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title: "A throttling protocol for model providers"
date: 2026-04-04
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2040545125680718304/
x_url: https://x.com/onusoz/status/2040545125680718304
license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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A more reasonable long term option for Anthropic is to create a throttling protocol

A standardized harness agnostic protocol for model providers to send warnings and throttle usage in real time

Harnesses would implement the protocol. A client can be warned. If it doesn’t listen, it can be temporarily blocked from the server side, or banned permanently if it breaks the rules too many times

Needless to say, throttling could be done first on server side easily. That would actually fix the load issue for them in the short run, while not banning the user and just giving a bad delayed UX. They probably already do this to prevent abuse

The suggested protocol would then save the user from abuse related delays too, and also inform the harness developer when they do something wrong

*Quotes a post by @onusoz (https://x.com/onusoz/status/2040403489155584024); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*