@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/trigger-api': minor
+---
+
+feat(trigger-api): the `trigger-api` service serves the inbound hook from a web-standard `Request` (`ITriggerApiService.handleInboundHook`), and the self-hosted route is found under `http.server` too (#22774)
+
+Clause-②: yes
+
+- **What is new.** Wherever `ApiTriggerPlugin` installs its `api` trigger, it now registers the `trigger-api` service and implements its optional `ITriggerApiService.handleInboundHook(request, hook)` member. That member is the inbound hook, `POST /api/v1/automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId`, taking a `Request` and returning a `Response`, with no raw app, no Hono context and no `http.server`. A hosted tenant kernel owns no socket, so this is how the door reaches it. Its one caller is the runtime HTTP dispatcher's exact `POST /automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId` domain, which lands separately. The flow name and the hook id come from `hook`, the route the caller matched, and are never parsed again from the URL. The body is read once, from the request itself, and verified as the sender's own bytes.
+- **One door, two faces.** The member and the self-hosted route run the same code: the same hook match, the same per-hook secret, read at that moment, the same constant-time verification of `x-objectstack-signature` (the timestamped form and the deprecated body-only form alike), done before anything is enqueued, and the same answer for every outcome. For the same request they answer the same status, the same `Content-Type: application/json` and the same bytes: `401 INVALID_SIGNATURE` for every post that does not verify, `503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` when the hook's secret cannot be read or no queue service is registered, `400 INVALID_REQUEST` for a body that is not a JSON object, `503 ENQUEUE_FAILED`, or `202` with `{ accepted: true, messageId }`.
+- **No trigger, no service.** Where the automation service is absent, no trigger is installed, so the `trigger-api` slot stays empty (as no route is mounted). The member's caller then answers its typed absence. The boot `warn` line says so.
+- **The route is found under `http.server` too.** The plugin reads `http.server` first, then the deprecated `http-server` alias. A host that registers its server only as `http.server` (the runtime's `config.server` path) now gets the self-hosted route. One that registers a single server under both names still gets it once. Where the two names hold two servers, the route goes on the `http.server` one.
+- **The self-hosted route is otherwise unchanged.** Where it was mounted before, it answers the same status, headers and bytes for the same request, and the path is never mounted twice.
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^26.6.3",
+    "hono": "^4.13.9",
     "typescript": "^6.0.3",
     "vitest": "^4.1.11"
   },
 
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ export function verifySignature(secret: string, rawBody: string, header: string
  * hook (URL path + the required HMAC secret from the start node's `config`)
  * and subscribes a queue consumer that runs the flow. The HTTP side
  * ({@link handleRequest}) validates and **enqueues** — it never executes the
- * flow in-band:
+ * flow in-band. It answers the same through the self-hosted mount and through
+ * the `trigger-api` service's `handleInboundHook` (#22774):
  *
  *   POST /api/v1/automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId
  *     → 401 INVALID_SIGNATURE — every post that does not verify, one answer:
@@ -271,7 +272,10 @@ export class ApiTrigger implements FlowTrigger {
 
     /**
      * Handle one inbound request. Transport-agnostic: the plugin adapts this
-     * to the host HTTP server. Returns the response to send.
+     * to both faces of the door, the self-hosted raw-app mount and the
+     * `trigger-api` service's `handleInboundHook` (#22774), through one
+     * adapter, so both answer exactly what this returns. Returns the response
+     * to send.
      */
     async handleRequest(input: {
         flowName: string;
 
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2025 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
 
 import type { Plugin, PluginContext } from '@objectstack/core';
+import type { ITriggerApiService } from '@objectstack/spec/contracts';
 import { ApiTrigger } from './api-trigger.js';
 import type { FlowTrigger, QueueServiceSurface } from './api-trigger.js';
 
@@ -24,14 +25,95 @@ interface HttpServerSurface {
 /** Mount point for inbound hooks on the host HTTP server. */
 export const HOOKS_PATH = '/api/v1/automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId';
 
+/**
+ * [#22774] The service slot this plugin fills: `ITriggerApiService`
+ * (`@objectstack/spec/contracts`). The key is the package's own name, the
+ * name ADR-0041 §2 gives the trigger family, as the contract's docblock
+ * declares it.
+ */
+const TRIGGER_API_SLOT = 'trigger-api';
+
+/**
+ * [#22774] The slice of a Hono context the inbound-hook door reads and answers
+ * through, and nothing more: the raw body as text, two request headers, and
+ * `json(body, status)`.
+ *
+ * Both faces of the door hand {@link serveInboundHook} one of these. The
+ * self-hosted mount hands it the real Hono context, so its answers are the ones
+ * it always gave. The `trigger-api` service's `handleInboundHook` hands it
+ * {@link requestDoorContext} over a web-standard `Request`. So both faces run
+ * ONE copy of the door: one body read, one pair of header names, one
+ * {@link ApiTrigger.handleRequest} (the hook match, the secret read, the
+ * verifier and every status), and one way of answering.
+ */
+interface InboundHookDoorContext<R> {
+    req: { text(): Promise<string>; header(name: string): string | undefined };
+    json(body: unknown, status: number): R;
+}
+
+/**
+ * [#22774] A web-standard `Request` as the door's context, answering the way
+ * Hono's `c.json` answers: the body is `JSON.stringify(body)` and the one
+ * header is `Content-Type: application/json`.
+ *
+ * The body is read with `request.text()`, which is what Hono's `c.req.text()`
+ * reads (the raw request's own `text()`), so the verifier sees the bytes the
+ * sender signed, read once and never re-serialised. A header is read as Hono's
+ * `c.req.header(name)` reads it: `headers.get(name)`, absent as `undefined`.
+ */
+function requestDoorContext(request: Request): InboundHookDoorContext<Response> {
+    return {
+        req: {
+            text: () => request.text(),
+            header: (name) => request.headers.get(name) ?? undefined,
+        },
+        json: (body, status) => new Response(JSON.stringify(body), {
+            status,
+            headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+        }),
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * [#22774] The inbound-hook door, `POST /api/v1/automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId`,
+ * ONE body behind two faces: the self-hosted raw-app mount, and the
+ * `trigger-api` service's transport-neutral `handleInboundHook`. Neither face
+ * carries a rule of its own, so they cannot drift: the same hook match, the
+ * same per-hook secret, the same constant-time verifier before anything is
+ * enqueued, and the same answer for every outcome.
+ *
+ * The path parameters arrive as `hook`, from the route each face matched, and
+ * are never re-parsed from a URL. The mount is not a caller of the member, and
+ * nothing here mounts anything.
+ */
+async function serveInboundHook<R>(
+    trigger: ApiTrigger,
+    c: InboundHookDoorContext<R>,
+    hook: { readonly flowName: string; readonly hookId: string },
+): Promise<R> {
+    const rawBody = await c.req.text();
+    const out = await trigger.handleRequest({
+        flowName: hook.flowName,
+        hookId: hook.hookId,
+        rawBody,
+        signatureHeader: c.req.header('x-objectstack-signature'),
+        idempotencyKey: c.req.header('x-idempotency-key') || undefined,
+    });
+    return c.json(out.body, out.status);
+}
+
 /**
  * ApiTriggerPlugin (ADR-0041 Tier 1)
  *
  * Makes `type: 'api'` flows actually fire. The automation engine derives an
  * `api` binding from the flow; this plugin provides the concrete trigger:
  *
  *  - mounts `POST /api/v1/automation/hooks/:flowName/:hookId` on the host
- *    Hono app (resolved via the `http-server` service);
+ *    Hono app (resolved via the `http.server` service, then its deprecated
+ *    `http-server` alias);
+ *  - [#22774] registers the `trigger-api` service, whose
+ *    `handleInboundHook(request, hook)` serves the same door from a
+ *    web-standard `Request`, for a kernel with no raw app;
  *  - validates hookId + HMAC signature (`x-objectstack-signature`,
  *    GitHub/Stripe style, constant-time) against the flow's start-node
  *    config;
@@ -61,7 +143,10 @@ export class ApiTriggerPlugin implements Plugin {
         ctx.hook('kernel:ready', async () => {
             const automation = this.resolveService<AutomationTriggerRegistry>(ctx, 'automation');
             if (!automation || typeof automation.registerTrigger !== 'function') {
-                ctx.logger.warn('ApiTriggerPlugin: automation service not available — api trigger NOT installed');
+                ctx.logger.warn(
+                    'ApiTriggerPlugin: automation service not available — api trigger NOT installed, '
+                        + 'and the trigger-api service not registered',
+                );
                 return;
             }
             if (!this.resolveService<QueueServiceSurface>(ctx, 'queue')) {
@@ -74,23 +159,38 @@ export class ApiTriggerPlugin implements Plugin {
             );
             automation.registerTrigger(trigger);
 
-            const http = this.resolveService<HttpServerSurface>(ctx, 'http-server');
+            // [#22774] The `trigger-api` service, registered wherever the
+            // trigger is: where no trigger is installed the slot stays empty,
+            // and the member's caller answers its typed absence (the
+            // contract's rule), just as no route is mounted here then.
+            const service: ITriggerApiService = {
+                handleInboundHook: (request, hook) => serveInboundHook(trigger, requestDoorContext(request), hook),
+            };
+            ctx.registerService(TRIGGER_API_SLOT, service);
+
+            // [#22774] The server is read as `http.server` first, then the
+            // deprecated `http-server` alias, as `plugin-webhooks` and
+            // `plugin-approvals` read it. The canonical name is the only one
+            // present on every provider path: `runtime.ts`'s `config.server`
+            // path registers no alias, so an alias-only read never mounted the
+            // door there. `resolveService` asks each name in its own `try`,
+            // because `getService` throws on an empty slot. Where both names
+            // are registered (`plugin-hono-server` registers one server under
+            // both), the first answers, so the path is mounted once.
+            const http = this.resolveService<HttpServerSurface>(ctx, 'http.server')
+                ?? this.resolveService<HttpServerSurface>(ctx, 'http-server');
             const rawApp = http && typeof http.getRawApp === 'function' ? http.getRawApp() : null;
             if (!rawApp) {
-                ctx.logger.warn('ApiTriggerPlugin: HTTP server not available — hooks endpoint not mounted');
+                ctx.logger.warn(
+                    'ApiTriggerPlugin: HTTP server not available — hooks endpoint not mounted '
+                        + '(the trigger-api service still serves it to a caller that forwards the request)',
+                );
                 return;
             }
-            rawApp.post(HOOKS_PATH, async (c: any) => {
-                const rawBody = await c.req.text();
-                const out = await trigger.handleRequest({
-                    flowName: c.req.param('flowName'),
-                    hookId: c.req.param('hookId'),
-                    rawBody,
-                    signatureHeader: c.req.header('x-objectstack-signature'),
-                    idempotencyKey: c.req.header('x-idempotency-key') || undefined,
-                });
-                return c.json(out.body, out.status);
-            });
+            rawApp.post(HOOKS_PATH, async (c: any) => serveInboundHook(trigger, c, {
+                flowName: c.req.param('flowName'),
+                hookId: c.req.param('hookId'),
+            }));
             ctx.logger.info(`ApiTriggerPlugin: api trigger registered, hooks mounted at POST ${HOOKS_PATH}`);
         });
     }
 
@@ -242,8 +242,14 @@ function pathLiteralsIn(file: string): string[] {
 /** Absolute-path-shaped string literals, in any of the three quote styles. */
 const ABSOLUTE_PATH_LITERAL = /(['"`])(\/[A-Za-z0-9._~:@-][^'"`\s]*)\1/g;
 
-/** The two spellings by which a module in this package reaches the HOST app. */
-const HOST_APP_REACH = /getRawApp|['"`]http-server['"`]/;
+/**
+ * The spellings by which a module in this package reaches the HOST app: the
+ * raw-app accessor, and the server's service key under its canonical name
+ * `http.server` and its deprecated alias `http-server` (#22774: `plugin.ts`
+ * reads the canonical name first, so a census that knew only the alias would
+ * miss a second module reaching the same server the way the plugin now does).
+ */
+const HOST_APP_REACH = /getRawApp|['"`]http[.-]server['"`]/;
 
 /**
  * Does `source` reach for the host app IN CODE?
@@ -381,6 +387,7 @@ describe('comment-stripper (the scan machinery, pinned in both directions)', ()
         expect(reachesHostApp("const s = ctx.getService('http-server');\n")).toBe(true);
         expect(reachesHostApp('const s = ctx.getService("http-server");\n')).toBe(true);
         expect(reachesHostApp('const s = ctx.getService(`http-server`);\n')).toBe(true);
+        expect(reachesHostApp("const s = ctx.getService('http.server');\n")).toBe(true);
         expect(reachesHostApp('const app = server.getRawApp();\n')).toBe(true);
     });
 
@@ -391,10 +398,11 @@ describe('comment-stripper (the scan machinery, pinned in both directions)', ()
             'plugin.ts': 'const app = http.getRawApp();\n',
             'prose-only.ts': '// getRawApp() is reached in plugin.ts, never here\n',
             'zzz-second-reacher.ts': "const s = ctx.getService('http-server');\n",
+            'zzz-third-reacher.ts': "const s = ctx.getService('http.server');\n",
         };
         expect(
             filesReachingHostApp(Object.keys(fake).sort(), (f) => fake[f]),
-        ).toEqual(['plugin.ts', 'zzz-second-reacher.ts']);
+        ).toEqual(['plugin.ts', 'zzz-second-reacher.ts', 'zzz-third-reacher.ts']);
     });
 
     it('drops paths that only appear in prose, and keeps every path in code', () => {
 
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
  * (#11863, in the #3636 pattern).
  *
  * WHY THIS EXISTS. This plugin mounts its inbound-hooks endpoint on the HOST
- * Hono app: it resolves the `http-server` service at `kernel:ready`, takes the
- * framework-native handle through `getRawApp()`, and registers `POST` straight
- * on it. That mount is outside every ledger the platform had:
+ * Hono app: it resolves the `http.server` service (then its deprecated
+ * `http-server` alias, #22774) at `kernel:ready`, takes the framework-native
+ * handle through `getRawApp()`, and registers `POST` straight on it. That
+ * mount is outside every ledger the platform had:
  *
  *  - the dispatcher ledger (`packages/runtime/src/route-ledger.ts`) sees
  *    `RouteManager` branches; this is not one, and
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@`
`6`	`6`	`* (#11863, in the #3636 pattern).`
`7`	`7`	`*`
`8`	`8`	`* WHY THIS EXISTS. This plugin mounts its inbound-hooks endpoint on the HOST`
`9`		- * Hono app: it resolves the `http-server` service at `kernel:ready`, takes the
`10`		- * framework-native handle through `getRawApp()`, and registers `POST` straight
`11`		`- * on it. That mount is outside every ledger the platform had:`
	`9`	+ * Hono app: it resolves the `http.server` service (then its deprecated
	`10`	+ * `http-server` alias, #22774) at `kernel:ready`, takes the framework-native
	`11`	+ * handle through `getRawApp()`, and registers `POST` straight on it. That
	`12`	`+ * mount is outside every ledger the platform had:`
`12`	`13`	`*`
`13`	`14`	* - the dispatcher ledger (`packages/runtime/src/route-ledger.ts`) sees
`14`	`15`	* `RouteManager` branches; this is not one, and