$npx -y skills add hookdeck/webhook-skills --skill outpostHookdeck Outpost — open-source infrastructure for sending webhooks and events to user-preferred destinations (HTTP, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka). Use when building a SaaS platform that needs to deliver events to customers.
| 1 | # Hookdeck Outpost |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted. |
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| 5 | ## When to Use Outpost |
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| 7 | - You're building a SaaS or API platform and need to send webhooks to your users |
| 8 | - You need multi-destination support beyond HTTP webhooks (SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka) |
| 9 | - You want self-hostable webhook delivery infrastructure |
| 10 | - You need multi-tenant support with per-user observability |
| 11 | - You want to offer your customers reliable, retryable event delivery |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ## Quick Start |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ### Managed (Hookdeck) |
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| 17 | The fastest way to get started — Hookdeck hosts and operates Outpost for you: |
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| 19 | 1. Sign up at [hookdeck.com](https://hookdeck.com) |
| 20 | 2. See the [Send Webhooks quickstart](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks/quickstart) |
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| 22 | ### Self-Hosted |
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| 24 | Run Outpost on your own infrastructure: |
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| 26 | 1. See the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs) |
| 27 | 2. Clone from [GitHub](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost) |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ## Supported Destinations |
| 30 | |
| 31 | | Destination | Protocol | |
| 32 | |-------------|----------| |
| 33 | | Webhooks | HTTP/HTTPS | |
| 34 | | Amazon SQS | AWS SQS | |
| 35 | | RabbitMQ | AMQP | |
| 36 | | Google Pub/Sub | gRPC | |
| 37 | | Amazon EventBridge | AWS EventBridge | |
| 38 | | Apache Kafka | Kafka protocol | |
| 39 | |
| 40 | ## Full Product Skills |
| 41 | |
| 42 | For detailed Outpost skills: |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ```bash |
| 45 | npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost |
| 46 | ``` |
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| 48 | See [hookdeck/agent-skills](https://github.com/hookdeck/agent-skills) for the complete Outpost skill, the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs), and the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost). |
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| 50 | ## Resources |
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| 52 | - [Outpost Documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs) |
| 53 | - [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost) |
| 54 | - [Hookdeck Send Webhooks Guide](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks) |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ## Related Skills |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - [hookdeck-event-gateway](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway) - For receiving and ingesting webhooks (the inbound counterpart) |
| 59 | - [hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks) - Verify Hookdeck signatures on forwarded webhooks |
| 60 | - [webhook-handler-patterns](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/webhook-handler-patterns) - Handler sequence, idempotency, error handling, retry logic |