## Problem
`buzz channels create --template` fails with a bare-pubkey
duplicate-instance error when a persona has more than one live instance.
When duplicate instances share the same display name and avatar, the
error gives the operator no signal to identify which instance is stale.
## What changed
**`crates/buzz-cli/src/commands/channels.rs`** (boundary) + one
visibility line in **`crates/buzz-cli/src/commands/users.rs`** (`fn
presence_subject` → `pub(crate)`), plus a relay behavior change in
**`crates/buzz-relay/src/api/bridge.rs`** and a supporting test in
**`crates/buzz-pubsub/src/presence.rs`**.
### Relay: presence-lookup failure is now surfaced as a failure
`synthesize_presence` previously collapsed a Redis `get_presence_bulk`
error into `unwrap_or_default()` → HTTP 200 `[]`, making a backend
outage indistinguishable from an authoritative all-offline snapshot. It
now returns `Option<Result<Vec<Value>, (StatusCode, Json<Value>)>>`:
`None` means the request is not a presence query (fall through),
`Some(Ok)` is a real snapshot (an empty vec is an authoritative
all-offline result), and `Some(Err)` is a backend failure surfaced as a
non-2xx response. The event tag-parse and sign paths were converted from
`.ok()?` fall-throughs to explicit `Some(Err(...))` for the same reason
— a silent fall-through would have reintroduced the fake-empty-success
anti-pattern. The function takes `pubsub` and `relay_keypair` directly
rather than the whole `AppState`, which keeps the Redis-error seam
unit-testable without live infrastructure; its single production caller
was updated accordingly, and no other caller consumes
`synthesize_presence`.
### Hint fetch architecture
**`assemble_roster_resolution<F, Fut>`** — post-fetch stage extracted
from `build_roster_resolution` as an injectable-fetcher async generic.
It contains: archive-filter-based duplicate detection, the conditional
`fetch_hints` call, and `finalize_roster_resolution` delegation.
Accepting the fetcher as a closure makes the wiring directly testable
without a relay.
`build_roster_resolution` reduces to: gather slugs → `tokio::join!(scan,
archive)` → delegate with the real `fetch_candidate_hints` closure.
**Zero hint queries on the happy path**: `assemble_roster_resolution`
only invokes the fetcher when duplicate live instances exist after
archive filtering. Untrusted archive snapshot (`Err`) conservatively
treats all found instances as live.
When duplicates exist, `fetch_candidate_hints` runs the presence
(kind:40902) and profile (kind:0) queries concurrently, bounding **each
independently** through `join_bounded_queries`: a per-query 3-second
timeout maps to `Err`, so a lookup that completes is never discarded
because its sibling hung. On total failure or timeout, bare pubkeys are
printed promptly.
### Trusted-snapshot boundary — `hints_from_results`
The relay drops the Redis presence key when an identity goes offline, so
the bulk presence snapshot never returns an event for an offline
instance — precisely the stale duplicate an operator needs flagged.
`hints_from_results` therefore treats a *trusted* presence snapshot as a
**complete snapshot** for the requested pubkeys: it seeds all of them
`offline`, then overlays returned statuses.
A response is trusted only when `trusted_presence_snapshot` validates
**every** array element as the actual snapshot contract: each must parse
as a complete signed `nostr::Event` of the presence-update kind carrying
exactly one `p` tag whose subject is one of the requested pubkeys.
Requiring the *sole* `p`-tag subject — the exact value `build_hint_map`
later reads via `presence_subject` — is what stops a mixed-tag event
(`[["p","<unrequested>"],["p","<requested>"]]`) from passing the gate
yet overlaying a different subject downstream. Any element that is not
such an event — a vacuous object like
`{"pubkey":"…","content":"online"}`, `[{}]`, `[null]`, an event of the
wrong kind, one for an unrequested subject, or one carrying more than
one `p` tag — makes presence enrichment untrusted: nothing is seeded
`offline`, so absence is never falsely inferred as offline. A failed,
timed-out, or non-array presence response is likewise untrusted. In
every untrusted case the successful profile sibling still contributes
its hints.
### Response-to-map conversion — `build_hint_map`
Sync production function taking the offline seed plus raw
presence/profile event slices. Relay-signed presence events carry the
agent pubkey in the `p` tag (not the event author); `build_hint_map`
calls `presence_subject` from `users.rs` (now `pub(crate)`) to resolve
the correct key.
### Hint display — `format_candidate`
Appends `[online/offline, profile updated YYYY-MM-DD]` (or subset) to
each candidate pubkey in the error. `profile_updated_at` names the field
correctly: kind:0 is replaceable state that desktop republishes on
rename and profile reconciliation, so `created_at` reflects the last
profile update, not provisioning time. Date formatted via
`chrono::DateTime::from_timestamp`; out-of-range timestamps omit the
date. Missing entries fall back to bare pubkeys.
### Cardinality rule
`apply_cardinality_rule` remains pure and relay-free; zero/one/many
semantics unchanged.
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Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carl <9d00794d3df50972eb8b615511783cab12a77a8fd5dd5edd58073ec73b54bd8b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub1g8493u0xfsjrvflg4n08ezd7vec99mnwzlv0qgwpr9d7gvjwhuzqx59rhw <41ea58f1e64c243627e8acde7c89be667052ee6e17d8f021c1195be4324ebf04@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
## Summary
- send desktop presence heartbeats every 60 seconds instead of every 30
seconds
- extend presence TTL from 90 to 180 seconds to preserve the existing
three-heartbeat expiry window
- add mutation-sensitive tests that pin the one-minute / three-window
timing contract
- update presence documentation to match
This halves steady-state **desktop** presence `SET` + `PUBLISH` traffic
while retaining tolerance for two missed heartbeats. Mobile already uses
a 60-second heartbeat, so the fleet-wide reduction depends on desktop's
share of connected clients.
## Rollout order
Deploy the relay TTL increase before shipping the desktop heartbeat
change. Old desktop + new relay is safe; new desktop + old relay leaves
only a 90-second TTL on a 60-second cadence and can flap after one
missed heartbeat.
## Verification
At initial live-test commit `00816e233b187bc5ba12c667d675ed050a8cc1c9`:
- isolated clean-room relay built from the exact SHA against fresh
Postgres, Redis, and MinIO
- live Redis `MONITOR` observed kind-20001 writes as `SET ... EX 180`,
global `PUBLISH`, and clean-disconnect / explicit-offline `DEL`
- normal workflows passed: channel create/update/archive/unarchive;
message send/get/reply/thread/search; archived-channel write rejection
and resumed write after unarchive
At follow-up commit `bf38a8c5c96f196ff8ee46e48d4141ee7811f186`:
- `pnpm -C desktop test` — 3829 passed
- `pnpm -C desktop typecheck`
- `cargo test -p buzz-pubsub` — 24 passed, 11 Redis-dependent tests
ignored
- mutation probes fail when the server TTL changes to `999999` or the
desktop heartbeat changes back to 30 seconds
- `git diff --check`
The pre-push suite's relevant checks passed, but its unrelated Tauri
clippy step fails on current `origin/main`:
`desktop/src-tauri/src/linux_media.rs` has three dead-code warnings on
macOS. This PR does not modify that file, so the branch was pushed after
independently running the suites above.
## Buzz context
Originating channel: `buzz-redis-cluster-mode`
(`f4e36d32-afdb-447f-8c87-ab003e069d18`)
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