# How do you process asynchronous tasks today?

> Source: <https://meerkatagents.com/>
> Published: 2026-06-22 04:07:07+00:00

Open source API for developers who need agents to monitor links, track deliveries, and report findings — without building schedulers, webhook plumbing, or LLM tool loops. Results POST to your endpoint.

Self-host anywhere · Run on the stack you already ship

01 · The primitive

Every product that watches the world rebuilds the same stack: schedulers, LLM tool loops, page diffing, webhook retries. Meerkat collapses that into a single open source resource.

02 · Lifecycle

```
POST /api/v1/tasks
  description: "watch URL"
  input_params: {...}
  output_webhook: "/hook"
providers:
  anthropic | openai
  openrouter | grok
key: encrypted at rest
agent.execute()
→ on schedule
→ on demand
→ change detection
POST your-app.com/hook
  signed: hmac-sha256
  retries: exponential
  status: 200 ✓
```

06 · Architecture

A task moves through three actors. You register it, Meerkat schedules and orchestrates, an LLM (your key) executes, and a signed webhook lands back at your endpoint.

03 · Self-host

Self-host Meerkat with the same REST API as Cloud. You run Postgres and workers; users connect their own LLM keys. MIT licensed, no vendor lock-in.

04 · Run it your way

Same open source codebase. Same API. Pick the operating model that fits your team.

05 · BYOK

Meerkat never resells AI tokens. Each account connects an encrypted API key. Model costs go to your provider; Meerkat charges only for scheduling, execution, and webhooks.

`claude-sonnet-4-20250514`

`gpt-4o-mini`

`meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free`

`grok-3-mini`

07 · In production

Drop in DHL, FedEx, or UPS URLs. Meerkat polls, diffs, and webhooks only when the state actually moves.

Price drops, restocks, availability shifts — converted into compact JSON your app can react to in one route.

Per-run snapshots are diffed against history. You get a summary of what changed, not an HTML payload to parse.

Fire a single task for research, scraping, or extraction. Marked complete after the webhook lands.

08 · API surface

JSON in, JSON out. Bearer auth. Idempotent retries. Signed webhooks. The whole surface fits on one screen — identical between self-host and Cloud.

`/api/v1/signup`

Create account + API key
`/api/v1/tasks`

Register a task — recurring or one_off
`/api/v1/tasks/:id/run`

Trigger an on-demand run
`/api/v1/tasks/:id/runs`

Stream execution history
`/api/v1/tasks/:id/events`

Audit log + webhook deliveries
`/api/v1/tasks/:id/pause`

Pause a recurring schedule
$ meerkat init

Sign up free, connect your LLM key, and ship your first webhook in under five minutes. Or deploy the open source version yourself — same API, your infrastructure.