ingest
Manage App Inbound Hooks
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A v2 app's inbound catch-hooks (inbound-webhooks). A catch-hook lets an external system such as Stripe, Zapier, Make, Home Assistant or an email router POST JSON to a secret URL that writes into a declared collection, so the app receives data with no agent online. Hooks are declared in the manifest (x-homespun-manifest.ingest) and materialized at deploy, so this tool has no create or delete: it reads back the URL, rotates a leaked one, and manages the opt-in signing secret. After deploying a manifest that declares a hook, list is what yields the exact URL to paste into the external system. Actions: list returns the app's hooks, each with its full secret URL, current rule collection, mode, wake and handshake settings, per-status delivery counts and signing-secret state; rotate mints a fresh URL secret for one hook by name and returns the new url once, after which the old url stops working immediately with no redeploy needed; set_signing_secret provisions or rotates a hook's signing secret, which is a different secret from the URL and is what a provider HMACs the body with, minting one returned once when secret is omitted or storing a provider value verbatim when it is passed, and never echoing it back; clear_signing_secret removes it. Signature verification currently ships dark: nothing verifies a signature yet.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| action | string | yes | list: the app's inbound catch-hooks, each with its full secret URL, current rule (collection/mode/wake/handshake), and per-status delivery counts (app_id). rotate: mint a fresh URL secret for one hook and return its new URL once, invalidating the old URL immediately (app_id+name). set_signing_secret: provision or rotate a hook's opt-in signing secret, distinct from the URL secret (it is what a provider HMACs the body with); omit `secret` to mint one (returned once) or pass `secret` to store a provider-generated value verbatim (never echoed) (app_id+name). clear_signing_secret: remove a hook's signing secret (app_id+name). |
| app_id | string | yes | The app id. |
| name | string | no | rotate / set_signing_secret / clear_signing_secret. The manifest ingest hook name (an x-homespun-manifest.ingest[].name). See list's `name` field. |
| secret | string | no | set_signing_secret only. A provider-generated signing secret to store verbatim (the Stripe path). Omit to have the relay mint one (the GitHub path), returned once in the response. |
| grace_seconds | number | no | set_signing_secret only. On a rotation, how long the previous secret stays valid so deliveries verify while you update the provider (default 3600, max 86400). |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"list",
"rotate",
"set_signing_secret",
"clear_signing_secret"
],
"description": "list: the app's inbound catch-hooks, each with its full secret URL, current rule (collection/mode/wake/handshake), and per-status delivery counts (app_id). rotate: mint a fresh URL secret for one hook and return its new URL once, invalidating the old URL immediately (app_id+name). set_signing_secret: provision or rotate a hook's opt-in signing secret, distinct from the URL secret (it is what a provider HMACs the body with); omit `secret` to mint one (returned once) or pass `secret` to store a provider-generated value verbatim (never echoed) (app_id+name). clear_signing_secret: remove a hook's signing secret (app_id+name)."
},
"app_id": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "The app id."
},
"name": {
"description": "rotate / set_signing_secret / clear_signing_secret. The manifest ingest hook name (an x-homespun-manifest.ingest[].name). See list's `name` field.",
"type": "string"
},
"secret": {
"description": "set_signing_secret only. A provider-generated signing secret to store verbatim (the Stripe path). Omit to have the relay mint one (the GitHub path), returned once in the response.",
"type": "string"
},
"grace_seconds": {
"description": "set_signing_secret only. On a rotation, how long the previous secret stays valid so deliveries verify while you update the provider (default 3600, max 86400).",
"type": "number"
}
},
"required": [
"action",
"app_id"
]
}