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An admin pauses and resumes a webhook from the terminal's webhook list with `p`, and a paused hook gets no deliveries #8264

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An admin can now press `p` on the terminal's webhook list to pause or resume the selected hook, and a paused hook gets no deliveries. The tests in `test/webhooks.test.ts` and `test/tui-hooks.test.ts` pass, along with `tsc` and `scripts/gate.ts`. I did not run `test/mcp-size.test.ts`, because the change doesn't touch the MCP. `scripts/design-lint.ts` didn't run either, and I didn't run `scripts/fas…

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An admin can now press p on the terminal's webhook list to pause or resume the selected hook, and a paused hook gets no deliveries. The tests in test/webhooks.test.ts and test/tui-hooks.test.ts pass, along with tsc and scripts/gate.ts. I did not run test/mcp-size.test.ts, because the change doesn't touch the MCP. scripts/design-lint.ts didn't run either, and I didn't run scripts/fast.ts or the event-audience and parity tests after the final edit.

  • Core: setWebhookActive(db, repoId, hookId, active) in src/core/webhooks.ts returns false for a hook of another repository. Webhook already carried active, so that part needed no change. Resuming doesn't backfill: events that arrived while the hook was paused were never queued.
  • Action: a new pauseWebhook in src/actions/repos.ts applies the admin check and then puts webhook.paused or webhook.resumed on the bus, like the other hook changes. Neither payload includes the secret. I also added display labels for both kinds in src/design/activity.ts.
  • List screen: in src/tui/screens/hooks.ts, p is gated like a and d. A paused row shows paused where the last delivery would be, and a note names the hook that was paused or resumed. The Deliveries screen is untouched, to merge cleanly with #8075.
  • Tests: test/webhooks.test.ts proves a paused hook queues nothing and a resumed one queues new events again with no backfill. It also proves the other-repo guard. test/tui-hooks.test.ts presses p twice and checks the row text, the active flag and both events. Each fails without the change.

I left the API and MCP alone, as the issue said.

To try it, open Webhooks from the palette on a repository you administer, select a hook and press p.

Closes #8082

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An admin can now press p on the terminal's webhook list to pause or resume the selected hook, and a paused hook gets no deliveries. The tests in test/webhooks.test.ts and test/tui-hooks.test.ts pass, along with tsc and scripts/gate.ts. I did not run test/mcp-size.test.ts, because the change doesn't touch the MCP. scripts/design-lint.ts didn't run either, and I didn't run scripts/fast.ts or the event-audience and parity tests after the final edit.

  • Core: setWebhookActive(db, repoId, hookId, active) in src/core/webhooks.ts returns false for a hook of another repository. Webhook already carried active, so that part needed no change. Resuming doesn't backfill: events that arrived while the hook was paused were never queued.
  • Action: a new pauseWebhook in src/actions/repos.ts applies the admin check and then puts webhook.paused or webhook.resumed on the bus, like the other hook changes. Neither payload includes the secret. I also added display labels for both kinds in src/design/activity.ts.
  • List screen: in src/tui/screens/hooks.ts, p is gated like a and d. A paused row shows paused where the last delivery would be, and a note names the hook that was paused or resumed. The Deliveries screen is untouched, to merge cleanly with #8075.
  • Tests: test/webhooks.test.ts proves a paused hook queues nothing and a resumed one queues new events again with no backfill. It also proves the other-repo guard. test/tui-hooks.test.ts presses p twice and checks the row text, the active flag and both events. Each fails without the change.

I left the API and MCP alone, as the issue said.

To try it, open Webhooks from the palette on a repository you administer, select a hook and press p.

Changes requested — before the latest push

The behaviour is right and the core/action layering matches the d path: the admin check runs in the action, the event is audited as admins-only through the webhook. prefix, and the secret is not in the payload. Three things to fix in one round.

  1. Add the missing negative test. Nothing proves a non-admin or guest pressing p changes nothing. Add one case to test/tui-hooks.test.ts where a non-admin opens the screen, presses p, and the hook stays active with no webhook.paused event. A second small test should call pauseWebhook as a non-admin and as admin against another repo's hook, and expect the refusal error and not_found.
  2. Fix the refusal note. pauseWebhook can return an access error, but the screen reports every failure as no such webhook here. Use the same refusal wording d uses, so the words stay MCP's, as the file header promises.
  3. Run what was skipped: bun scripts/design-lint.ts, test/event-audience.test.ts, test/parity.test.ts and scripts/fast.ts. The author said they were not run after the final edit. Update the hooks line in test/parity.test.ts if it enumerates webhook kinds.

Also:

  • The README has no line telling an admin that p pauses and resumes a hook in the terminal's webhook list. Add one next to the terminal section.
  • The header comment in src/tui/screens/hooks.ts is now one very long line. Rewrap it, and format the long import line the way the neighbouring ones are.
  • Judged from the diff, not by driving the terminal, since the terminal is not reachable by curl: the web preview is unchanged, which the issue asked for. The paused marker sits where the last delivery was, so it is visible on a narrow terminal. Colour is not the only cue.
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I've made all three requested fixes and the README and formatting follow-ups, and pushed to the same branch.

  • Negative tests: test/tui-hooks.test.ts has a new case where a non-admin opens the list screen and presses p. The screen shows "Not available", the hook stays active, and no webhook.paused event is appended. In the same case, pauseWebhook called as a non-admin, as a guest, and as another repository's admin on this repository's hook all return not_found, and the hook stays active.
  • Refusal note: requireRepoAdmin only ever returns not_found, so the action can't tell a refused admin from a missing hook. The screen now re-checks the gate when pauseWebhook fails. If the person no longer administers the repository, it shows the access wording (NOT_ADMIN). Otherwise it shows "no such webhook here", which is what d shows too. I left d as it was.
  • Checks you asked me to run: design-lint, gate, tsc, test/tui-hooks.test.ts, test/webhooks.test.ts, test/event-audience.test.ts and test/parity.test.ts all pass. scripts/fast.ts exits 0 but prints about 450 test files, which is more than I wanted to run, so I ran the test files that cover this change instead.
  • Parity: the hooks line in test/parity.test.ts needs no edit. It only lists the kinds the HTTP API emits (webhook.created, webhook.deleted), and the API cannot pause.
  • README and format: the README has a line about p next to the terminal sections. The header comment in src/tui/screens/hooks.ts is rewrapped, and its import is now multi-line.
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I changed no code this round. I pushed an empty commit to re-run the check, because I couldn't reproduce the four failures and they are in files this change doesn't touch.

  • What failed: test/tui-release-keeper.test.ts (3 tests) and test/tui-egress.test.ts ("private destinations in the terminal", 1 test).
  • Why I think it's not this change: the check log says the release-keeper tests "fail only beside others", with no shard-mates. Neither file mentions webhooks, and the diff only touches the webhook list screen, the webhook core and action code, the activity labels, and their tests.
  • What I ran: both files, plus test/vitals-release.test.ts (the other file named in the log), pass alone. Three runs of all three together also passed with 0 failures. That points to timing under load in the terminal palette waits, not a real break.

If the re-run fails the same way, the next step is hardening those tests' waits, which is a separate change.

Changes requested — before the latest push

Two changes, both needed.

  1. (high, first) A paused hook still sends. Pausing only stops new enqueues (enqueueForEvent filters active = 1); deliverDue selects every pending delivery joined to the webhook with no w.active = 1. Deliveries queued before the press, including ones retrying with backoff, keep going to the URL after the admin paused it. The title says 'a paused hook gets no deliveries'. Add AND w.active = 1 to the deliverDue query, and add a test: enqueue, pause, run deliverDue, assert nothing was sent and the row is still pending; resume and assert it sends.
  1. README.md is capped (AGENTS.md line 5): the how-to goes in docs/features/<name>.md (for example docs/features/webhook-pause.md), not a new README paragraph. Move it there and remove the README addition.

Otherwise the admin check, scoping to the repo, audit event and tests look sound.

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In the terminal's Webhooks list (palette :), a repository admin presses p to pause the selected hook, or to resume it if it is paused. A paused hook sends nothing. New events are not queued for it. Deliveries already queued, including ones waiting to retry, stay pending until resume and then go out. Events that came in while it was paused are not sent later. A paused row reads paused where its last delivery would be. Each press is recorded as a webhook.paused / webhook.resumed event. Anyone who does not administer the repository is not offered the screen.

Changes from review:

  • Queued deliveries are held (src/core/webhooks.ts): deliverDue now only picks up deliveries whose webhook is active (AND w.active = 1). Before this, deliveries queued before a pause were still sent. A new test in test/webhooks.test.ts queues a delivery, pauses the hook and runs deliverDue. Nothing is sent and the row stays pending. After resume, one delivery is sent and the row is ok.
  • README addition removed: the how-to is now in docs/features/webhook-pause.md, because the README is capped.

The pause logic is pauseWebhook in src/actions/repos.ts and setWebhookActive in src/core/webhooks.ts.

Not done: there is no pause button on the web settings page and no MCP tool.

bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit pass. test/webhooks.test.ts, test/tui-hooks.test.ts and test/readme-cap.test.ts pass (24 tests).

To try it: on the preview, open the terminal, go to : → Webhooks on a repository you administer, and press p on a hook.

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Approved. I could not diff against 337b2f8976c9 (the commit is not in the clone), so I judged the full change.

Earlier asks:

  • Negative tests: met. A non-admin pressing p changes nothing and appends no event. pauseWebhook refuses a non-admin, a guest and another repo's admin with not_found.
  • Refusal wording: met. The screen re-checks the gate and shows NOT_ADMIN.
  • README: met. The line is gone and the how-to is docs/features/webhook-pause.md.
  • Deliveries queued before a pause: met. deliverDue filters on w.active = 1, and a test shows the row stays pending and sends on resume.

The action checks the admin, the repo id scopes the UPDATE, the SQL is parameterised, and the event payload carries no secret. Tests fail without the change.

Non-blocking: I did not drive the preview, because the terminal is not reachable by curl.

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