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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- `getRateLimitStatus` JSON-RPC/CLI command returning the current rate-limit state for the account (active flag, `retryAfterSeconds`, `challengeToken`, `expiresAtEpochSeconds`). Useful for admin UIs, monitoring, and clients that want to query current state without triggering a send.
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Send message results now surface server-advised retry time for plain rate-limit (HTTP 413) failures, not only for proof-required challenges. The `retryAfterSeconds` field in JSON-RPC `SendMessageResult` is populated whenever the server sends a `Retry-After` header. The canonical way to distinguish proof-required failures remains `token != null`. Text output includes "retry after N seconds" when known.
diff --git a/man/signal-cli.1.adoc b/man/signal-cli.1.adoc
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@@ -1119,6 +1119,20 @@ The challenge token from the failed send attempt.
 *--captcha* CAPTCHA::
 The captcha result, starting with signalcaptcha://
 
+=== getRateLimitStatus
+
+Return the current rate-limit state for this account, or an inactive status if no rate limit is active.
+
+State is tracked from observed send results: the status becomes active when a send fails with a rate-limit error, clears after a successful `submitRateLimitChallenge`, and auto-expires when the server-advised retry-after deadline passes.
+
+With JSON output the response has the following fields:
+
+- `active`: boolean, true if a rate-limit window is currently active
+- `proofRequired`: boolean, true if a captcha challenge must be solved via `submitRateLimitChallenge`
+- `retryAfterSeconds`: seconds remaining until the limit expires (omitted when `active` is false)
+- `challengeToken`: the challenge token to pass to `submitRateLimitChallenge` (only present when `proofRequired` is true)
+- `expiresAtEpochSeconds`: Unix timestamp when the rate-limit window expires (omitted when `active` is false)
+
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