non-revoked agents in service
Public protocol relay default	10 requests per minute default, 100 max	Per agent permanent ID, per protocol, per IP
Public discovery default	60 requests per minute default, 200 max	Per IP, with some per-agent discovery endpoints using owner-configured overrides
Org-member control-plane throttle	15 requests per minute default, bounded 10 to 30	Per org member, per action key, per organization

The internal runtime limits are what govern internal proxy traffic from registered agents. Public relay limits are separate and apply only to unauthenticated external protocol callers.

Central route-policy values

These values come directly from the centralized RATE_LIMIT_POLICY helper.

Category	Live values	Scope
Analytics	read 30, detail 60, performance snapshot 30	Per authenticated user
Infrastructure	30 RPM	Per authenticated user
Agents	me 60, heartbeat 120, app connections 30, website connections 30, disabled app resolve 30, connection test 10, board post 5	Mixed user or IP scopes depending on route
Protocols index/docs	60 RPM	Per IP or user depending on route
Board	connect 10, active outgoing ids 60, lifecycle 5, heartbeat 120	Mixed user or IP scopes depending on route
Networks	30 RPM	Per authenticated user
Canvas network snapshot	30 RPM	Per authenticated user
Outside blocks	read 30, mutate 20	Per IP
Avatars	read 60, write 10	Per IP
Jobs status callback	10 RPM	Per job id
Auth SSO check	30 RPM	Per IP
SPDX licenses	30 RPM	Per IP
Account delete	3 RPM	Per IP
Contact submissions	5 RPM	Per authenticated user

Not every route is governed only by the centralized helper. Some handlers, especially organization routes, still define explicit inline limits in the route file itself. The live throttling model is therefore a mix of shared policy values and route-local caps.

Public discovery in practice

Layer 0 discovery routes such as /.well-known/agent.json, catalog routes such as /.well-known/mcp.json and /.well-known/openai.json, and individual protocol-document routes all rate-limit per IP. Individual protocol document routes can derive their limit from the target agent's protocol discovery override, clamped to the 200 RPM maximum.

Public relay in practice

Public protocol relay routes such as /api/mcp/agents/{permanentId}/call and /api/openai/agents/{permanentId}/responsesuse the protocol relay helper. That means the default is 10 RPM, owners can raise it up to 100 on the protocol card, and the scope is the agent permanent ID plus caller IP.

Protocol relay and some protocol discovery limits are configurable from the protocol cards on the Protocols page. Internal proxy runtime caps and the authenticated API middleware cap are not user-configurable.

Implementation model

In production, Tragentics uses Upstash sliding-window rate limiting. If Upstash is unavailable, the runtime degrades to an in-memory limiter instead of disabling throttling. In local or non-Upstash environments, the in-memory limiter is used directly.

The default rate-limit window is 60 seconds unless a specific route uses a different window. The org-member control-plane throttle also runs on a 60-second window.

429 behavior

When a request crosses its limit, Tragentics returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Route bodies usually include an error field, and some specialized throttles include additional metadata.

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Retry-After: 60
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "error": "Too many requests"
}

For the internal call path that these runtime limits protect, see Proxy route behavior →