How do I install the Outpost skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add hookdeck/outpost in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Outpost safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Outpost?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Outpost free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free. This skill is licensed under MIT.

Who published Outpost?

hookdeck (@hookdeck) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Outpost by hookdeck — Agent Skill

Outpost

Hookdeck Outpost — open-source infrastructure for sending webhooks and events to user-preferred destinations (HTTP, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka). Use when building a SaaS platform that needs to deliver events to customers.

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Hookdeck Outpost

Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted.

When to Use Outpost

You're building a SaaS or API platform and need to send webhooks to your users
You need multi-destination support beyond HTTP webhooks (SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka)
You want self-hostable webhook delivery infrastructure
You need multi-tenant support with per-user observability
You want to offer your customers reliable, retryable event delivery

Quick Start

Managed (Hookdeck)

The fastest way to get started — Hookdeck hosts and operates Outpost for you:

Sign up at hookdeck.com
See the Send Webhooks quickstart

Self-Hosted

Run Outpost on your own infrastructure:

See the Outpost documentation
Clone from GitHub

Supported Destinations

Destination	Protocol
Webhooks	HTTP/HTTPS
Amazon SQS	AWS SQS
RabbitMQ	AMQP
Google Pub/Sub	gRPC
Amazon EventBridge	AWS EventBridge
Apache Kafka	Kafka protocol

Full Product Skills

For detailed Outpost skills:

npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost

See hookdeck/agent-skills for the complete Outpost skill, the Outpost documentation, and the GitHub repo.

Resources

Related Skills

hookdeck-event-gateway - For receiving and ingesting webhooks (the inbound counterpart)
hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks - Verify Hookdeck signatures on forwarded webhooks
webhook-handler-patterns - Handler sequence, idempotency, error handling, retry logic

---name: outpostdescription: Hookdeck Outpost — open-source infrastructure for sending webhooks and events to user-preferred destinations (HTTP, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka). Use when building a SaaS platform that needs to deliver events to customers.license: MIT--- # Hookdeck Outpost Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted. ## When to Use Outpost - You're building a SaaS or API platform and need to send webhooks to your users - You need multi-destination support beyond HTTP webhooks (SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka) - You want self-hostable webhook delivery infrastructure - You need multi-tenant support with per-user observability - You want to offer your customers reliable, retryable event delivery ## Quick Start ### Managed (Hookdeck) The fastest way to get started — Hookdeck hosts and operates Outpost for you: 1. Sign up at [hookdeck.com](https://hookdeck.com) 2. See the [Send Webhooks quickstart](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks/quickstart) ### Self-Hosted Run Outpost on your own infrastructure: 1. See the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs) 2. Clone from [GitHub](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost) ## Supported Destinations | Destination | Protocol | |-------------|----------| | Webhooks | HTTP/HTTPS | | Amazon SQS | AWS SQS | | RabbitMQ | AMQP | | Google Pub/Sub | gRPC | | Amazon EventBridge | AWS EventBridge | | Apache Kafka | Kafka protocol | ## Full Product Skills For detailed Outpost skills: ```bash npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost ``` See [hookdeck/agent-skills](https://github.com/hookdeck/agent-skills) for the complete Outpost skill, the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs), and the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost). ## Resources - [Outpost Documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs) - [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost) - [Hookdeck Send Webhooks Guide](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks) ## Related Skills - [hookdeck-event-gateway](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway) - For receiving and ingesting webhooks (the inbound counterpart) - [hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks) - Verify Hookdeck signatures on forwarded webhooks - [webhook-handler-patterns](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/webhook-handler-patterns) - Handler sequence, idempotency, error handling, retry logic

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