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# 📄 Cooldown System

The `CooldownManager` provides a high-performance, thread-safe runtime caching layout to handle player action throttling across the framework ecosystem.

#### ✨ Key Features

* 💾 **Memory Efficient**: Automatically cleans up expired timestamps on lookup checks to maintain a low memory footprint.
* 🗣️ **Config-Driven Alerts**: Reads directly from `Messages.CooldownActive` with dynamic floating-point parsing (`%.1fs`) to show the remaining time.

#### 💡 Implementation Example

```java
public class SpecialAbility {

    public void execute(Player player) {
        // Cooldown duration defined in milliseconds (e.g., 5000ms = 5 seconds)
        long cooldownTime = 5000L;
        String trackingKey = "special_ability_use";

        // Check and set automatically flags the player and alerts them if on cooldown
        if (!CooldownManager.checkAndSet(player, trackingKey, cooldownTime)) {
            return; // Exit execution if the cooldown is currently active
        }

        // Proceed with your plugin logic if validation passes
        player.sendMessage("§aYou successfully activated your special ability!");
    }
}
```

```
// Check if a player has an active cooldown tracker silently
boolean active = CooldownManager.hasCooldown(player.getName(), "special_ability_use");

// Manually clear or bypass a cooldown tracker for a specific player
CooldownManager.remove(player.getName(), "special_ability_use");
```


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