How to Add a Webhook Tool to Your MCP Server
By Alex Morgan
MCP tools are synchronous, but real-world agent workflows run on async events. Here's how to add a webhook tool to your MCP server so agents can listen without polling.
Hookwing Blog
Clear operating guides for delivery reliability, incident response, and production-ready webhook systems.
Webhook Rate Limiting: How to Handle It as a Sender and Receiver
By Marcus Chen
Rate limits are a two-sided problem in webhook systems. Here's how to handle 429s as a sender and protect your endpoint as a receiver, with practical patterns and code.
Webhook Fan-Out: How to Deliver One Event to Many Endpoints
By Hookwing Engineering
One incoming event, multiple consumers. Here's how webhook fan-out works, when you need it, and the patterns that hold up in production.
Webhooks vs Event Streams: How to Pick the Right Push
By Hookwing Engineering
Webhooks push events to a URL. Event streams let consumers pull at their own pace. Neither is universally better. The choice depends on who consumes and how. Here's the practical decision framework.
How to Debug Webhooks (Without Losing Your Mind)
By Hookwing Engineering
Webhooks fail silently, fire asynchronously, and vanish before you can inspect them. Here's a practical system for debugging webhook integrations in dev and production.
Webhook Dead Letter Queues: What to Do When Retries Run Out
By Hookwing Engineering
Retries handle transient failures. Dead letter queues handle everything else. How to build a DLQ that stores, alerts on, and replays failed webhook events.
How to Give Your AI Agent a Webhook Endpoint
By Hookwing Team
Give your AI agent a webhook endpoint in minutes: one API call, five-line verification, and a simple routing loop. No dashboard, no boilerplate.
How to Verify Webhook Signatures (and Why Teams Skip It)
By Hookwing Engineering
Webhook signature verification in plain terms: how HMAC-SHA256 works, a 10-line implementation, and the three mistakes that break it silently.
Webhooks Are How AI Agents Listen to the World
By Hookwing Team
Webhook Monitoring: What to Log, What to Alert On, and What to Measure
By Hookwing Engineering
Practical observability for webhook systems. Which metrics to monitor, how to structure logs, exact alert thresholds, and debugging patterns that catch 80% of production issues.
Webhook Idempotency Checklist for Teams That Ship Fast
By Hookwing Engineering
A practical, empowering checklist to prevent duplicate side effects and keep webhook consumers safe in production.
Webhook Retries That Don't Melt Your Infra
By Hookwing Engineering
Retries help, but they are only one part of webhook reliability.
Cloudflare preview ops for content teams
By Maya Chen
A practical deployment workflow for reviewing content updates safely before merge.