polar-webhooks

polar-webhooks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hookdeck/webhook-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,564 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of adyen-webhooks, MIT.

A guide for receiving Polar notifications about orders, subscriptions, and checkout changes, and checking their signatures. Polar is a payments and billing service that signs each request using a shared secret.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Polar webhook handlers for paid orders, subscription changes, cancellations, and checkout updates.
Why use it?
It prevents signature failures caused by parsing the request body too early and helps keep billing events trusted.

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/polar-webhooks
Any agent
npx skills add hookdeck/webhook-skills --skill polar-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 polar-webhooks/plugin install polar-webhooks after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% 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 $0.00046 $0.01564
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00782
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00156

Measured 2d ago against content hash 656268ccb07c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polar-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 2d 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

81% identical to adyen-webhooks — 164 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/polar-webhooks/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Polar Webhooks

When to Use This Skill

  • How do I receive Polar webhooks?
  • How do I verify Polar webhook signatures?
  • How do I handle order.paid, subscription.created, or checkout.updated events?
  • Why is my Polar webhook signature verification failing?
  • Setting up a Polar webhook endpoint in organization settings

Verification (core)

Polar follows the Standard Webhooks spec. Each request carries three headers — webhook-id, webhook-timestamp, and webhook-signature — and the signature is an HMAC-SHA256, base64-encoded, over {webhook-id}.{webhook-timestamp}.{body}. Always verify against the raw request body — don't JSON.parse first.

Use Polar's official SDK helpers, which parse and verify in one call:

Node (@polar-sh/sdk):

const { validateEvent, WebhookVerificationError } = require('@polar-sh/sdk/webhooks');

try {
  // rawBody: Buffer/string of the raw HTTP body; headers: the request headers object
  const event = validateEvent(rawBody, headers, process.env.POLAR_WEBHOOK_SECRET);
  // event.type -> e.g. "order.paid"; event.data -> the resource
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof WebhookVerificationError) {
    // invalid signature -> respond 400/403
  }
}

Python (polar-sdk):

from polar_sdk.webhooks import validate_event, WebhookVerificationError

try:
    event = validate_event(body=raw_body, headers=request.headers,
                           secret=os.environ["POLAR_WEBHOOK_SECRET"])
except WebhookVerificationError:
    ...  # invalid signature -> respond 400/403

Secret gotcha: The Standard Webhooks spec expects the secret to be base64-encoded before signing. The Polar SDKs base64-encode your dashboard secret for you, so pass the secret as-is. For a manual verifier, base64-encode the secret first (see references/verification.md). Polar secrets are user-set or randomly generated — they are not whsec_-prefixed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 656268ccb07c

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polar-webhooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository hookdeck/webhook-skills (84 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,564 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to adyen-webhooks, differing in 164 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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