The original headline is: "Polling API Rate Limit? The Agent Workaround That Actually Sticks"

Short summary

Agents polling for status updates hit API rate limits within weeks because polling asks 'did anything happen?' on a fixed clock while events happen on their own. Standard workarounds treat symptoms, not the cause. The real fix is a persistent pub/sub connection—agents connect once, subscribe to topics, and receive pushed messages instantly, eliminating rate-limit exposure and architectural mismatch.

• •Fixed-interval polling wastes quota on unchanged responses and gets throttled
• •Standard workarounds (backoff, ETags, adaptive polling) are patches, not structural fixes
• •Pub/sub over a persistent connection (via tools like Pilot Protocol) eliminates rate limits entirely

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