Expose Haystack pipelines as webhook endpoints with Hayhooks

Turn an existing Haystack pipeline into an HTTP or MCP endpoint without building and maintaining a custom wrapper service.

Prerequisites

Python environment, Haystack pipeline definitions, hayhooks package, network access for HTTP serving, optional MCP clients

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• pip install hayhooks

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• python

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• 🖥️ Embed a Chainlit chat UI directly in Hayhooks with pip install "hayhooks[chainlit]" and hayhooks run --with-chainlit -- zero-configuration frontend with streaming, pipeline selection, an...

• 🕹️ Control Hayhooks core API endpoints through chat - deploy, undeploy, list, or run Haystack pipelines and agents by chatting with Claude Desktop, Cursor, or an...

• 📈 Trace Hayhooks lifecycle actions with OpenTelemetry (pip install "hayhooks[tracing]") for deploy/run/undeploy visibility across REST and MCP, with a /dashboard UI via hayhooks run --with-tracing-dashboard (backe...

• Source: https://github.com/deepset-ai/hayhooks

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepset-ai/hayhooks/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/hayhooks

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange