Webhook and event lifecycle
Skill gaelic-ghost/socket/skills/webhook-and-event-lifecycle
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Design and repair secure inbound events, webhooks, interactions, retries, acknowledgements, and delivery observability for messaging and collaboration platforms.
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Webhook And Event Lifecycle
Purpose
Make inbound messaging events trustworthy, prompt, idempotent, and diagnosable. This skill owns the event boundary; it does not own application business logic, persistent conversation policy, or a platform transport implementation.
Workflow
- Read current official delivery and signature-verification documentation for the selected platform.
- Capture the platform's request signature, timestamp/replay guard, response deadline, retry policy, event ID, ordering guarantees, and rate limits.
- Verify authenticity before parsing or enqueueing work. Reject an invalid request with a descriptive operator-facing log that identifies the platform, validation stage, and likely cause without exposing secrets.
- Deduplicate on the platform event identity before side effects. Persist an explicit processing state when retries can outlive a request.
- Acknowledge on time, then execute slow work through the selected app runtime. Use platform-native deferred responses where they exist.
- Record correlation IDs, delivery outcome, retry count, and a privacy-safe error summary. Do not log raw message content or tokens by default.
Required Output
Document the request verifier, acknowledgement path, duplicate rule, retry and failure behavior, ordering assumption, response/update path, and targeted replay test. Hand service implementation to the chosen server stack skill.
Guards
- Do not use a shared webhook wrapper merely because multiple providers use HTTP.
- Do not acknowledge an event as successful before a required signature or idempotency check.
- Do not claim a webhook works without a platform test delivery, local signed fixture, or observed request trace.
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Counted across 424 of the 426 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
- use plural nouns for resource namesin 41 of 424, across 32 files
- use cursor-based pagination for large datasetsin 35 of 424, across 20 files
- include rate limit headers in responsesin 25 of 424, across 13 files
- Use kebab-case for multi-word resourcesin 23 of 424, across 13 files
- version APIs in the URL pathin 19 of 424, across 9 files
- use semantic HTTP status codesin 18 of 424, across 8 files
- verify webhook signaturesin 18 of 424, across 11 files
- use query parameters for filteringin 17 of 424, across 6 files
- use async database operationsin 14 of 424, across 7 files
- wrap successful responses in a data fieldin 13 of 424, across 3 files
- prefix sorting parameters with a hyphen for descending orderin 13 of 424, across 3 files
- set appropriate HTTP status codesin 13 of 424, across 6 files
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- read current official platform delivery and signature documentation
- capture platform signature, replay guard, deadline, and retry policy
- verify request authenticity before parsing or enqueuing work
- reject invalid requests with a descriptive operator-facing log
- deduplicate on platform event identity before side effects
- persist explicit processing state when retries outlive requests
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