feat: add configurable rate limiting with exponential backoff

[Claude]

Pull Request

Proposed Changes

Implements configurable rate limiting to prevent workflow failures from exceeding GitHub API rate limits when processing multiple repositories.

Core Implementation

Rate Limiter Module (rate_limiter.py):

• Token bucket algorithm for smooth request distribution
• Exponential backoff on 429 responses (1s → 2s → 4s)
• Thread-safe with lock-based synchronization
• Wraps all requests library calls (GET, PUT, POST) and GraphQL queries

Configuration (defaults in parentheses):

• RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED (true) - Toggle rate limiting
• RATE_LIMIT_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND (2.0) - Max requests/second
• RATE_LIMIT_BACKOFF_FACTOR (2.0) - Retry wait multiplier
• RATE_LIMIT_MAX_RETRIES (3) - Max retry attempts

Integration Points:

• is_dependabot_security_updates_enabled()
• enable_dependabot_security_updates()
• get_global_project_id(), get_global_issue_id(), get_global_pr_id()
• link_item_to_project()

Usage Example

# Default behavior - automatically rate limited
rate_limiter = RateLimiter(requests_per_second=2.0, enabled=True)
response = rate_limiter.execute_with_backoff(requests.get, url, headers=headers)

# Disable rate limiting if needed
rate_limiter = RateLimiter(enabled=False)

Test Coverage

• 142 tests passing (13 new)
• 97% code coverage
• Validates token bucket behavior, exponential backoff timing, thread safety, and configuration parsing

Readiness Checklist

Author/Contributor

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Reviewer

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Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Rate Limiting</issue_title>
<issue_description>Would be great to implement rate limiting so users don't get failed workflow runs because it was zooming through repos too fast.

Rate limiting should be configurable and have an exponential backoff if limits are hit.</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Be sure to use best practices for implementing rate limiting.

When I refer to rate limiting, I mean to say we should limit the number of requests per second we are sending to the github api.

It should be configurable to set the amount of rate limiting and to turn it off completely. It should be on by default though.</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @claude[agent] in this section)

@zkoppert Related to https://github.com/github/github-ospo/issues/77

• Fixes Rate Limiting #13