Rate Limit Header - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A rate limit header is an HTTP response header that reports your quota usage, commonly X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset (the epoch time when the quota refills).
In CI
The GitHub API returns these headers on every response. A well-behaved workflow reads X-RateLimit-Remaining and pauses until X-RateLimit-Reset instead of hammering the API and getting HTTP 403 secondary rate-limit errors.
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