# sent-integration-starter

Sets up a production-ready Sent v3 integration: SDK setup, idempotent requests, webhook verification, and retry policies. Useful when adding Sent to an app or handling 429 and 409 errors.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2700 installs · ★ 48
- Author: sentdm
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sentdm/sent-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sent-integration-starter

## What it does

The skill organizes Sent v3 integration into four stages: client setup, idempotent sending, webhook verification, and hardening. It covers SDK configuration for TypeScript and Python. REST calls to `api.sent.dm` require an `x-api-key` header. Passing `x-profile-id` with a profile-scoped key triggers a `403` error. Configuration must fail fast at boot if credentials are missing.

Outbound mutations require an `Idempotency-Key` header between 1 and 255 characters. Sent caches this key for 24 hours. A concurrent duplicate in flight pauses up to five seconds before returning `409 CONFLICT_001`. The API returns `202` on send, which confirms acceptance rather than delivery. This is a reason to persist `message_id` right away in application storage.

No Sent SDK includes a built-in webhook verifier. The skill guides HMAC-SHA256 verification using the stripped secret and rejects timestamps older than 300 seconds. Ten delivery failures disable the webhook URL. Standard rate limits allow 200 requests per minute on a sliding window. Because rate-limit headers appear only on `429` responses, callers must pace traffic proactively instead of reacting to headers.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill sent-integration-starter -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sent-integration-starter/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill sent-integration-starter -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill sent-integration-starter -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sentdm/sent-plugin sent-integration-starter
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill sent-integration-starter -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sentdm/sent-plugin --path skills/sent-integration-starter
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentdm/sent-plugin --skill sent-integration-starter -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/sentdm/sent-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/sent-integration-starter/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- authenticate Sent v3 REST requests with `x-api-key`
- prevent duplicate message dispatches using `Idempotency-Key`
- verify incoming webhook signatures with HMAC-SHA256
- configure retry policies for `429` and `409 CONFLICT_001`
- map application logic to the 46-code error catalog

## Example prompts
- Help me set up the `@sentdm/sentdm` client and configure Idempotency-Key headers
- Build a webhook receiver for Sent with HMAC-SHA256 verification and deduplication
- Configure retry logic for Sent 429 and 409 responses according to the specification

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sent-integration-starter
description: Stands up a production-ready Sent v3 integration in an existing codebase — SDK selection and client construction, x-api-key configuration, idempotent sends, retry and rate-limit handling, the 46-code error catalog, sandbox verification, and a verified webhook receiver. Use when adding Sent to an app for the first time, choosing an SDK or framework wiring, handling 429 or 409 responses, deciding what to log, or hardening an integration before launch.
---

# Sent Integration Starter

Bring up a Sent integration in four stages: authenticate, send idempotently, receive verified events, then harden. Do not conflate them — most broken integrations pass stage one and skip stage three.

## Stage 1: client and credentials

Direct Sent v3 REST requests authenticate with the `x-api-key` header. An application proxy may accept `Authorization: Bearer` from its own callers, and the Sent MCP server uses client-managed OAuth, but neither changes the REST header sent to `api.sent.dm`. Organization keys may add `x-profile-id` to act for a child profile; a profile-scoped key that sends that header receives `403`.

| Language | Package | Client |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TypeScript | `@sentdm/sentdm` | `new SentDm({ apiKey })` |
| Python | `sentdm` (imports `sent_dm`) | `Sent(api_key=api_key)` or `AsyncSent(api_key=api_key)` |
| Go | `github.com/sentdm/sent-dm-go` | `sentdm.NewClient(option.WithAPIKey(apiKey))` |
| Java | `dm.sent:sent-java` | `SentOkHttpClient.builder().apiKey(apiKey).build()` |
| C# | `Sentdm` | `new SentClient { ApiKey = apiKey }` |
| PHP | `sentdm/sent-dm-php` | `new SentDm\Client($apiKey)` |
| Ruby | `sentdm` | `Sentdm::Client.new(api_key: api_key)` |

For generated application code, require an explicit, non-empty API key supplied by the application owner and pass it through the SDK's credential option. Inject the signing secret resolved for each webhook id into receiver helpers. Never inspect the plugin installer's environment, credential store, or MCP tokens; the plugin itself authenticates through client-managed OAuth. Multi-tenant production receivers need a secret registry keyed by webhook id.
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