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Summary

  • Define GET /api/v1/events as an authenticated, wake-only WebSocket.
  • Document messages, drafts, and mailboxes topics with their OAuth scope rules.
  • Keep the REST change journals authoritative for reconciliation and recovery.
  • Define reconnect, bootstrap, and notification-failure behavior.

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Companion specification for HQBase/hqbase#48.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an authenticated WebSocket endpoint for real-time synchronization notifications.
    • Added event topics, permission checks, origin validation, reconnection, heartbeat handling, fallback polling, and missed-notification recovery.
    • Improved notification delivery reliability with safe duplicate handling and automatic retries.
    • Updated synchronization guidance to use WebSocket events with lease-based recovery.
    • Added a sidebar status indicator showing live connectivity, fallback synchronization, or connection failure with accessible labels and tooltips.

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Walkthrough

The specifications add an authenticated GET /events WebSocket endpoint, define event delivery and recovery behavior, update synchronization guidance, and add Mail connection status states.

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Mail event synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event channel specification
src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md
Documents the authenticated GET /events WebSocket endpoint, event topics, permission rules, delivery leases, reconnection, heartbeats, filtering, and Durable Object notification retries.
Synchronization and recovery
src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md
Uses WebSocket events to wake the existing changes-feed process. It retains polling, feed draining, full listings, journals, and lease reconnection for recovery.
Connection status indicator
src/content/docs/docs/specs/product-ui.md
Adds accessible Mail status states for WebSocket connectivity, fallback synchronization, and connection failure.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c5044

The specification currently omits the required owner-only suppression for unassigned-mail notifications, so admins and members could receive events that reveal mail activity they are not authorized to see. This privacy and access-control issue should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MailClient
  participant EventsWebSocket
  participant DurableObject
  MailClient->>EventsWebSocket: Authenticate GET /events upgrade
  EventsWebSocket->>DurableObject: Maintain event lease
  DurableObject->>EventsWebSocket: Deliver permitted notification
  EventsWebSocket->>MailClient: Send wake-up event
  MailClient->>MailClient: Drain changes feed
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Inline comments:
In `@src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md`:
- Around line 290-292: Update the WebSocket endpoint documentation around the
events description to use one canonical path, preferably GET /api/v1/events
throughout; if retaining GET /events, explicitly state that it is relative to
/api/v1.
- Around line 306-317: Update the WebSocket authorization section around the
server connection lifecycle to define how established connections react to
bearer-token revocation, session termination, and mailbox-access changes.
Specify when the server removes newly unauthorized topics or closes the
connection, ensuring no notifications are sent after authorization is lost while
preserving the existing reconnect and synchronization behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md`:
- Around line 338-340: Update the authenticated Durable Object notification flow
described in the mail API specification so notification failure triggers
synchronization recovery, such as marking or closing the event socket, issuing a
retryable wake, or periodically draining the feed while connected. Preserve
successful mutation acceptance and ensure the client cannot remain stale or
falsely healthy when notification delivery fails.
- Around line 290-292: Update the GET /api/v1/events documentation to define the
origin policy for cookie-authenticated WebSocket upgrades: specify the
trusted-origin allowlist, reject untrusted origins, and document how missing
Origin values are handled, or reference the canonical cookie and CSRF controls
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src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md (1)

316-318: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

State the owner-only rule for unassigned mail.

src/content/docs/docs/access-control.md states that only workspace owners can receive notifications for unassigned mail. This section only defines mailbox visibility checks, but unassigned mail has no mailbox. Explicitly suppress the messages topic for admins and members when the changed message is unassigned. Otherwise, the event channel can reveal mail activity outside the existing notification policy.

This follows the existing access-control rule in src/content/docs/docs/access-control.md.

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In `@src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md` around lines 316 - 318, Update the
message-event visibility rules described in the mailbox notification section to
explicitly suppress the messages topic for admins and members when a changed
message is unassigned, allowing only workspace owners to receive that
notification. Preserve the existing mailbox visibility checks for assigned
messages and align the behavior with the owner-only rule in the access-control
documentation.
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In `@src/content/docs/docs/specs/mail-api.md`:
- Around line 316-318: Update the message-event visibility rules described in
the mailbox notification section to explicitly suppress the messages topic for
admins and members when a changed message is unassigned, allowing only workspace
owners to receive that notification. Preserve the existing mailbox visibility
checks for assigned messages and align the behavior with the owner-only rule in
the access-control documentation.

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