facebook-webhooks

A guide for receiving Facebook and Meta webhook messages, which are automatic HTTP requests about activity on Facebook Pages, Instagram, and Messenger. It covers the registration check and the signature used to confirm that requests came from Meta.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to complete the GET verification handshake, check X-Hub-Signature-256, and process Page feed, mentions, Instagram comments, or Messenger messages.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rejecting valid events or accepting forged ones, and explains why the initial verification request differs from normal event requests.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,214 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00061 $0.02214
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01107
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00221

Measured 3d ago against content hash 14f4c9bf8158, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

facebook-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.

skills/facebook-webhooks/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Facebook Webhooks

Facebook webhooks are delivered through the Meta Graph API and are shared by Facebook Pages, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and other Meta products. They do not follow the Standard Webhooks spec.

Using WhatsApp? The WhatsApp Business Platform shares this exact Meta mechanism but has its own events, payloads, and setup — use the dedicated whatsapp-webhooks skill. This skill covers Facebook Pages, Instagram, and Messenger. The shared handshake + X-Hub-Signature-256 algorithm is documented once, canonically, in references/verification.md.

When to Use This Skill

  • How do I receive Facebook (Meta Graph API) webhooks?
  • How do I complete the Facebook GET verification handshake (hub.challenge)?
  • How do I verify Facebook webhook signatures with X-Hub-Signature-256?
  • Why is my Facebook webhook signature verification failing?
  • How do I handle Page feed, mention, Instagram comments, or Messenger messages events?

Two Requests, Two Jobs

Facebook uses one endpoint for two different HTTP methods:

  1. GET — verification handshake (one-time, on registration). Meta sends hub.mode=subscribe, hub.verify_token, and hub.challenge as query params. If hub.verify_token matches the Verify Token you set in the App Dashboard, echo back hub.challenge as a 200 plain-text response.
  2. POST — event delivery. Meta sends a JSON body { object, entry[] } and signs it with X-Hub-Signature-256.

Verification (core)

Meta signs the raw request body with HMAC-SHA256 keyed on your App Secret and sends the digest in X-Hub-Signature-256 as sha256=<hex>. Verify over the raw bytes before JSON parsing — Meta signs an escaped-unicode form of the payload, so a re-serialized JSON string will not match. (The legacy X-Hub-Signature header carries SHA-1 — prefer the SHA-256 header.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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 · 193 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 14f4c9bf8158

Subscribe to this mod's changes

facebook-webhooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository hookdeck/webhook-skills (84 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,214 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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