August 2026 Summaries

Hookdeck has released hermes-hookdeck, an official plugin for Nous Research’s self-hosted Hermes AI agent that makes webhook-triggered agent runs more reliable through Hookdeck’s Event Gateway and a persistent local SQLite run ledger. The plugin addresses production webhook risks including duplicate deliveries, burst traffic, missed signature verification, lost events during downtime, failed runs after acknowledgement, and crashes or restarts that interrupt in-progress work. It supports verification schemes for more than 140 providers, server-side event queuing and retry behavior, durable deduplication, recovery of interrupted runs, and operator commands for monitoring, pausing, resuming, retrying, and diagnosing webhook flows. It also gives Hermes tools and a triage skill to inspect failed events, group them by error type, selectively retry recoverable failures, and report unresolved issues. By default, the Hookdeck CLI forwards events over an outbound connection to a local Hermes listener, allowing use behind NAT without exposing a public URL, while public deployments can use additional rate-limit, alerting, and issue-trigger features.

Hookdeck’s July 2026 releases introduce request replay, which creates new requests and events from existing traffic so users can backfill newly added connections, reprocess payloads under updated filters or transformations, and route requests to different sources, while differing from retries that re-run existing delivery or event entities. The platform now supports multiple full-access API keys per project for individual naming, filtering, and rotation. Outpost versions 1.0.7 and 1.1.0 add wildcard topic matching, configurable webhook system-header names, AWS SQS IAM role authentication, operator events, and dead-letter handling for stalled retries. CLI version 2.3.1 adds keyboard shortcuts for copying complete payloads, headers, or bodies, expands Event Gateway MCP filtering to match API filters, and enables noninteractive authentication for listening commands through CLI or project API keys. Event Gateway also added seven verified source integrations: Cloudinary, Volume, Statsig, Vapi, Attentive, Bunny Stream, and Tikkie.