Rate limiting is not a dependency you drop into middleware and call it done. It's an abuse policy. Before you copy that snippet, you need to define what asset you're protecting, what abuse you're expecting, and what a false positive actually costs you.
Rate limiting isn't an npm dependency — it's an abuse policy. Before copying middleware, you need to define what asset you're protecting, what abuse pattern you expect, and what a false positive costs you. A guide with a decision matrix, real gotchas, and observability for Next.js.
Running the OWASP LLM Top 10 as a real audit is a completely different experience than reading it as a checklist. I ran it against my TypeScript agent stack with system prompts, MCP tools, and Cline — and the findings were uncomfortable.
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