diff --git a/workspace-server/internal/channels/discord.go b/workspace-server/internal/channels/discord.go
index e640e20f..965313f8 100644
--- a/workspace-server/internal/channels/discord.go
+++ b/workspace-server/internal/channels/discord.go
@@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ func (d *DiscordAdapter) SendMessage(ctx context.Context, config map[string]inte
 // Returns nil, nil for PING payloads — the handler layer must respond with `{"type":1}` to pass
 // Discord's endpoint verification. Returns an InboundMessage for APPLICATION_COMMAND payloads.
 func (d *DiscordAdapter) ParseWebhook(c *gin.Context, _ map[string]interface{}) (*InboundMessage, error) {
-	body, err := io.ReadAll(c.Request.Body)
+	// Cap incoming webhook bodies at 1 MiB. Discord's Interactions API
+	// payloads are well under 10 KiB in practice; the cap is a DoS
+	// guard, not a functional limit.
+	const maxDiscordWebhook = 1 << 20
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(c.Request.Body, maxDiscordWebhook))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("discord: read body: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/workspace-server/internal/handlers/config.go b/workspace-server/internal/handlers/config.go
index 9214be5c..fa83b98b 100644
--- a/workspace-server/internal/handlers/config.go
+++ b/workspace-server/internal/handlers/config.go
@@ -42,9 +42,14 @@ func (h *ConfigHandler) Get(c *gin.Context) {
 func (h *ConfigHandler) Patch(c *gin.Context) {
 	workspaceID := c.Param("id")
 
+	// 256 KiB cap: Postgres jsonb comfortably handles this and real
+	// configs are <10 KiB. The cap blocks naive memory-exhaustion DoS
+	// — a caller streaming a gigabyte of JSON would OOM the instance.
+	const maxConfigBody = 256 << 10
+	c.Request.Body = http.MaxBytesReader(c.Writer, c.Request.Body, maxConfigBody)
 	body, err := io.ReadAll(c.Request.Body)
 	if err != nil {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "failed to read body"})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusRequestEntityTooLarge, gin.H{"error": "body too large or unreadable"})
 		return
 	}