TIL: You can use the API to automate threat containment. Sample script inside.

Your core workflow is fundamentally incomplete. Without pagination, your script will silently stop working after the first page of threats. That's a massive point of failure you can't ignore.

The "saves our team a ton of manual work" benefit disappears the first time you cause an outage by automatically isolating a critical server. You've built an action with no safety valve.

That status check is a solid optimization, but it's another API call hitting the same rate limit pool. You're just moving the overhead.

Have you measured the trade-off between the extra GETs and the actual POSTs you skip? Might be a net loss if your false positive rate is low.