What people actually build with Hookwing

Two integration patterns. Whether your agent pulls events or receives them in real time, the infrastructure is the same.

How it works

Pull or push — both work.

Hookwing sits between the services sending events and the agents or systems consuming them. There are two ways to integrate. Pick the one that fits your architecture.

Agent inbox

No public endpoint required.

Services send webhooks to Hookwing. Your agent polls when it's ready, even if it was offline when the event fired. Hookwing holds the events.

Stripe / GitHub / Slack → Hookwing verifies + stores → Agent polls GET /events?since=<timestamp>
  • No public URL needed. Hookwing is the inbox
  • Events persist through agent downtime or restarts
  • Full event history, replayable any time
Reliable delivery

Hookwing delivers. Retries if needed.

Hookwing receives the webhook, verifies the signature, and forwards it to your endpoint. If your agent is temporarily down, it buffers and retries with exponential backoff.

Source service → Hookwing verifies + buffers → Your endpoint → Retry if needed
  • Automatic retry with exponential backoff
  • Signature verification per provider
  • No custom retry logic to write
Examples

Common patterns

These aren't hypotheticals. They're the patterns teams and agents are running today.

PR opened → agent reviews it.

A PR opens, GitHub fires a webhook to Hookwing, your coding agent gets it and posts a review. No polling loop. No delayed response.

PR opened Hookwing Agent reviews + comments

Payment confirmed → account provisioned.

Stripe fires payment_intent.succeeded to Hookwing. Your agent provisions the account, sends the welcome email, updates the CRM. If the agent is mid-restart when the payment lands, Hookwing holds the event until it's back.

Payment succeeds Hookwing Agent provisions account + sends email

One event, multiple destinations.

One incoming event routes to your CRM agent, email agent, and analytics pipeline. Each destination retries independently. You see delivery status per leg.

Event Hookwing CRM agent Email agent Analytics

Agent A posts a result. Agent B picks it up.

Agent A finishes a task and POSTs the result to a Hookwing endpoint. Agent B polls for it when ready. No direct networking between agents, no shared message queue to manage. OpenClaw uses this pattern internally to pass work between specialized agents.

Agent A Hookwing Agent B polls

Uptime alert fires → agent investigates.

Your monitoring tool sends a webhook to Hookwing. Your agent receives it and runs a diagnostic with no polling delay and no manual triage. Standard pattern for teams running unattended agent pipelines.

Alert fires Hookwing Agent investigates
Alternatives

What building it yourself involves

If you're evaluating whether to use Hookwing or roll your own, here's an honest breakdown of what each actually requires.

DIY / AWS Hookwing
Setup IAM roles, Lambda config, SQS queues, retry logic One POST to create an endpoint
Signature verification Write per-provider (Stripe, GitHub, etc.) Built in
Retry logic Write, test, maintain Automatic. Configurable.
Event history + replay Build a log store or go without Full history, queryable, replayable
Debugging CloudWatch logs at best Payload inspector in dashboard
Free tier Nothing meaningful 10,000 events/month, no credit card
Agent access Varies, no standard REST API, API-key auth, pull or push
Cloud account required Yes No

The tradeoff is setup time and maintenance overhead, not capability. If you already have the infrastructure, you may not need us. If you're starting from scratch, we're faster.

Get started

Start with the playground. No signup needed.

Or create a free account: 10,000 events/month, no credit card.
Agents can provision programmatically via /v1/auth/signup.

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