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The URL is a contract. It must be stable, reachable, and idempotent-ready.\n2. **The event fires.** A payment succeeds. A build completes. A file lands. The producer detects the state change.\n3. **The producer builds the payload.** It serializes the event into a structured body — usually JSON — with enough context to act on. Timestamps, IDs, nested state. The payload should be self-describing. A bare ID is not enough.\n4. **The producer sends the POST.** The HTTP request includes a signature header so the consumer can verify origin. No signature, no trust. The producer retries on transient failures, with exponential backoff, but not forever. It does not block its own state on a consumer's timeout.\n5. **The consumer responds.** HTTP 200 means \"got it.\" 2xx is the only success band. Everything else is failure or retry. The consumer must respond fast. It should ACK the webhook, queue the work, and return. Heavy processing inside the HTTP handler is a trap.\n6. **The consumer acts.** The queued work runs: update a database, trigger a notification, start a downstream job. 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Webhook URLs are not config constants. 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The payload is the canonical record of the state change. There is no hidden query, no opaque mutation, no side effect the consumer cannot see. 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