Outpost

Hookdeck Outpost

Outbound event delivery: publish platform events to tenants’ destinations (webhooks, queues, cloud buses—see supported destinations). Open source on GitHub; managed on Hookdeck Cloud or self-hosted.

Single source of truth: Use Hookdeck Outpost documentation for concepts, API, quickstarts, and UI guidance. This skill links there and adds agent workflow notes under references/.

Documentation index for agents

• llms.txt: https://hookdeck.com/docs/outpost/llms.txt — plain-text map of doc pages as .md URLs; fetch once when you need the full tree or many pages.
• Concepts: Tenants, destinations, topics, publish
• API reference: REST / OpenAPI; self-hosted spec file: https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost/blob/main/docs/apis/openapi.yaml
• SDKs: Overview — for TypeScript, Python, or Go, follow that language’s quickstart for correct signatures.
• Building your own UI: Guide — screen flow, BFF pattern, implementation checklists.
• Destinations / topics: Destination types · Topics and subscriptions

Quickstarts (smallest path first)

Use the official managed-Outpost walkthroughs before opening full-stack examples in this repo:

| | | |--|--| | curl (HTTP only) | Hookdeck Outpost curl quickstart | | TypeScript | TypeScript quickstart | | Python | Python quickstart | | Go | Go quickstart |

Compact link list: [references/outpost-quickstarts.md](references/outpost-quickstarts.md).

Test webhook destination URLs (README and docs)

When you need a throwaway HTTPS URL for a webhook destination (quickstarts, curl examples, “verify delivery”):

• Prefer Hookdeck Console — create a Source, copy its URL (e.g. https://hkdk.events/…), and inspect or replay deliveries in one place. This is the Hookdeck-native default for agents and humans.

Fast path for agents

1. Start with [references/outpost-scope.md](references/outpost-scope.md) to pick Quick path vs New minimal app vs Existing app.
2. If scope is ambiguous, default to the smallest quickstart-shaped artifact.
3. Fetch only the language quickstart you need (curl, TypeScript, Python, Go).
4. Use [references/outpost-verify.md](references/outpost-verify.md) before finishing.
5. Open full-stack examples only when the task clearly requires BFF/UI integration patterns.

Scope and verification (agent workflow)

Dashboard-style guidance (no {{PLACEHOLDERS}} — those stay dashboard-only):

• [references/outpost-scope.md](references/outpost-scope.md) — three-path ladder, default-to-smallest, language vs architecture, topic reconciliation, SDK vs OpenAPI / BFF pointers with links to Building your own UI anchors.
• [references/outpost-verify.md](references/outpost-verify.md) — trimmed “before you stop” checklist.

BFF / wire JSON: Authentication · Wire JSON, SDK responses, and your UI

Supported destination types

Available: Webhooks (HTTP), Hookdeck Event Gateway, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, Azure Service Bus, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ (AMQP), Kafka

Planned: AWS EventBridge

Deployment and API pointers

• Managed: Hookdeck Outpost docs and per-language quickstarts.
• Self-hosted quickstarts: Docker, Kubernetes, Railway, Configuration.
• API reference: Outpost REST / OpenAPI.
• Base URL note: Managed API base is project-specific (quickstarts currently show https://api.outpost.hookdeck.com/2025-07-01); verify live docs/project settings if unsure.

Full-stack reference examples (advanced)

Use only when the task needs realistic BFF + dashboard patterns—not for “smallest example” (use Quickstarts and llms.txt first).

Integration maps (read before opening trees):

• Next.js: [references/nextjs-saas-integration-map.md](references/nextjs-saas-integration-map.md)
• FastAPI: [references/fastapi-saas-integration-map.md](references/fastapi-saas-integration-map.md)

Treat examples as references, not copy-paste scaffolds. Prefer the user’s codebase and use maps for Outpost-specific behavior (server-only admin key, tenant mapping, BFF routes, domain publish).

| Example | Stack | Location | |---------|--------|----------| | SaaS (Next.js) | App Router + @hookdeck/outpost-sdk + dashboard UI | [examples/nextjs-saas/](examples/nextjs-saas/) — [README](examples/nextjs-saas/README.md) | | SaaS (FastAPI + React) | FastAPI BFF (httpx → Outpost) + template UI | [examples/fastapi-saas/](examples/fastapi-saas/) — [README](examples/fastapi-saas/README.md) |

Dependency and version pins live in the example manifests (package.json, pyproject.toml).

How to use the examples: Read the integration maps and README overviews first; open other files only when they match the user’s task.

Tests: npm test in nextjs-saas (Vitest); pytest test_outpost_wire.py in fastapi-saas/backend via ./scripts/test-examples.sh outpost. Next.js example uses npm.

Future skills

Destination-specific skills (outpost-webhooks, outpost-sqs, …) may be added as documentation matures.

Related skills

• hookdeck — skill router for Hookdeck products
• event-gateway — Hookdeck Event Gateway (inbound webhooks)

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: hookdeck
• Source: hookdeck/agent-skills
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://hookdeck.com/docs/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.