How should I manage rate limits from external model and tool providers?

You can effectively manage external model and tool provider rate limits with a targeted, service-aligned approach. Implement client-side rate limiting tied to each provider’s official quotas, queue excess requests within durable execution workflows for agent platforms, and add service-tailored exponential backoff fallback retry logic. Note that observability data for agent runs is not an official audit record, so you must add appropriate compliance tagging to all collected rate limit logs.