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Sync response mode: a channel can hold the webhook sender's request until your local server answers, then return that response to the sender. Unlocks tool-call webhooks from voice and agent platforms (Vapi, ElevenLabs server tools) and GET verification challenges (Meta/WhatsApp hub.challenge).

  • Schema: channels.response_mode (async default | sync), channels.sync_timeout_ms (1–100 s, default 25 s). Migration 0001_channel_response_mode.sql.
  • Relay (relay/src/sync.ts, channel-do.ts, index.ts): sync intake stores the event, registers a wait in the channel DO before waking executors, returns localhost's status/headers (hop-by-hop + framing dropped)/body with X-BridgeHook-Event-Id. Timeout → 504, event stays queued; unreachable server → 502. Early answers cached 120 s so a fast executor never misses its waiter. Sync channels forward GET/HEAD on channel hosts, relay/<id> and /hook/<id>; async GET keeps the explanation page. /hook/:id/response sends the full reply to the DO only for sync channels and awaits it.
  • API: responseMode/syncTimeoutMs on POST /api/channels, PATCH /api/me/channels/:id, channel info and /api/me/channels.
  • Dashboard: Channels page "Reply" control (202 now / your server's reply) + timeout picker + explanation (extension/CLI, or CORS for no-install mode).
  • Docs: Relay API sync section.

Verification

  • Unit: 12 new tests (sync.test.ts: waiters, early cache, TTL, timeouts, clamping, header filtering, response building); relay 58/58.
  • Real extension in Chromium against wrangler dev + local D1, 18/18: async default 202; PATCH to sync; tool call returns localhost's 201 + JSON body + headers in ~1.5 s; GET hub.challenge echoed (query reached localhost); crashing handler → 502; executor offline → 504 after the 3 s timeout and the event is still delivered when the browser returns; back to async restores 202; async GET explains the URL.
  • Regression: channel-host probe 18/18, auth e2e 16/16, offline backlog e2e (40 events drained in 1.8 s) all pass.
  • Dashboard clicked through in Chromium (6/6): toggle switches the relay to sync, timeout picker saves, state survives reload; screenshots checked.
  • pnpm -r typecheck, pnpm lint, web + docs builds (GitHub Actions cannot start: billing lock).

Deploy: apply migration 0001 remotely before wrangler deploy.

Closes HAL-2403

Summary by Sourcery

Enable channels to return local server responses synchronously to webhook senders while retaining asynchronous delivery by default.

New Features:

  • Add configurable synchronous webhook responses that return the local server’s status, headers, and body to webhook senders, including GET/HEAD verification requests.
  • Expose response mode and timeout settings through channel APIs and the dashboard.
  • Document synchronous relay response behavior and configuration.

Bug Fixes:

  • Preserve queued events and provide explicit gateway errors when local execution times out or cannot be reached.
  • Prevent unsafe, hop-by-hop, framing, and cookie headers from being propagated in synchronous responses.

Enhancements:

  • Add per-channel Durable Object coordination for response waiters, early-result caching, and timeout handling.
  • Forward query strings and support channel-host restrictions and CORS behavior for synchronous responses.

Build:

  • Add the channel response mode and timeout database migration.

Deployment:

  • Require applying the new channel response mode migration before deployment.

Documentation:

  • Add synchronous response mode usage, configuration, and example verification-challenge documentation to the Relay API guide.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for synchronous waiters, timeouts, early responses, header filtering, response construction, and safety behavior.

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  • New Features
    • Channels can now use synchronous webhook responses, waiting for the local server and forwarding its status, headers, and body. Asynchronous responses remain the default.
    • Configure the synchronous response timeout from channel settings. Timed-out requests return a gateway timeout, while requests that cannot reach the local server return a bad gateway response.
    • Synchronous channels support GET verification challenges.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance and examples for configuring synchronous responses and handling verification challenges.

…nder

Voice and agent platforms use the webhook's reply mid-conversation (Vapi
tool calls and assistant requests, ElevenLabs server tools), and some
providers verify a URL with a GET challenge. BridgeHook answered every
webhook 202 at once, so none of those could be tested.

- Channels get response_mode (async default, sync) and sync_timeout_ms
  (1-100 s, default 25 s); migration 0001; set on create or PATCH.
- Sync intake stores the event, registers a wait in the channel's Durable
  Object before waking executors, and returns localhost's status, headers
  (minus hop-by-hop and framing) and body, tagged X-BridgeHook-Event-Id.
  Timeout is 504 and the event stays queued; an unreachable server is 502.
  Early answers are kept briefly so a fast executor cannot miss its waiter.
- Sync channels forward GET and HEAD (verification handshakes) on channel
  hosts, relay/<id> and /hook/<id>; async channels keep GET as the
  explanation page.
- /hook/:id/response hands the full reply to the channel DO only for sync
  channels, and awaits it so the sender is answered first.
- Dashboard Channels page: Reply control (202 now / your server's reply)
  with a timeout picker and a note on what sync needs.
- Relay API docs describe sync mode.
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Channels now support async and sync response modes with configurable sync timeouts. In sync mode, webhook intake waits for an executor response and returns it to the sender, or returns a timeout response. Channel management and API documentation include the new settings and behavior.

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Synchronous webhook response flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persist and expose channel settings
packages/shared/src/db/schema.ts, relay/migrations/*, relay/src/index.ts, relay/src/routes/me.ts, apps/web/src/lib/me-api.ts
The channel schema and migration add response mode and timeout columns. Channel creation, read, and PATCH APIs validate, store, and return these settings. The web API types and PATCH helper include the new fields.
Build sync response and waiter handling
relay/src/sync.ts, relay/src/channel-do.ts, relay/src/sync.test.ts
SyncWaiters tracks pending waits and early responses. ChannelDO adds a wait endpoint and settles waiters from response notifications. Sync response helpers filter headers, forward executor responses, and handle timeout and body-suppression cases. Tests cover waiters, timeout validation, headers, and response construction.
Connect webhook intake to executor responses
relay/src/index.ts
Sync intake registers a wait before notifying the executor and returns the resulting response or timeout outcome. GET and HEAD requests route through intake, with accepted methods and behavior determined by response mode.
Configure response mode in channel management
apps/web/src/pages/ChannelsList.tsx, docs/src/pages/RelayAPI.tsx
The channel list adds async/sync controls and timeout choices. The API documentation describes sync response forwarding, verification requests, and timeout behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sender
  participant Relay
  participant ChannelDO
  participant Executor
  Sender->>Relay: Send webhook request
  Relay->>ChannelDO: Register wait by event ID
  Relay->>Executor: Notify event
  Executor->>Relay: Submit response data
  Relay->>ChannelDO: Notify response
  ChannelDO-->>Relay: Settle waiter
  Relay-->>Sender: Return executor response
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The remaining issues are bounded: clarify timeout configuration, correct the advertised methods, and make the timer tests resilient to failed assertions. They do not establish a failure of synchronous webhook replies.

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This PR adds configurable async/sync channel response modes, wiring Durable Object waiters to executor replies so webhook senders can receive localhost status, headers, and body—including GET verification responses—while preserving queued delivery on timeout. It exposes the settings through the database, APIs, dashboard, and docs, with validation, header filtering, error mapping, and relay tests.

Sequence diagram for synchronous webhook response relay

sequenceDiagram
    participant Sender as Webhook sender
    participant Relay
    participant DO as ChannelDO
    participant Executor as Local executor
    participant Local as Local server

    Sender->>Relay: Webhook request
    Relay->>DO: POST /wait(eventId, timeoutMs)
    Relay->>DO: POST /notify(event)
    DO->>Executor: Deliver queued event
    Executor->>Local: Forward webhook
    Local-->>Executor: Status, headers, body
    Executor->>Relay: POST /hook/:id/response
    Relay->>DO: Notify response(sync result)
    DO-->>Relay: Resolve waiter
    Relay-->>Sender: Local response + X-BridgeHook-Event-Id

    alt timeout
        DO-->>Relay: timeout
        Relay-->>Sender: 504, event remains queued
    else local server unreachable
        Executor->>Relay: Response with status 0
        Relay-->>Sender: 502
    end
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State diagram for channel response modes

stateDiagram-v2
    [*] --> Async
    Async --> Async: webhook → 202, background delivery
    Async --> Sync: PATCH responseMode=sync
    Sync --> Sync: webhook waits for executor reply
    Sync --> Async: PATCH responseMode=async
    Sync --> Replied: local response received
    Sync --> TimedOut: syncTimeoutMs elapsed
    Replied --> [*]: return local status, headers, body
    TimedOut --> [*]: return 504; keep event queued
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Change Details Files
Add persisted channel configuration for synchronous webhook responses.
  • Add response mode with async default and bounded sync timeout.
  • Apply the migration and expose fields through channel creation, detail, and user-channel APIs.
  • Validate response mode and clamp timeout values on writes.
packages/shared/src/db/schema.ts
relay/migrations/0001_channel_response_mode.sql
relay/migrations/meta/0001_snapshot.json
relay/migrations/meta/_journal.json
relay/src/index.ts
relay/src/routes/me.ts
apps/web/src/lib/me-api.ts
Implement end-to-end sync relay waiting and response forwarding.
  • Register a Durable Object waiter before executor notification and return 504 on timeout while retaining queued events.
  • Cache early executor replies, settle waiters from response notifications, and support multiple waiters per event.
  • Forward localhost status, body, and safe headers while removing hop-by-hop/framing headers and mapping unreachable responses to 502.
  • Add sync GET/HEAD handling across channel-host, canonical, and /hook routes; preserve the async explanation page.
  • Await sync response delivery from /hook/:id/response and include the event identifier in the sender response.
relay/src/sync.ts
relay/src/channel-do.ts
relay/src/index.ts
relay/src/sync.test.ts
Expose sync response controls and usage guidance in the dashboard and documentation.
  • Add Reply mode toggle and configurable timeout picker to the Channels page.
  • Update client channel types and PATCH handling for sync settings.
  • Document sync behavior, timeout/error semantics, and GET verification challenge usage.
apps/web/src/pages/ChannelsList.tsx
apps/web/src/lib/me-api.ts
docs/src/pages/RelayAPI.tsx

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33-41: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore real timers if an assertion fails.

vi.useRealTimers() runs after the expect. If the assertion fails, fake timers stay active. Later tests then run with fake timers. The same applies to the TTL test at lines 51-61. Use afterEach(() => vi.useRealTimers()).

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Review comments at @docs/src/pages/RelayAPI.tsx:
- Line 122: Update the syncTimeoutMs description in the Relay API documentation
to state that numeric values are rounded and clamped to 1–100 seconds, and that
non-numeric or non-finite values return 400; retain the existing default timeout
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Review comments at @relay/src/index.ts:
- Line 1188: Update the 405 response in channelHostResponse to include HEAD in
its Allow header alongside the currently supported methods, GET, and OPTIONS;
use the same Allow list for both async and sync channel hosts.

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- Around line 33-41: Ensure fake timers are restored even when an assertion
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Comment thread relay/src/index.ts
Review of PR #6: a sync reply carries content from the channel owner's
server to whoever sent the request. On the relay host, a hostile text/html
reply would run script on the origin that holds the session cookie.

- Sync replies always carry Content-Security-Policy: sandbox and
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, and never pass Set-Cookie through.
- With TUNNEL_DOMAIN set, sync channels answer only on <id>.<domain>; the
  relay-host forms return 421 with the right URL.
- 1xx replies go down the 502 path and 205 is sent without a body, both of
  which made Response() throw.
- The channel-host wrapper keeps localhost's own Access-Control-Allow-Origin
  instead of overwriting it with *.
Review of PR #6: the DO payload included the full reply only when the
channel was sync at answer time, so switching a channel to async while a
sync request waited left that sender to time out with a 504 even though the
answer had arrived. The DO now always gets the reply and drops it when no
one is waiting.
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