rate limited during `--watch`

$ can-merge --remote=source --watch && git push source && git push origin
Waiting for all checks to complete ...

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$CAN_MERGE_REPO/node_modules/@octokit/graphql/dist-node/index.js:81
      throw new GraphqlResponseError(requestOptions, headers, response.data);
            ^

GraphqlResponseError: Request failed due to following response errors:
 - API rate limit exceeded for user ID 45469.
    at $CAN_MERGE_REPO/node_modules/@octokit/graphql/dist-node/index.js:81:13
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async runQuery ($CAN_MERGE_REPO/utils/runQuery.js:9:19)
    at async watch ($CAN_MERGE_REPO/utils/watch.js:6:19) {
  request: {
    query: '\n' +
      '      {\n' +
      '        search(query: "is:pr repo:yannickcr/eslint-plugin-react sha:541ea43079 undefined", type:ISSUE, first: 100) {\n' +
      '          issueCount\n' +
      '          edges {\n' +
      '            node {\n' +
      '              ... on PullRequest {\n' +
      '              \n' +
      '        state\n' +
      '        url\n' +
      '        title\n' +
      '        number\n' +
      '        merged\n' +
      '        mergeable\n' +
      '        reviewDecision\n' +
      '        potentialMergeCommit {\n' +
      '          commitUrl\n' +
      '        }\n' +
      '        commits(last: 1) {\n' +
      '          nodes {\n' +
      '            commit {\n' +
      '              statusCheckRollup {\n' +
      '                state\n' +
      '                contexts(last: 100) {\n' +
      '                  totalCount\n' +
      '                  pageInfo {\n' +
      '                    endCursor\n' +
      '                    hasNextPage\n' +
      '                  }\n' +
      '                  nodes {\n' +
      '                    __typename\n' +
      '                    ... on CheckRun {\n' +
      '                      status\n' +
      '                      name\n' +
      '                      conclusion\n' +
      '                    }\n' +
      '                    ... on StatusContext {\n' +
      '                      state\n' +
      '                      context\n' +
      '                      description\n' +
      '                    }\n' +
      '                  }\n' +
      '                }\n' +
      '              }\n' +
      '            }\n' +
      '          }\n' +
      '        }\n' +
      '\n' +
      '              }\n' +
      '            }\n' +
      '          }\n' +
      '        }\n' +
      '      }\n' +
      '  ',
    headers: { authorization: 'token $TOKEN' }
  },
  headers: {
    'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
    'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
    connection: 'close',
    'content-encoding': 'gzip',
    'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
    'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    date: 'Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:52:00 GMT',
    'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
    server: 'GitHub.com',
    'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
    'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
    vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With',
    'x-accepted-oauth-scopes': 'repo',
    'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
    'x-frame-options': 'deny',
    'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
    'x-github-request-id': 'CB73:9DCA:76E5C:91189:61F2F7DF',
    'x-oauth-scopes': 'read:discussion, read:enterprise, read:gpg_key, read:org, read:packages, read:public_key, read:repo_hook, read:user, repo, user:email, user:follow',
    'x-ratelimit-limit': '5000',
    'x-ratelimit-remaining': '0',
    'x-ratelimit-reset': '1643314011',
    'x-ratelimit-resource': 'graphql',
    'x-ratelimit-used': '5000',
    'x-xss-protection': '0'
  },
  response: {
    errors: [
      {
        type: 'RATE_LIMITED',
        message: 'API rate limit exceeded for user ID 45469.'
      }
    ]
  },
  errors: [
    {
      type: 'RATE_LIMITED',
      message: 'API rate limit exceeded for user ID 45469.'
    }
  ],
  data: undefined
}

Action items:

• ensure the token is never outputted to the console; i nearly posted this issue containing it unredacted
• catch this kind of error and report it better
• perhaps monitor the amount of API points remaining, and use some kind of backoff algorithm to avoid eating up all the available API calls
• when a rate limit happens, perhaps don't abort the --watch, but instead try again after a much longer delay?