# Protocol

> **Status: stub — Phase 1 (structure).** Content to be written in Phase 2.
>
> **Scope:** The Buzz protocol: Nostr foundation, event kinds, Buzz-specific extensions (NIPs). Protocol semantics only — client-interop how-to lives in guides/nostr-clients.md.

## Outline

- Nostr foundation (events, kinds, tags, signatures)
- Buzz event kinds
- Buzz NIP extensions (index + one-liners, links to reference)
- Auth model (NIP-42/NIP-43/NIP-98 as applicable)

## Source material

- `ARCHITECTURE.md` §2 The Protocol
- `NOSTR.md` (protocol-semantics half only — see split note)
- `docs/nips/` (linked, not duplicated)
- `crates/buzz-core/src/kind.rs`