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Description
🔔 Add Real-time Webhook Support for Notifications
Problem
The DevRev MCP server currently operates in a request-response model, requiring users to manually query for updates. This creates a poor user experience for scenarios where real-time notifications about DevRev objects (issues, tickets, conversations) would be valuable.
Proposed Solution
Implement webhook support to receive real-time notifications from DevRev and push them to MCP clients, enabling reactive workflows and better user experience.
Acceptance Criteria
🎯 Core Webhook Infrastructure
- Research and document DevRev webhook capabilities and endpoints
- Design webhook architecture that integrates with MCP protocol
- Implement HTTP server for receiving DevRev webhook payloads
- Add webhook endpoint authentication and verification
- Handle webhook payload parsing and validation
📡 MCP Integration
- Implement MCP notification system for pushing updates to clients
- Design notification message format for different event types
- Add configuration for which events to subscribe to
- Implement client subscription management
- Handle client disconnection and reconnection scenarios
🔧 Configuration & Setup
- Add webhook URL configuration options
- Implement webhook registration with DevRev API
- Add environment variables for webhook settings
- Create webhook health check and monitoring
- Add webhook retry logic for failed deliveries
📋 Event Types Support
- Work Events: Issue/ticket created, updated, resolved, closed
- Conversation Events: New messages, replies, status changes
- Assignment Events: Work item assignments and reassignments
- Status Events: Priority changes, stage transitions
- Comment Events: New comments and replies on work items
🔄 Real-time Sync Features
- Automatic cache invalidation on webhook events
- Incremental sync for missed events during downtime
- Event deduplication and ordering
- Rate limiting and backpressure handling
- Configurable event filtering (by type, project, user, etc.)
🛠️ Developer Experience
- Add webhook testing utilities and mock endpoints
- Create webhook event simulation for development
- Add comprehensive logging for webhook events
- Implement webhook event replay for debugging
- Add metrics and monitoring for webhook performance
Technical Implementation Details
Architecture Considerations
- Use async/await for non-blocking webhook processing
- Implement queue system for handling high-volume webhook events
- Add webhook signature verification for security
- Consider using WebSocket connections for real-time client communication
- Design for horizontal scaling (multiple webhook receivers)
Security Requirements
- Validate webhook signatures from DevRev
- Implement authentication for MCP client subscriptions
- Add rate limiting to prevent abuse
- Secure webhook endpoints with HTTPS
- Log security events and suspicious activity
Performance Requirements
- Handle webhook burst traffic (many events in short time)
- Minimize latency between webhook receipt and client notification
- Implement efficient event routing to interested clients
- Add monitoring for webhook processing times
- Scale webhook processing based on load
Example Use Cases
- Customer Support: Get notified when high-priority tickets are created
- Engineering: Real-time updates on bug resolution status
- Product Management: Notifications for feature request updates
- DevOps: Alerts for deployment-related issues
Technical Challenges to Consider
- DevRev webhook API limitations and capabilities
- MCP protocol constraints for real-time notifications
- Client connection management and scaling
- Event ordering and consistency guarantees
- Webhook reliability and failure recovery
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Labels
enhancement, advanced, real-time, webhooks
Note: This is an advanced feature that requires deep understanding of both DevRev APIs and MCP protocol. Contributors should have experience with async programming, webhook systems, and real-time architectures.