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polling-vs-webhooks from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- MIT
Choose between pulling changes on a schedule and receiving pushed events, based on latency needs, reliability, and control. Use when deciding how to learn about changes in an external system.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Polling versus webhooks Push is efficient and unreliable; pull is wasteful and dependable. Most robust integrations use both: webhooks for latency and polling for reconciliation, because either alone has a failure mode you cannot accept. ## Method 1. **Choose by latency requirement.** If minutes are acceptable, polling is simpler and needs no public endpoint. If seconds matter, webhooks are the only option. 2. **Recognise what polling costs.** Frequent polling wastes quota and scales badly with the number of watched resources (see rate-limit-handling). 3. **Recognise what webhooks cost.** A public endpoint to secure, verify, deduplicate, and monitor, which is real work (see webhook-consumption). 4. **Use both where correctness matters.** Webhooks for timeliness and a periodic poll to catch what was missed, which is the standard pattern for anything financial. 5. **Poll incrementally.** Use cursors or modified-since filters rather than fetching everything, since full polls do not scale. 6. **Back off when nothing changes.** Adaptive intervals reduce cost substantially on quiet resources. …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/polling-vs-webhooks@sha256:9b63a2bf71e34962The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.419e522, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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