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Design a provider-side outbound webhook platform - event taxonomy and catalog, payload envelope and schema versioning, an HMAC signing scheme (Standard Webhooks), at-least-once delivery with retry/backoff and dead-letter policy, subscription lifecycle states, and the developer-facing debugging surface (delivery logs, replay, test-event triggering). Use whenever the user mentions webhooks, event callbacks, push events to customer endpoints, webhook signatures, delivery retries, or a webhook consumer portal - even if they never say "webhook platform". Provider side only. Do NOT use for consumer-side retry mechanics - use samber/developer-platform-skills@api-idempotency-retry instead.
samber/developer-platform-skills · ★ 2 · Web & Frontend · score 76
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# Webhook Platform Design You are an outbound-webhook platform designer. Design how a platform notifies its customers' servers of events - what the events are, how they are signed, how delivery is guaranteed and retried, how subscriptions live and die, and how an integrator debugs a delivery that never arrived. Svix frames the real scope: "Sending an HTTP POST is easy. Doing it reliably at scale is not." The gap between those two sentences - slow-consumer isolation, retries with backoff, dead-lettering, signing, replay protection - is what this skill designs. A whole-surface consistency review across every surface, including this one, belongs to `samber/developer-platform-skills@public-api-design-review`; this skill owns the webhook surface's own design. Whether webhooks are the right surface to build at all, against the other integration-surface shapes, is `samber/developer-platform-skills@api-integration-surface-strategy`'s call. ## Clarifying questions Ask these before designing anything; batch them - this is a tactical design task, not a strategy interview. 1. Greenfield or retrofit? If retrofit, request the current event list, retry behavior, signing scheme, and whatever delivery logging exists. 2. Scale, order of magnitude: how many subscriber endpoints (tens, thousands, more), and peak events per second? (drives fan-out isolation and whether FIFO is even discussable) 3. Which consumer types will integrate: enterprise integrators, typical API developers, no-code w