GitHub Copilot rate limits and usage caps block work
LLM apps2 posts from 2 people2d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)Unverified
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2, newest first...Last error: 429 Provider return error" It works when it works, but will probably be flaky AF for a few days. Works well with Copilot: COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY=<OR key> \ COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 \ COPILOT_MODEL=deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 \...Hacker News comments · summarityOpen ↗Add an AGENTS.md rule for pacing bulk GitHub writes (secondary rate limit)## Problem Nothing in `AGENTS.md` governs how fast an agent may write to GitHub. The only pacing guidance is in `docs/contribution-model.md` (closing outside PRs: "a pause of a few seconds between them, in batches"). That is a design document, not loaded every session, and it...modelcontextprotocol/servers · cliffhallOpen ↗
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Evidence
2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 6 days. Mostly on modelcontextprotocol/servers, Hacker News comments. Tools named alongside: npm, Model Context Protocol, DeepSeek, OpenRouter.
Frustration Frustration 0 of 3· Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News
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Posts that state a pain and match the "rate-limits" rule about GitHub Copilot. First post Oct 12, 2026, latest Oct 17, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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GitHub Copilot rate limits and usage caps block work (2 posts)