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Why Webhooks Fail for Long-Running Autonomous Agents and How to Fix It
Webhooks time out for autonomous agents because they assume short-lived requests, but agents can be busy for minutes. Common issues include sender timeouts, duplicate deliveries from retries, and silent failures due to NAT or IP changes. The standard fix of acknowledging immediately and processing async introduces state loss and complexity.
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The article correctly identifies a real architectural mismatch, but the proposed solution (likely polling or event queues) trades one set of problems for another—developers should evaluate trade-offs carefully.
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