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API Rate-Limit Contract Tester

Run a bounded test plan against a sandbox API and verify header semantics, retry-after behavior, and client backoff.

Target market: API providers and integration developers with test environments.

Problem snapshot

What this solves

SDKs and integrations assume documented rate-limit headers and retry timing that often differ in real edge cases.

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