auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust

auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 194 tokens per session (2,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for checking trust in both incoming and outgoing webhooks. A webhook is an HTTP message from another service; the guide checks whether incoming messages are authentic and whether outgoing requests can be steered to private systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review webhook signatures, the exact signed data, timing-safe comparisons, and server-side requests to caller-supplied URLs.
Why use it?
Without signature verification, anyone may forge events, while an unrestricted callback URL can make the server access internal addresses that outsiders cannot reach.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review webhook signatures, the exact signed data, timing-safe comparisons, and server-side requests to caller-supplied URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust
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.

Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00194 $0.02170
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00868
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00217

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2ea27fb5cabd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust 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 1mo ago.

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/auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing webhook authenticity and callback trust: proving the caller and pinning the target

A webhook is a trust boundary in two directions and both are easy to get wrong. Inbound, an internet caller posts a payload and the handler acts on it, provisioning access or crediting a balance, as if it came from the real sender; the only thing separating the real sender from anyone is a signature check that is often absent, compared unsafely, computed over the wrong bytes, or thrown away. Outbound, the same systems fetch a URL the caller supplied, a callback target or an import link, and a server-side request to an internal address reaches things the internet cannot. You find both by tracing the inbound request to the action it drives and the caller-supplied URL to the request it makes, and asking what proof or restriction stands between.

When to use

  • A handler receives a webhook or callback and performs a state change based on its payload.
  • The application fetches a URL that a user registered or supplied, for a callback, import, preview, or discovery.
  • You want to know whether an unauthenticated caller can forge an event or steer a server-side request inward.

Scope check

Send forged events or callback URLs only to systems you own or are authorized to test, and prove internal reach only against infrastructure in scope. A working webhook forgery or a server-side request to internal services can move money or expose credentials, so coordinate. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Map inbound handlers and outbound fetches. Inventory the endpoints that receive a webhook and act on it, and the places the server fetches a caller-influenced URL. For each inbound handler, note what action it drives; for each outbound fetch, note whether the URL comes from user input. These are the two sinks the rest of the loop reasons about.

  2. Check that inbound verification exists and is enforced. The handler must verify a signature over the payload with a server-held secret before it acts. The bug is a handler that never references the secret, or that computes a verification result and then proceeds regardless, or that swallows a verification error and falls through to processing. A result that is not gated on is not a check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 2ea27fb5cabd

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auditing-webhook-authenticity-and-callback-trust is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 2,170 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.

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