Letting AI Agents Manage Your Local Tunnels
IT InstaTunnel Team Published by the InstaTunnel team | Editorial policy Quick answer Automated Localhost AI Tunnels: Pinggy Skills & Cloudflare : webhook testing answer For local webhook testing, run your app locally, expose it with a public HTTPS tunnel, and paste the stable callback URL into the provider dashboard. How do I test webhooks on localhost? Start your local server, open a public HTTPS tunnel to that port, configure the provider webhook URL, and inspect events in your local logs. Why does a stable webhook URL matter? Stable URLs prevent provider dashboards from needing manual callback updates every time you restart a tunnel. For years, the friction of exposing a local dev server to the internet sat outside the reach of AI coding assistants. You could ask an agent to write a webhook handler, but the moment you needed a public URL — for Stripe, a mobile client, a client demo — you left the chat, opened a second terminal, ran a tunneling command, copied a URL, and p...