webhooks

The author describes a problem with AI agents making commitments without tracking fulfillment, proposes an accountability layer using a state machine, and seeks advice from others on production solutions.

The post discusses a gap in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that could be addressed by adding webhook support, allowing connected MCP servers to ping agents with events.

AgentMail is an email inbox API designed for AI agents, allowing them to have their own persistent inboxes and communicate via email with features like webhooks, threading, and integrations.

A developer describes how an AI agent wrote a Stripe handler that double-provisioned customers on webhook retries, and how using FetchSandbox MCP to simulate retries helped catch and fix the idempotency bug.

An engineer reflects on repeatedly building webhook integration systems, detailing the hidden complexity of signature verification, deduplication, buffering, and reconciliation crons, and argues that webhook notifications are not a reliable substitute for a complete ordered data log.

Hermes Agent v0.20.0 'The Herald' released with conversational voice and barge-in, grounded citations with fact-checking, outbound webhooks, desktop platform features, A2A protocol support, and major performance improvements.

A tweet promoting a quick 5-minute tutorial on understanding webhooks, aimed at developers who vibe code but lack this basic knowledge.

GitHub Actions experienced delays on May 12, 2026, due to replication lag from an internal database migration, affecting CodeQL, webhooks, and notifications. Services recovered after scaling workers.

Google introduces event-driven Webhooks for the Gemini API to reduce latency and friction for long-running jobs like Deep Research and batch processing. This feature replaces inefficient polling with push-based notifications, improving developer experience for agentic applications.

Hookdeck Outpost is an open-source outbound webhook solution for platforms.