paystack-webhooks

paystack-webhooks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hookdeck/webhook-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,632 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of adyen-webhooks, MIT.

A guide for receiving Paystack notifications about payments, transfers, refunds, subscriptions, invoices, and disputes. Paystack is an African payments platform that sends these events to an HTTP endpoint and signs the raw request body.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Paystack webhook endpoints and process successful or failed charges, transfers, refunds, subscriptions, invoices, and disputes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent payment handlers from accepting altered requests or failing verification because the body was parsed before checking its signature.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin paystack-webhooks/plugin install paystack-webhooks after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,632 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 80% 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 $0.00056 $0.01632
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured yesterday against content hash 92e46acbba81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paystack-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 yesterday.

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

80% identical to adyen-webhooks — 168 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/paystack-webhooks/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paystack Webhooks

Paystack is an African payments platform. It notifies your application of payment lifecycle events (charges, transfers, refunds, subscriptions, invoices, disputes) by sending an HTTP POST webhook with a JSON payload to your endpoint.

When to Use This Skill

  • How do I receive Paystack webhooks?
  • How do I verify the x-paystack-signature header?
  • Why is my Paystack webhook signature verification failing?
  • How do I handle charge.success, transfer.success, or subscription.create events?
  • Understanding Paystack event types and payload structure

Verification (core)

Paystack signs each webhook with HMAC-SHA512 over the raw request body, hex-encoded, in the x-paystack-signature header. The key is your Paystack secret key (sk_test_… / sk_live_…) — the same key you use for API calls. Verify the raw body — do not JSON.parse before verifying.

The official Paystack SDKs are general API clients with no webhook verification helper, so verify manually. In Node.js (Express, Next.js):

const crypto = require('crypto');

// rawBody: the raw HTTP body as a string/Buffer (NOT parsed JSON)
// signature: value of the x-paystack-signature header
// secret: PAYSTACK_SECRET_KEY (sk_test_… / sk_live_…)
function verifyPaystackWebhook(rawBody, signature, secret) {
  if (!signature) return false;
  const expected = crypto.createHmac('sha512', secret).update(rawBody).digest('hex');
  try {
    return crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(signature), Buffer.from(expected));
  } catch {
    return false; // length mismatch → invalid
  }
}

In Python (FastAPI):

import hmac, hashlib
expected = hmac.new(secret.encode(), raw_body, hashlib.sha512).hexdigest()
is_valid = hmac.compare_digest(expected, signature_header)

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. yesterday First seen · 141 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 92e46acbba81

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paystack-webhooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository hookdeck/webhook-skills (84 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,632 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to adyen-webhooks, differing in 168 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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