SKILL-042 APIs, integrations, and automation Locked skill

Incoming webhooks

Verify the signature, store the raw event keyed by its id, return 200 immediately — then do the real work in the background.

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What this skill helps you build

Receive events from external providers safely — verify the signature, dedupe by event id, ack fast, and process the work asynchronously.

The production takeaway

Verify the signature, store the raw event keyed by its id, return 200 immediately — then do the real work in the background.

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Inside this skill

The full skill expands these implementation areas with decisions, edge cases, prompts, tests, and framework-specific code.

APIs, integrations, and automation
What this helps you build

A webhook receiver you can trust in production: an endpoint that accepts event callbacks from a provider Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, a partner API , proves each request really came fro

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APIs, integrations, and automation
When to use this

Use this whenever an external system needs to tell you that something happened — you don't control when the request arrives, and you can't poll fast enough. Concretely, reach for t

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APIs, integrations, and automation
The core idea

A webhook endpoint does three jobs, in this exact order, and nothing else: 1. Verify the signature. The provider signs the raw request body with a shared secret. Recompute the HMAC

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