ashby-webhooks

ashby-webhooks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hookdeck/webhook-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,474 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of adyen-webhooks, MIT.

A guide for receiving and checking Ashby webhooks, which are automatic messages from the Ashby recruiting platform about events such as applications, hires, interviews, and candidate-stage changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or debugging an Ashby webhook endpoint, checking the Ashby-Signature header, or responding to application, hiring, interview, and candidate-stage events.
Why use it?
It explains how to verify that webhook messages really came from Ashby and how to read the event name correctly, avoiding rejected or incorrectly handled recruiting updates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hookdeck/webhook-skills/ashby-webhooks
Any agent
npx skills add hookdeck/webhook-skills --skill ashby-webhooks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,474 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 83% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.01474
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00147

Measured 3d ago against content hash db2690fa3942, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ashby-webhooks scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (examples/express/src/index.js, examples/express/test/webhook.test.js, examples/fastapi/main.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to adyen-webhooks — 167 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ashby-webhooks/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ashby Webhooks

When to Use This Skill

  • How do I receive Ashby webhooks?
  • How do I verify the Ashby-Signature header?
  • How do I handle applicationSubmit, candidateHire, or interviewScheduleCreate events?
  • Why is my Ashby webhook signature verification failing?

Verification (core)

Ashby signs the raw request body with HMAC-SHA256 keyed on your per-webhook secret token and sends the digest in the Ashby-Signature header formatted as sha256=<hex>. There is no official SDK, so verify manually: compute the HMAC over the raw body (before JSON parsing) and compare the hex digest timing-safe.

The event name is in the body, not a header — every payload is { "action": "<eventName>", "data": {...} }.

Node:

const crypto = require('crypto');

function verifyAshbyWebhook(rawBody, signatureHeader, secret) {
  const [algo, sig] = (signatureHeader || '').split('=');
  if (algo !== 'sha256' || !sig) return false;
  const expected = crypto.createHmac('sha256', secret).update(rawBody).digest('hex');
  try {
    return crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(sig, 'hex'), Buffer.from(expected, 'hex'));
  } catch {
    return false;
  }
}

Python:

import hmac, hashlib

def verify_ashby_webhook(raw_body: bytes, signature_header: str, secret: str) -> bool:
    algo, _, sig = (signature_header or "").partition("=")
    if algo != "sha256" or not sig:
        return False
    expected = hmac.new(secret.encode(), raw_body, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
    return hmac.compare_digest(sig, expected)

For complete handlers with route wiring, event dispatch, and tests, see:

Common Event Types

The action field carries the event name (camelCase, no dot notation).

Event (action) Triggered When
ping Test event sent when a webhook is created or edited
applicationSubmit A candidate submits an application
applicationUpdate An application changes (stage, status, fields)
candidateHire A candidate is marked hired
candidateStageChange A candidate moves to a new interview stage
interviewScheduleCreate An interview schedule is created
offerCreate An offer is created

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 140 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A db2690fa3942

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ashby-webhooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository hookdeck/webhook-skills (84 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,474 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to adyen-webhooks, differing in 167 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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