Webhook Debugging with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary

A production playbook for webhook debugging in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Integrations teams

The problem

Integrations teams need webhook debugging to run repeatedly against payload samples, logs, retry history, and endpoint docs. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.

Implementation path

Expose only the MCP tools needed for webhook debugging, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For webhook debugging, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.

Tool policy

tool: webhook-debugging_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted

Run this on Argo