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AI API Cost Firewall & Rate Limiter for Gemini CLI

io.github.ansarii/mcp-rate-limiter

Token guard and rate limiter preventing runaway API cost spikes for OpenAI and Anthropic.

client:Gemini CLI transport:streamable-http

Install AI API Cost Firewall & Rate Limiter in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-rate-limiter": {
      "httpUrl": "https://neon_innovation_lab--mcp-rate-limiter.apify.actor/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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