Images live on the app server's local disk (uploads/), served through an
authenticated, room-membership-gated endpoint since rooms can be private.
Uploads are streamed with a byte-count cap, validated as genuine decodable
images with Pillow (not just a spoofed Content-Type), and downscaled to
2000px on the longer side (except GIF, to preserve animation).
Backend: MessageImage model + nullable Message.content/image_id with a
content-or-image CheckConstraint, upload/serve endpoints in rooms.py, WS
message envelope gains image_id, push notification body says "sent an
image" for image-only messages.
Frontend: Composer gets an attach button with upload progress and a
thumbnail chip; MessageList renders images inline with a click-to-zoom
ImageLightbox.
Bot accounts (User rows with is_bot=True), scoped API tokens (read:messages,
write:messages, manage:rooms) authenticated via Authorization: Bearer on both
REST and the WS handshake, live bot WebSocket access on the same /ws/chat
endpoint humans use, message editing (WS "edit" envelope -> message_update
broadcast, fans out cross-instance for free via the existing broadcaster),
incoming webhooks (room-scoped, no auth beyond the URL token), and outgoing
webhooks/event subscriptions (HMAC-SHA256 signed, backgrounded delivery,
creation-time SSRF validation against private/loopback/link-local targets).
Token auth is additive, not a parallel system: a bearer-token-authenticated
bot goes through the exact same room-membership/role checks a session-
authenticated human does everywhere; only read:messages/write:messages are
separately scope-gated (the two message endpoints). manage:rooms scope
enforcement, full per-delivery SSRF re-validation, and bot API rate limiting
were explicitly scoped out (confirmed with the repo owner) as disproportionate
to this phase -- documented as known gaps in backend/README.md rather than
silently skipped.
Admin portal gains a Bots tab (create bots, issue/revoke scoped tokens,
cross-room webhook visibility); RoomInfoPanel gains room-scoped webhook/
subscription management, mirroring how invites already work there. The chat
UI also gets a minimal "edit your own message" affordance -- not asked for
by the issue, but the only practical way to exercise the edit pipeline by
hand instead of only via a scripted bot client.
Along the way: fixed a real bug caught while writing the incoming-webhook
test -- offline-push notification relied on the sender being "connected" to
exclude themselves, true for WS-originated messages but not for the new
webhook path, which has no WS connection for the attributed sender at all.
Now explicitly excluded. Also discovered the REST-only test fixture never
triggered ASGI lifespan, so app.state.broadcaster/presence didn't exist for
it; moved their construction out of the lifespan into create_app() itself
(Redis client construction is synchronous/lazy) so both the WS and
REST-only paths always have them.
New tests/test_bots.py, test_message_edit.py, test_webhooks.py (full suite
now 78/78, stable across repeated runs) plus a scripted end-to-end smoke
test (bot WS join/post/edit, incoming webhook, SSRF rejection, outgoing
delivery) and a full browser walkthrough of the new admin/room UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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