Service Account Rate Limits: 15+ Minutes Block, No Backoff Duration Shown

1Password rate‑limiting is the kind of "enterprise security feature" that makes you want to take your laptop, walk into the sea, and let the tide solve your problems

You buy the secrets management control plane (the thing that's supposed to be the adult supervision for autonomous agents) and it turns into a bouncer at your own front door going:

 

"Whoa, whoa, mate, too many requests… come back later." 

Congratulations -- your "secure mediation layer" just turned into a chaos generator that makes your agent look incompetent and your infrastructure tool

The one job is: **be boring under pressure**.Not "be a surprise traffic cop when the user is already dealing with rate limits somewhere else." 

When you rate-limit the credential plane, you're not protecting me -- you're stranding me mid‑operation with a half‑built robot and a pile of broken glass.

Rate limits are fine. But if you're going to throttle, at least

• give a real retry-after
• make failures explicit and atomic
• don't turn normal automation into an improv comedy about authorization headers.

Right now it's less "security" and more "a seatbelt that randomly punches you in the throat.

Look at what Doppler offers

Action                                  Doppler                                                       1Password 

Read Requests               240 to 480 per minute                       1,000 per hour
Write Requests              60 to 120 per minute                           100 per hour

Daily Hard Cap             None (Usage-based)                        1,000 requests per 24 hoursScopePer                                                                                                                         Project/EnvironmentPer 1Password                                                                                                                               Account

I hate to say it but I might have to unlearn all my op command line knowledge and move to Doppler