Sumsub Manage Webhooks

Sumsub — Manage Client Webhooks

Lists, retrieves, creates, and updates ClientWebhook event subscriptions. Reads use /resources/api/clientWebhooks; writes use /resources/api/agent/clientWebhooks.

Endpoints

Permission required: manageClientSettings.

There is no DELETE and no /stats endpoint on the public API — use the Sumsub dashboard UI when you need to delete a webhook or view per-webhook delivery stats.

Auth — App Token + secret (sandbox only)

This skill talks to the public Sumsub API and signs each request per the authentication reference. The full how-it-works writeup lives in the sumsub-api-auth skill — read it if you hit 401 Invalid signature.

⚠️ Sandbox tokens only. Do not accept or use a production App Token here. If the user offers one, refuse and ask them to generate a sandbox pair at https://cockpit.sumsub.com/checkus/home?sbx=true (Connect Sumsub to your AI agent -> Build & configure -> Generate token). Token + secret are shown once — copy both before closing the dialog. The helper script enforces this — it rejects tokens that don't start with sbx: unless SUMSUB_ALLOW_PROD=1 is set.

If the user has already supplied credentials in conversation, reuse them; otherwise ask once before running. Never echo the secret back.

Sandbox-only scope — production webhooks must be created by a human

Because this skill only accepts sandbox App Tokens, every webhook it creates or updates lives in the sandbox workspace. Sandbox and production are separate tenants on Sumsub's side — there is no "promote to prod" path, and re-running this skill with a production token is not the right way to set up a real webhook.

When the user is ready to wire up a production webhook:

• Do not offer to do it from this skill, even if the user asks.
• Do not ask for or accept a production App Token (the script will refuse it without SUMSUB_ALLOW_PROD=1, and you should not suggest that override).
• Tell the user that the production webhook — target URL, signing secret, event subscription, custom headers — should be configured by a human directly in the Sumsub dashboard (Integrations → Webhooks, with the workspace toggle on Production). Setting up a production webhook is a security-sensitive operation (the signing secret authenticates real PII deliveries) and the audit trail should attribute it to a person.
• The right workflow is: use this skill to prototype against sandbox, capture the final spec the user wants (event list, headers, signature algorithm), then hand that spec off as plain documentation so a human can recreate it in production.

Subcommands

manage_webhooks.sh is the orchestrator:

manage_webhooks.sh list                       # GET all webhooks (table summary; capped at 50)
manage_webhooks.sh list --json                # raw JSON of all webhooks
manage_webhooks.sh get <webhookId>            # one webhook (filtered from the list)
manage_webhooks.sh create <spec.json>         # POST without id  (compact spec → ClientWebhook)
manage_webhooks.sh update <spec.json>         # POST with id     (spec MUST contain id)

create and update both call build_webhook_payload.py to expand the compact spec.

Before submitting: target must be publicly reachable

Sumsub delivers webhooks from its own infrastructure, so the target URL has to resolve and accept connections from the public internet. Common gotcha: users paste http://localhost:3000/webhook (or 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0, ::1) while developing locally. Sumsub accepts the URL at creation time but every delivery will fail — and targets like these are rejected by the skill's payload builder up front.

If the user supplies a localhost-ish URL, don't submit it. Instead, walk them through exposing the local server through a public tunnel before creating the webhook:

1. Suggest ngrok (the most common choice). On macOS: brew install ngrok/ngrok/ngrok. Other platforms: download from the link. First-time users need a free ngrok account to grab an auth token, then ngrok config add-authtoken <TOKEN> once.
2. Ask which port their local webhook receiver listens on (typically 3000 / 8080 / 4000).
3. Have them run ngrok http <port> in a separate terminal and keep it open.
4. ngrok prints a Forwarding https://<random>.ngrok-free.app -> http://localhost:<port> line. The https://...ngrok-free.app part is the public URL.
5. Append the receiver's webhook path (e.g. /webhook, /sumsub) and use the full URL as target. Then re-run the create subcommand.

Heads-up to mention: on the free ngrok plan the public URL changes every time ngrok restarts — the webhook will need to be re-updated (POST with the existing id and the new target) each session. A reserved domain (paid) or --domain=<your-subdomain> keeps it stable. Alternatives if the user prefers: Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared tunnel), Tailscale Funnel, localtunnel — same idea, same procedure.

Compact spec for create / update

# Identity (omit on create; required on update)
id: 698bfc...                  # id from a previous list / create response

# Display + addressing
name: "Production webhook"     # required (no min length but the dashboard expects something)
description: "Sends KYC events to our backend"
target: "https://example.com/sumsub/webhook"   # required — destination URL (or slack / email / telegram address depending on targetType)
targetType: http               # http | email | slack | telegram   (default: http)

# Subscription
types:                         # required — event-type strings (see "Event types" below)
  - applicantReviewed
  - applicantPending
  - applicantOnHold
  - applicantCreated
applicantType: individual      # individual | company   (omit to subscribe to both)
sourceKeys: []                 # optional — restrict to specific source keys

# Auth + delivery
secretKey: "..."               # HMAC secret used to sign payloads
signatureAlgorithm: HMAC_SHA256_HEX  # HMAC_SHA1_HEX | HMAC_SHA256_HEX | HMAC_SHA512_HEX  (default: SHA256)
headers:                       # optional extra HTTP headers added to each delivery
  - { key: "X-Source", value: "sumsub" }
  - { key: "Authorization", value: "Bearer ${MY_TOKEN}" }   # caller substitutes before sending

# Lifecycle flags
notResendFailedWebhooks: false # default false; true = no automatic retries on delivery failure

The builder validates enums (targetType, signatureAlgorithm, applicantType), rejects empty types, and wraps headers so that the key/value shape matches ClientWebhookHeader. Unknown keys pass through (escape hatch).

Event types (types[])

The OpenAPI keeps types as a free-form string[]. The names below cover the commonly-emitted Sumsub events. Unknown event types are silently accepted server-side and the webhook simply never fires — so typos are not caught by the API.

The skill forwards whatever the caller writes — no client-side validation, since Sumsub may add events faster than this list updates.

Outputs

• list — table with id, name, target, disabled, types[], applicantType, signatureAlgorithm, createdAt.
• get — the full single webhook JSON (with secretKey redacted in the output as a defensive measure).
• create / update — the persisted ClientWebhook (with server-assigned id on create) and a one-line summary.

Worked examples

• examples/basic-http.json — minimal webhook: HTTPS endpoint, four applicant-lifecycle events, SHA-256 signing.
• examples/with-headers-and-restrictions.json — broad event set scoped to a specific sourceKey, with custom HTTP headers.
• examples/legacy-sha1.json — SHA1-signed webhook, for receivers that already verify SHA1.
• examples/update-existing.json — same as basic but with id set, demonstrating the update path.

See also

• references/webhook-schema.md — full ClientWebhook schema, all enums, gotchas (secret not write-only, signing semantics).
• Sumsub docs: Webhook system, Webhook event types, Verify webhook signatures.