Webhook delivery
For general delivery, routing, retries, or production event infrastructure, use a dedicated webhook platform.
Guide 07 // choosing the boundary
KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO RUN — AND WHAT YOU NEED TO CHECK FIRST.
Webhook Boundary and Agent Preflight solve different problems: one protects a declared traffic route, while the other checks a proposed connection before action. First establish whether you need to operate a connection, or make it sufficiently declared and bounded for review.
Choose the job before choosing the tool
Different layers can work together.
A team may use a webhook or integration platform to operate a connection, while using a separate preflight step to make the initial contract, data boundary, and authority decision explicit.
Integration operation
For many SaaS or API integrations, credential management, synchronisation, or execution workflows, use an integration platform.
Agent Preflight
For a bounded review of a declared webhook or AI-agent tool connection before action, consider the Ingress Shield controlled pilot.
Delivery infrastructure and preflight
They are different layers.
Primary job
A delivery or integration platform operates an integration path. Webhook Boundary handles bounded sandbox or pre-production delivery, while Agent Preflight checks a declared connection before it is considered for operational use.
Runtime delivery
A platform may handle retries, routing, monitoring, and operational tooling. Webhook Boundary supports bounded sandbox or pre-production delivery only.
Connection changes
A platform may help configure, transform, route, or run an integration. Agent Preflight returns a bounded compatibility result or draft for human review; it cannot approve or run work.
Credentials and authority
Ingress Shield cannot access secrets, configure arbitrary destinations, sign or activate workflows, or make arbitrary network calls.
The role of a controlled preflight
Check the connection before authority widens.
Ingress Shield is designed for the moment before an integration becomes an operational commitment. It helps make the proposed source, target, route, expected format, and intended boundary explicit.
An approved AI-agent client may use the account-bound, read-only interface to inspect a proposed tool connection or workflow plan, compare safe drafts, receive a starting plan for human review, and read its own bounded result or explanation.
When a proposal crosses several declared seams, the useful result is one ordered readiness pack: what was checked, what stopped, what still fits, and the next human-review action.
It is not a replacement for a webhook delivery platform, an integration platform, or a production change-control process. It is a controlled pilot for teams that want a check before they widen authority.
A readiness pack is evidence, not an automatic release: it cannot approve, deploy, or run the connection.
- Describe the proposed source, target, route, format, inputs, outputs, and outcome.
- Use preflight to identify a contract gap or bounded correction while the connection is still a draft.
- Agree the sandbox receiver, data boundary, and secure onboarding separately.
- Use an appropriate delivery or integration platform when the connection must operate at runtime.
Compatibility is not authority.
Ingress Shield is not a general webhook platform, general integration platform, arbitrary relay, self-service destination manager, or execution API. It is not approved for business-critical live workloads and does not provide a contractual uptime guarantee or SLA.
A compatible connection check is not permission to run work, access secrets, configure arbitrary destinations, sign or activate workflows, or make arbitrary network calls.