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## Summary Implements NIP-AR channel artifacts (spec merged in #7791) on the relay, after a simplicity pass over the earlier two-agent implementation. An artifact is an editable record (kind 45010) with a stable identity (`d`), one home channel (`h`), and full-snapshot revisions chained by `prev`: - **Writes:** one transaction per write. It locks the artifact's head row, requires `prev` to name the current revision, records the revision in a ledger that survives retention, and advances the head. Two competing edits can't both win. A stale edit gets `conflict: artifact head changed`. Resubmitting an accepted event succeeds without applying it twice. - **Permissions:** writes pass the same gates as a kind 9 message in `h`. A move also passes them in the source channel. The move stores the destination snapshot and a relay-signed kind 45011 removal marker for the source in the same transaction, so both channels recover by replay. The marker never names the destination. - **Moderation:** redaction is the ordinary kind 9005 removal. The ledger keeps the ID so `prev` checks still work. Redacting the current revision retires the artifact. - **Reads:** HTTP `/query` and `/count` accept explicit `artifact: current|history` filters with exact multi-character tag matching (e.g. `#assignee`). Generic REQ and search return only current revisions. Kind 5 against artifacts is rejected. NIP-11 advertises the limits. - **Spec:** NIP-AR updated to match: kind 9 permission checks, 9005 redaction and retirement, no creator-only delete rule. A separate small commit routes `insert_channel_head_checked` through the metered writer pool (`acquire_writer`), like every other event write in that module. ### Related issue Follows #7791. No separate issue found. ### Testing - Clippy clean. - Unit lane passes. Failures seen along the way came from agent env leaking into `buzz-acp` tests (they pass in a clean env) and known timing flakes (`keepalive_resets_idle_past_deadline`, two `buzz-agent` databricks tests that passed on retry). This diff doesn't touch those crates. - Postgres lane passes, including new `artifact_postgres_tests` in `buzz-db` and `buzz-relay`. Three presence tests need `REDIS_URL` set. - Docker smoke against a fresh local relay, 29/29: create and idempotent resubmit, update and stale conflict, current, `#assignee` and history queries, generic REQ, kind 5 rejection, delete and restore, move with source marker, private-channel isolation, and 9005 retirement. - A pasteable curl walkthrough of the same flows was shared with the reviewer. Draft until the human hands-on check (AGENTS.md step 3) is confirmed. The pre-push hook was skipped because every lane above had already run on this tree. CI is the gate. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Signed-off-by: Honey <8e307ae0076a4dab6b94b036ea3edc7e08f823a625269c1e6919e881a048b4d2@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Signed-off-by: murderbot <3754f8729004d95654c46dbab3129e4ab9ef05cc2534e2a3fbfc155983bd637b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Honey <8e307ae0076a4dab6b94b036ea3edc7e08f823a625269c1e6919e881a048b4d2@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Smartie <fb3185faacfc3760b6b4fe0085a8878d8dd537f7a7671c7d3184fe1aa1b04df4@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Fizz <400e8babadcee6a7f420103f10a2849d84c4a9c71d5bd04f3948c814216648a3@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: murderbot <3754f8729004d95654c46dbab3129e4ab9ef05cc2534e2a3fbfc155983bd637b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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NIP-AR
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Channel Artifacts
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-----------------
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`draft` `optional` `relay`
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Defines `kind:45010` for editable records called **artifacts**. Each artifact has one home channel and may be attached to a thread. Its home determines who can read it. Any number of artifacts, including of the same type, may share a channel or thread.
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The relay manages identity, access, and revisions. Clients define the content types, such as `buzz.task` or `buzz.project`.
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## Event format
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Each event contains a complete snapshot. For example, a task created directly in a channel (standard signing fields omitted):
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```json
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{
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"kind": 45010,
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"tags": [
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["ar", "1"],
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["d", "04737c81-e5e8-4412-bb47-f446813cfeba"],
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["h", "9b353519-f4fe-4757-aef4-bec6cc0ae54c"],
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["type", "buzz.task"],
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["title", "Fix the payment timeout"],
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["op", "create"],
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["assignee", "<assignee-pubkey>"],
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["project", "17cfe3ca-b3d0-4a76-a2a4-4eaf0d3a4109"]
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],
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"content": "{\"version\":1,\"status\":\"open\"}"
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}
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```
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The `assignee` and `project` tags and the payload are illustrative, not required fields; this NIP does not define a task schema.
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| Tag | Meaning |
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| --- | --- |
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| `ar` | Envelope version; `1`. |
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| `d` | Stable artifact UUID. |
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| `h` | Home channel UUID. |
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| `type` | Namespaced content type. |
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| `title` | Absent on `delete`; otherwise required, nonblank display title, at most 512 UTF-8 bytes. |
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| `op` | `create`, `update`, `move`, `delete`, or `restore`. |
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| `root` | Optional conversation anchor event ID within `h`. |
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| `prev` | Previous accepted revision ID; required except on creation. |
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Each listed tag has exactly two string elements and occurs once, except optional tags may be absent and `title` MUST be absent on `delete`. UUIDs are lowercase, hyphenated, and non-nil; event IDs are 64 lowercase hex characters. Type names are dot-separated lowercase ASCII components, each starting with a letter and otherwise using letters, digits, `_`, or `-`, up to 128 bytes total. `buzz.*` is reserved for published Buzz client contracts.
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Relays MUST reject invalid envelopes, unsupported envelope versions, and events with more than 256 tags. Normal event-size and write quotas apply.
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Clients place fields needed for filtering in client-defined tags. The relay matches tag names and values without interpreting their meaning; `content` remains opaque text. Client-defined tags cannot override the envelope or grant access.
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## Identity and edits
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An artifact is identified by `(community, d)`, independently of its author or home. `d` and `type` are immutable. Kind 45010 is a regular stored event, not a NIP-01 addressable event. It falls in Buzz's forum and social kind range (45000–45999) but is not a forum post and follows none of the forum rules.
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Creation requires an unused `d`, `op=create`, and no `prev`. Every later revision MUST name the current accepted event in `prev`. The relay checks authorization and advances the current revision atomically: two competing edits cannot both succeed. Timestamps do not choose the winner.
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Resubmitting an already accepted event succeeds without applying it again, even if a later revision has since become current, so a client that lost an acknowledgement never sees a false conflict. The response reveals nothing the sender can no longer read. A different event whose `prev` is not the current revision is a conflict. On conflict, clients fetch the current revision and reconcile their changes rather than resubmitting with only `prev` replaced, which would overwrite the competing edit. An `update` keeps `h`; a `move` changes it.
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A `create` whose `d` is already in use fails. When the sender cannot read the existing artifact, the error reveals only that the identity is taken, never its home, type, title, or current revision. Clients MAY derive `d` deterministically, for example from the message an artifact tracks, and accept that disclosure.
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On creation or when changed from the previous accepted revision, `root` MUST identify an existing, undeleted conversation anchor in `h`. Later loss of that anchor does not prevent edits. Replies belong to that conversation, not to an artifact revision.
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## Access
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Channel read permission governs every artifact read, including lookups, history, search, previews, counts, and live updates. Threads inherit their channel's audience. Membership and visibility changes take effect on subsequent reads and deliveries.
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Write permission means permission to post a kind-9 message in the channel, including authentication, token restrictions, moderation, and archive checks. Relays apply these checks the same way, and at the same point, as for a kind-9 message. This includes agents and, where channel policy permits, nonmembers of open channels. Artifact writes use `messages:write`, the scope that admits kind-9 posting.
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| Operation | Required permission |
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| --- | --- |
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| Create, update, delete, or restore | Write in the home channel. |
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| Move | Write in both source and destination. |
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These rules apply to every type and do not depend on who created the artifact. DM participants are peers. The relay determines channel type from the stored channel, not from an artifact tag.
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Relationship tags organize work without changing access. Linking a task to a project does not move it or share it. References to repositories or other services retain those services' access and action permissions. Errors MUST NOT disclose inaccessible artifact details.
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## Moving and deleting
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A move publishes the current snapshot into the destination under the same `d`. Its `root` must be absent or belong to the destination. Clients MUST show the destination audience and the information being shared before confirmation.
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The relay MUST atomically advance the current revision and store both arrival in the destination and removal from the source. The source receives a separate relay-authenticated removal identifying the artifact, source scope, and the revision it replaced, without destination metadata or content. Both are stored events, so a client that misses live delivery recovers them by replaying the channel. Relays unable to provide this MUST reject moves.
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Earlier revisions remain under their original channels' access rules; a move never lets the destination read revisions from the source. The destination can load current state without reading earlier revisions. Conversation messages stay where they are.
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Deletion is a soft delete: a revision with `op=delete`, empty content, and no `title` tag. It preserves the current `type`, `h`, and `root`, and contains only envelope tags and NIP-OA `auth` tags the relay has verified. It removes the artifact from current-state queries and active views. Its revisions stay readable under their channels' access rules until redacted or expired by retention, so a lookup by `d` returns the deletion. After deletion, only `restore` is accepted: it names the deletion in `prev`, keeps its `h`, and carries a complete snapshot that becomes the current state again. A deleted `d` stays reserved and is never reused for another artifact. Completing or archiving work is a content change, not deletion or channel archival.
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## Moderation and retention
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Relays MUST reject kind-5 deletion requests targeting artifact revisions with an explicit reason. A NIP-29 kind-9005 removal redacts a revision under the channel's ordinary message-removal rules: the relay withholds that revision from every surface, including lookups, history, and search. The relay still records the revision as accepted, so redaction never changes which revision is current, and its ID remains valid as `prev`. Redacting an artifact's current revision retires the artifact: it is absent from current-state queries, and clients that do not already hold that revision's ID cannot edit it further. Revision history is subject to the community's retention policy; expiring earlier revisions MUST NOT remove the current revision or break `prev` checks.
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## Current state and queries
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An artifact's current state is its latest accepted revision, as determined by the `prev` rules above. Current-state queries MUST return only that revision and omit deleted artifacts. For example, a task whose current revision belongs to Project B no longer appears in Project A's list, even if an earlier revision belonged there. Revision history is queried separately. This NIP does not define a public acceptance order or history pagination; relays record the order in which they accept revisions, and a later sync specification defines how clients observe it.
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Relays MUST support querying current artifacts across channels the reader can access using exact tag-name/value matches, including multi-character tag names. Conditions on different tag names are combined with AND; requested values for one name are combined with OR. A match compares the tag name and its first value in the same tag. Access checks and tag matching apply before pagination and any counts. Older revisions do not contribute matches.
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Relays MUST advertise and enforce limits on tag-name/value sizes, total tag bytes, query predicates and values, and page size. Queries MUST run within an enforced execution budget. Unsupported or over-limit requests fail explicitly; predicates MUST NOT be silently ignored or incomplete results presented as complete.
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Artifact revisions are state changes, not conversation messages. Receiving one MUST NOT increase chat or reply counts, add a chat unread, mark a conversation read, or repeat mention or push notifications for tags carried over from the previous revision.
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## Client behavior
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Clients validate content before interpreting it as a known type. Unknown types or malformed content render a safe fallback using the title, type, and home link. Editors MUST preserve unfamiliar fields and annotation tags or decline the edit. References may be unavailable or cyclic; clients must handle them safely without assuming relay validation.
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Artifact text is untrusted. A type name, relationship tag, or payload cannot authorize a privileged action. Moving, deleting, or revoking access cannot erase copies already downloaded.
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