refactor: unify rate limiting and add skip toggle

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Summary

• remove temporary simple rate limiter and switch routes to main rateLimiter
• support disabling all limits via SKIP_RATE_LIMITING
• prune unused limiters and document env option

Testing

• npm test
• npm run lint:check
• npm run type-check
• npm run format:check (fails: Code style issues found in 2 files. Run Prettier with --write to fix.)

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https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_e_689cd525e72c832784b284b8506a5164

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This pull request unifies rate limiting by removing a temporary simple rate limiter implementation and consolidating all routes to use the main rate limiter system. The PR also introduces the ability to disable all rate limiting via the SKIP_RATE_LIMITING environment variable.

• Removed the temporary rateLimiter.simple.ts file and updated routes to use the main rate limiter
• Added a skip toggle functionality that allows disabling rate limiting via environment configuration
• Cleaned up unused rate limiter definitions and documented the new environment option

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
server/routes.ts	Updated import to use main rate limiter instead of simple implementation
server/rateLimiter.ts	Added skip functionality and removed unused limiters (auth, websocket, upload, search)
server/rateLimiter.simple.ts	Removed entire temporary simple rate limiter file
server/README.md	Added documentation for the new SKIP_RATE_LIMITING environment variable
.env.example	Added example configuration for the new skip rate limiting option

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[Copilot]

The generalLimiter is missing the skip functionality that was added to other limiters. Consider adding skip: () => shouldSkipRateLimit() to ensure consistent behavior across all rate limiters.