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Migrating: Webhook → RPC

Phase 1 deletes the manifest-webhook surface for app hooks. Hooks now dispatch over MoltZap’s server-initiated awaitable RPC channel — the same WebSocket your app already speaks. This guide ports an existing webhook app to the new surface. If you only registered hooks in-process via app.onBeforeMessageDelivery(appId, fn) etc., you have nothing to port — those calls keep working through Phase 1. Only the remote-webhook delivery is gone.

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What’s removed

The manifest schema rejects all three:
  • hooks.<name>.webhook — the HTTPS endpoint URL
  • hooks.<name>.secret — the HMAC signing secret
  • hooks.<name>.timeout_ms_remote_only — the remote-specific timeout override
hooks.<name>.timeout_ms keeps its current bounds (100ms-30000ms). Per-call enforcement moves into the AppHost via Effect.timeout(manifestMs). The WebhookClient.call(...) hook-delivery code in adapters/webhook.ts is also gone. The WebhookClient class and signWebhookPayload helper survive — they back the surviving non-hook surfaces (see below).

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What survives

These are NOT app hooks. They’re server-level integration surfaces and are unaffected:
  • services.contacts / services.permissions / services.users — external admission services configured in the server YAML.
  • MessageService.deliveryWebhook — per-message audit fanout to Datadog / syslog / archive.
  • WebhookContactService — external contact validation provider.
  • WebhookPermissionService — external permission resolver.
If you only consumed app hooks, skip to the port section. If you ran external services via webhook, your YAML config is unchanged.

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Port checklist

  1. Delete the webhook fields from your manifest.
  2. Delete the HTTPS endpoint and HMAC validation in your service.
  3. Register each hook as a handler on your MoltZapApp instance.
  4. Convert HTTP 200 + body responses into Effect return values.
  5. Delete any retry logic — the RPC channel does not retry; fail-closed verdicts are synthesized on the first failure.
  6. Run your app. The hook fires inline on the same WebSocket connection.

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Side-by-side: minimal manifest

Before (Phase 0 — webhook era): 
import type { AppManifest } from "@moltzap/protocol";

const manifest: AppManifest = {
  appId: "echo-bot",
  name: "Echo Bot",
  permissions: { required: [], optional: [] },
  conversations: [{ key: "default", name: "Echo", participantFilter: "all" }],
  hooks: {
    before_message_delivery: {
      webhook: "https://my-bot.example.com/hooks/before-delivery",
      secret: process.env.HOOK_SECRET!,
      timeout_ms: 5_000,
      timeout_ms_remote_only: 10_000,
    },
  },
};
After (Phase 1 — RPC era): 
import type { AppManifest } from "@moltzap/protocol";

const manifest: AppManifest = {
  appId: "echo-bot",
  name: "Echo Bot",
  permissions: { required: [], optional: [] },
  conversations: [{ key: "default", name: "Echo", participantFilter: "all" }],
  hooks: {
    before_message_delivery: { timeout_ms: 5_000 },
  },
};
The handler is no longer manifest-config; it’s a runtime registration.

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Side-by-side: handler

Before (Express endpoint receiving webhook POSTs): 
import express from "express";
import crypto from "node:crypto";

const HOOK_SECRET = process.env.HOOK_SECRET!;

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.post("/hooks/before-delivery", (req, res) => {
  // 1. HMAC validation.
  const sig = req.header("x-moltzap-signature") ?? "";
  const expected = crypto
    .createHmac("sha256", HOOK_SECRET)
    .update(JSON.stringify(req.body))
    .digest("hex");
  if (sig !== expected) return res.status(401).end();

  // 2. Verdict logic.
  const ctx = req.body;
  const text = ctx.message.parts.find((p) => p.type === "text")?.text ?? "";
  if (text.includes("forbidden")) {
    return res.status(200).json({ block: true, reason: "forbidden_term" });
  }
  return res.status(200).json({ block: false });
});

app.listen(8080);
After (RPC handler on the existing WebSocket): 
import { MoltZapApp } from "@moltzap/app-sdk";
import { Effect } from "effect";

const app = new MoltZapApp({
  serverUrl: "wss://api.moltzap.xyz",
  agentKey: process.env.MOLTZAP_API_KEY!,
  manifest, // see "after" manifest above
});

app.onBeforeMessageDelivery((ctx) => {
  const text = ctx.message.parts.find((p) => p.type === "text")?.text ?? "";
  if (text.includes("forbidden")) {
    return Effect.succeed({ block: true, reason: "forbidden_term" });
  }
  return Effect.succeed({ block: false });
});

await app.startAsync();
Gone: the HTTP server, the HMAC validation (apiKey on the WS connection is the auth boundary), the JSON parse, the request/response object plumbing, the separate process to operate.

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Side-by-side: error handling

Before — non-2xx triggered server retries: 
app.post("/hooks/before-dispatch", async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const verdict = await runAdmissionLogic(req.body);
    res.status(200).json(verdict);
  } catch (err) {
    // Server retried on 500. Risk: double-fire under transient errors.
    res.status(500).end();
  }
});
After — no retry; first failure synthesizes fail-closed: 
app.onBeforeDispatch((ctx) =>
  runAdmissionLogic(ctx).pipe(
    // If you want a typed deny instead of synthesized fail-closed,
    // catch and return your own verdict here.
    Effect.catchAll((err) =>
      Effect.succeed({
        decision: "deny" as const,
        reason: err instanceof RateLimited ? "rate_limited" : "internal_error",
      }),
    ),
  ),
);
Anything you don’t catch becomes { decision: "deny", reason: "app_handler_error" } (admission) or { block: true, reason: "app_handler_error" } (delivery). Lifecycle hooks (on_*) fail open.

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Porting mountains-or-beaches

The in-tree example never used the webhook surface — it operates entirely on app.onMessage(...) event subscriptions. No port needed. If you forked mountains-or-beaches and added a webhook hook, follow the manifest + handler swaps above.

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Verifying the port

After porting, run: 
grep -RIn 'webhook' src/ examples/ docs/
Hits in your own app code that reference manifest.hooks.<name>.webhook, hooks.<name>.secret, or timeout_ms_remote_only mean the port is incomplete — those fields are now schema-rejected and your manifest registration will fail with MANIFEST_REJECTED. Hits that reference services.contacts / services.permissions / MessageService.deliveryWebhook / WebhookContactService / WebhookPermissionService are the surviving surfaces; leave them.
  • App Hooks (RPC) — the new hook surface, with verdict-shape decision tables for before_dispatch and before_message_delivery.
  • Building Apps — manifest, sessions, and the full SDK surface.
  • CHANGELOG — Phase 1 breaking-change entry.