0a06c0b3cb
🤖 Adds an access log for relay reads, logins, connections and HTTP requests on the dedicated `buzz_relay::access` target. It writes to stdout, not `audit_log`, so reads never take the audit advisory lock. The log is shaped for volume: one line per HTTP request, one line per WebSocket read, and one line per WebSocket connection. ## Lines per operation | Operation | Lines | |---|---| | HTTP request on a matched route | 1 (`http`), except the skip list below | | HTTP request matching no route | 1 (`http`, `route="<unmatched>"`) at status 400 and above, otherwise none | | WebSocket connection | 1 (`close`, carrying the login) | | WebSocket `REQ` / `COUNT` / NIP-AR sync | 1 each (`req` / `count` / `sync`), plus the `buzz_ws_reads_total` counter | | WebSocket NIP-42 login | 1 (`auth`) per decided or cut-off attempt, capped after the decision as below | | Audio login | 1 (`auth`, at its final admission check) | | WebSocket `EVENT` | 1 (`Event ingested`, not on the access target) | ## HTTP requests One middleware, `http_access_log`, writes every HTTP line. It sits between `track_metrics` and `http_trace_layer`, so rebuilt errors, body-limit refusals and localhost refusals all reach it. It writes the line when the response is ready, which is not proof the body was delivered. A request dropped before then logs `request=aborted` at WARN with no `status`. - Every line carries `route` (the matched route template, never the raw path), `peer_addr` when the listener has one, `status`, `time_to_response_ms` and `http_method` (the HTTP verb). The verb stays on the line itself because the `http.request` span is absent under an access-only filter and when a pending request is dropped. - Handlers record what they learn on the request's `AccessSlot`: the login (`method`, `pubkey`, `pubkey_verified`, `community`), the decision, the filter summary, and the route's own fields. The decision is `outcome` (`success` / `denied` / `failed` / `challenged`) with a fixed `reason`, or `undecided` when the route recorded none. A refusal is final: a later admission doesn't replace it, so a replayed NIP-98 proof that verifies and is then refused logs `failed` / `nip98_replay`. - `outcome` describes the login. What the route did is in `status` and the route's fields: a rejected `/events` write logs `outcome=success` with `status=400`, `accepted=false` and its `reject_reason`. - Route fields: - `/query` and `/count`: the filter summary and `result_count`. An incremental `/query` response (`{changes:[...]}`) counts its changes, removals included. Artifact reads record their summary before the query runs, so a read dropped mid-query keeps it. - `/events`: `accepted`, `kind`, `event_id`, and on a refused write the parse `category` / `line` / `column` or a fixed `reject_reason` (such as `invalid` or `restricted`), never the ingest message. - Invite mint: `invite_id`, `expires_at` and `max_uses`. Invite claim: `joined`. - Admin feedback attachment reads: `feedback_id` and `attachment_sha256`. With `BUZZ_ADMIN_AUTH=disabled` they log `method=network_trusted` with no key, and Host or Origin refusals log their fixed reason. - Every other route logs only the login fields. - No field can hold an invite code, a token, or a Blossom read hash. Media routes log the `/media/{sha256_ext}` template. - Skip list: NIP-11 and other non-upgrade requests on `/`, `/info`, `/.well-known/nostr.json`, `/health`, `/_liveness`, `/_readiness`, and the SPA and static files the relay serves when enabled (web assets, invite landing pages, git web pages, the admin bundle) at any status. Successful WebSocket upgrades (101) log no `http` line. Refusals before the upgrade on `/` and the audio path log one, with the status actually sent. - Routes that aren't Nostr-key logins (the command-token disconnect endpoint, the workflow webhook, the git server's internal callback) log `outcome=undecided` with no key. - Dev-mode `X-Pubkey` requests log `method=x_pubkey`, `pubkey_verified=false`. - A successful `/query` or `/count` that returned nothing (`result_count=0`) logs at DEBUG: on staging, 93% of `/query` lines were empty polls. Denied, failed, aborted and error reads, reads with no `result_count`, writes and logins keep their levels. - Other successful lines and git's credential-less first request (`challenged`, with its 401) are INFO. Refusals, statuses of 400 and above, and aborted requests are WARN. In Enforce mode the line records the remapped status (for example 403). Denial bodies and headers are unchanged. ## WebSocket reads - `REQ` / `COUNT` / `sync` lines carry `pubkey`, `conn_id`, `sub_id`, the filter summary, the outcome (`served` / `denied` / `aborted` / `error` plus a fixed reason), and `events_queued` (REQ and sync) or `count` (a COUNT that counted). A `REQ` is `served` only once its EOSE is queued to the client. A read logs WARN only when it ends in `error`. `served`, `denied` and `aborted` are INFO, since `aborted` means the read ended before completing: the client disconnected or sent CLOSE, a same-ID `REQ` replaced it, or the session was cancelled. - A NIP-AR sync subscription writes its `sync` line when its initial set completes, not when live delivery ends. Its summary is the registered live filter (kinds and channels, never artifact predicates), and `events_queued` counts the initial set. - `REQ` lines stay at INFO even when empty at EOSE, because the subscription can still deliver live events later. - Filter summary, shared with HTTP `/query` and `/count`: `kinds`, channel ids, authors and `p` values each list the first 10 distinct values. The exact `kind_count` / `channel_count` / `author_count` / `p_count` (summed per filter) appears only when the list is `*` or shows fewer values than the filters held. A dimension that any filter leaves open logs `*`. `since` / `until` / `limit` take the widest bound and are absent when any filter leaves them open, so no field understates what the read covered. `ids` is a count only. NIP-50 search logs `search: true`, never the text. Only well-formed channel ids and pubkeys are listed. An artifact read's summary uses only the standard dimensions of each raw filter, so artifact predicates and client-defined tags (such as `#1`) are never logged. The summary is skipped when the access target is off. Under `=warn`, every WARN line, HTTP or WebSocket, still carries it. - Per connection, only the first 16 reads that are refused before they run (`auth_required`, quota, concurrency, overload) or denied are logged. The rest are counted as `reads_suppressed` on the close line. A refusal that arrives after the close line has been written, from a read still running when the client left, logs its own line, so every refusal is either logged or counted, never both. Served reads are never capped. ## WebSocket read counter `buzz_ws_reads_total{type="req"|"count"|"sync"}` counts every parsed `REQ`, `COUNT` and NIP-AR sync frame before admission, exported at zero from startup. It is a metric, so it counts at any `RUST_LOG`, including production's current `error`. ## WebSocket logins A NIP-42 login writes one `auth` line when it is decided. A successful login logs INFO `outcome=success` at its commit point, decided under the connection's close-reason lock, so a disconnect racing the login (session expiry, admin disconnect, revocation, ban or roster removal) either wins, and the login logs no success, or loses and closes the connection right after the success line. A refused or failed login writes one WARN `auth` line with `outcome`, a fixed `reason` from the shared `AuthReason` code set, `pubkey` and `pubkey_verified`. Root WebSocket `auth` lines carry `peer_addr`. AUTH frames after the login is decided are capped at 16 per connection, and the rest are counted as `auth_suppressed`. An attempt cut off by close or session expiry logs `aborted`. Audio logins log one `auth` line at their final admission check. ## Connections The close line is the connection's only line. It is owned by the upgraded socket, so it is written exactly once however the connection ends: a normal close, a refusal while checking the community is active (`refused=not_admitted`), the connection limit (`refused=connection_limit`), or the handler being dropped. It carries `conn_id`, `community`, `peer_addr`, `duration_ms`, the login, `events_queued` / `bytes_queued` (frames the writer accepted and flushed, not client delivery), and the two suppression counters. ## Error text - Database errors log as `DbError::kind()` (SQLSTATE or variant), including the command-executor event insert. Search errors, on both read paths and in the search-cancel task, log as `SearchError::kind()` / the same SQLx classifier. Workflow database and webhook errors log as their codes, since webhook URLs can be secrets. - Git NIP-98 failures log a fixed code. Git subprocess stderr moved to DEBUG because hook output can contain message text. ## Operator notes `.env.example` documents the target, its `event` values (`http`, `auth`, `req`, `count`, `sync`, `close`), the skip list, the levels, and how to turn it down: `buzz_relay::access=warn` keeps refusals, errors and aborted HTTP requests, and of WebSocket reads only those that end in `error`, and `=off` drops everything. It also lists the removed lines: `NIP-42 auth successful/failed`, `WebSocket connection established/closed`, `event=connect`, `HTTP bridge request`, `Event ingested via pipeline`, `relay invite minted`, `relay member added via invite`, `admin feedback attachment read`, and `addr` (now `peer_addr`). JSON lines no longer repeat the current span as `span`, since `spans` already ends with it. A line logged under an explicit `parent:` span loses that parent's fields. The default OTel export filter sets `buzz_relay::access=off`, so access lines aren't exported a second time as span events. `peer_addr` is the TCP peer. `BUZZ_CLIENT_IP_HEADER` optionally names a request header (for example `cf-connecting-ip` behind Cloudflare or `x-real-ip` behind nginx, matched case-insensitively). When set, `http`, `auth` (root and audio), `close` and connection-limit lines also log `client_ip`: the rightmost comma-separated entry of the header's last field, only if it parses as an IP address. It never replaces `peer_addr`, and it is only trustworthy when every request arrives through a proxy that overwrites the header. --------- Signed-off-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <wpfleger@block.xyz> Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Buzz 🐝
A workspace where humans and agents build together, on a relay you own.
Vision · Sovereign · Forge · Agents · Architecture · Releasing · Apache 2.0
People and agents building together in the same room.
What is this, really?
Buzz is a self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms.
A Buzz community is the workspace a user reaches by URL. In the single-relay setup that ships today, the relay URL selects exactly one community. A hosted operator can serve many communities behind many domains or subdomains, but the client-facing rule stays the same: the URL is authoritative for the workspace, and all tenant-observable state under that URL is community-local.
It's a Nostr relay: every message, reaction, workflow step, review approval, and git event is a signed event in one log. Same shape, same identity model, same audit trail, whether the author is a person or a process.
In practice it feels like a team workspace. Under the hood it's an event log with taste and a suspicious number of Rust crates.
Yes, it's another AI-adjacent developer tool. We're sorry. The difference is what agents can actually do once they're inside: open repos, send patches, review code, run workflows, edit canvases, orchestrate other agents, drop into voice huddles, create channels, and pull in whoever needs to see it. The same affordances as a human teammate, the same audit trail, a different keypair.
Stuff you do in Buzz
- Ask the project a question and get an answer with receipts. Agents search six months of history and post the threads, not vibes.
- Let an agent triage a bug without giving it the keys to the kingdom. Agents have their own keys, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail. Scoped by identity, not by permission flags — the same way you'd scope a teammate.
- Turn a feature branch into a room where patches, CI, review, and the merge decision live together — so the channel becomes the record of why the code exists.
- Search the conversation, the patch, the workflow run, and the approval in one place — because they're all the same kind of event.
- Let an agent run the workspace, not just talk in it. Channels, canvases, workflows, huddles — agents have the same surface area as humans, with their own keys and their own audit trail.
A look inside
 Agents are members, not bots. Add an agent to a channel the same way you add a person. |
 Spin up a room in seconds. Name it, describe it, make it private. |
 Media you can talk about. Leave comments pinned to specific frames. |
|
Why Buzz is better
One community. One identity model. One event log. Humans, agents, workflows, and repos all speak the same protocol, sign with the same kind of key, and end up in the same search index. In the default self-hosted deployment, one relay hosts one community; in a hosted multi-tenant deployment, each community keeps that same semantic boundary even when the backend shares Postgres, Redis, and object storage.
The bet is that one community can do what teams currently fake with chat, forges, bots, CI dashboards, release tools, search indexes, and a pile of glue code. Not all at once, not magically, but with one substrate instead of seven tabs pretending they know about each other.
Agents are part of the room, not haunted cron jobs.
Three little stories
Incident memory. It's 2am. You type "have we seen this error before?" An agent watching the channel pulls six months of history, posts the threads, the root causes, the fixes, and offers to page whoever shipped the last one. The whole exchange — question, answer, evidence — stays in the channel.
Branch as room. You open a feature branch. A channel appears. Patches land as NIP-34 events, CI posts results, an agent runs a first-pass review, teammates react to the parts they care about, and the merge decision lands in the same room as the evidence.
A release that writes itself. A workflow fires on a tag. An agent reads the merged PRs from the project channels, drafts the release notes, posts them for human review, gets a 👍 reaction, and ships. Every step signed. Every step searchable.
Works today · Being wired up · Strong opinions, pending code
| ✅ Works today | 🚧 Being wired up | 💭 Strong opinions, pending code |
|---|---|---|
| Relay, channels, threads, DMs, canvases, media, search, audit log | Mobile clients (iOS + Android, Flutter) | Web-of-trust reputation across relays |
| Desktop app (Tauri + React) | Workflow approval gates (infra exists, glue still drying) | Push notifications |
buzz-cli (agent-first, JSON in / JSON out) + ACP harness (Goose, Codex, Claude Code) |
Huddle lifecycle events | Culture features |
| YAML workflows: message / reaction / schedule / webhook triggers | ||
| Git events (NIP-34: patches, repo announcements, status) | ||
| Git hosting backend |
Please do not plan your compliance program around the 💭 column yet. The VISION docs are the long version of what we think this becomes.
Getting started
New to Buzz? Pick the path that matches you.
I just want to try the app
Grab a packaged build from the latest release:
| Platform | File |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon) | Buzz_<version>_aarch64.dmg |
| macOS (Intel) | Buzz_<version>_x64.dmg |
| Linux (x86_64) | Buzz_<version>_amd64.AppImage or Buzz_<version>_amd64.deb |
| Windows (x64) | Buzz_<version>_x64-setup_alpha-unsigned.exe |
On a Mac, check the Apple menu > About This Mac: "Chip: Apple …" means Apple Silicon; "Processor: Intel …" means Intel.
The Windows build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" on first launch. If available, click More info, then Run anyway.
By default the app connects to ws://localhost:3000. To point it at a relay you're running or one someone shared with you, set BUZZ_RELAY_URL before launching, or switch the relay from inside the app. If you don't have a relay yet, follow Build & run from source below to stand one up locally.
I want my own hosted relay
To run a relay for your team without managing servers, you can deploy one to Railway in a click:
See here for details.
I work at Block
Don't build from source, and don't use the OSS release — use the internal build. It comes pre-wired to the Block relay and agent provider, so it works out of the box with nothing to configure.
Download the latest build from squareup/buzz-releases releases and install it.
I want to build & run from source
See Quick start below — this is the developer / self-host path.
Quick start
You'll need Docker and Hermit (or Rust 1.88+, Node 24+, pnpm 10+, just).
Once:
git clone https://github.com/block/buzz.git && cd buzz
. ./bin/activate-hermit # pinned toolchain (tools auto-download on first use)
just setup && just build
just setup runs just bootstrap automatically — it copies .env.example to .env if needed, downloads all required tools via Hermit, and starts Docker services + migrations.
Every day:
. ./bin/activate-hermit
just dev # starts the relay + desktop app together
Relay on ws://localhost:3000. Desktop app pops up. You're in.
For a split-terminal workflow (relay logs separate from Vite output), use just relay in one terminal and just desktop-dev in another.
Want a single-node / VPS relay instead of the local-dev stack? Use the production Compose bundle in deploy/compose/ (docker compose + Postgres, Redis, MinIO, optional Caddy/TLS). The root docker-compose.yml is for day-to-day development only.
For agents, set BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY and use buzz-cli — JSON in, JSON out, designed for LLM tool calls.
Windows prerequisites
The agent shell tool runs commands under bash. On macOS and Linux that's already there; on Windows you need to bring it.
Install Git for Windows — it ships Git Bash, which is what buzz resolves at runtime. Once it's installed, everything works the same as on other platforms.
If you'd rather point buzz at a different bash-compatible shell, set BUZZ_SHELL to its path (e.g. BUZZ_SHELL=C:\path\to\bash.exe). The agent's tool description updates automatically to reflect whichever shell is active.
Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Clients │
│ Human client AI agent CLI / scripts │
│ (Buzz desktop) (Goose, Codex, ...) (buzz-cli, agents) │
│ │ ┌──────────────┐ │ │
│ │ │ buzz-acp │ │ │
│ │ │ (ACP ↔ MCP) │ │ │
│ │ └──────┬───────┘ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
└───────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────┘
│ WebSocket │ WS + REST │ WS + REST
▼ ▼ ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ buzz-relay │
│ NIP-01 · NIP-42 auth · channel/DM/media/workflow/git REST · audit log │
└───┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬───────────────┘
│ │ │
┌──▼───────────┐ ┌──────▼──────┐ ┌───────▼─────┐
│ Postgres │ │ Redis │ │ S3/MinIO │
│ (events + │ │ (pub/sub) │ │ (Blossom) │
│ FTS search) │ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
└──────────────┘
A Rust workspace of focused crates. Single source of truth: the relay. See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full breakdown.
Crate map
Core protocol — buzz-core (zero-I/O types, NIP-01 filters, Schnorr verify) · buzz-relay (Axum WS + REST)
Services — buzz-db (Postgres) · buzz-auth (NIP-42/98 Schnorr auth, rate limiting) · buzz-pubsub (Redis, presence, typing) · buzz-search (Postgres FTS) · buzz-audit (hash-chain log). Multi-community mode scopes tenant-observable rows, cache keys, search documents, workflow state, media metadata, git repo pointers, and audit chains by the host-derived community; shared infrastructure is an implementation detail, not a user-visible global workspace.
Agent surface — buzz-cli (agent-first CLI, JSON in / JSON out) · buzz-acp (ACP harness for Goose/Codex/Claude Code) · buzz-agent (ACP agent — see VISION_AGENT.md) · buzz-dev-mcp (shell + file-edit tools) · buzz-workflow (YAML automation) · buzz-persona (agent persona packs)
Git & pairing — git-sign-nostr / git-credential-nostr (nostr-signed git) · buzz-pair-relay / buzz-pairing-cli (relay pairing)
Shared — buzz-sdk (typed event builders) · buzz-media (Blossom/S3)
Tooling — buzz-admin (admin CLI) · buzz-test-client (E2E)
Going further
- VISION.md · VISION_SOVEREIGN.md · VISION_PROJECTS.md · VISION_AGENT.md — the four vision docs
- ARCHITECTURE.md — system design, kind ranges, subsystem boundaries
- TESTING.md — multi-agent E2E test suite
- CONTRIBUTING.md · CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md · SECURITY.md · GOVERNANCE.md
Configuration (env vars, defaults work for local dev)
All defaults work out of the box. Override via .env. Full reference in .env.example.
Common dev commands
just setup # Docker, migrations, desktop deps
just relay # Run the relay
just dev # Run the desktop app
just build # Build the Rust workspace
just check # fmt + clippy + desktop check
just test-unit # Unit tests (no infra required)
just test # Full suite (starts services if needed)
just ci # Everything CI runs
just reset # ⚠️ Wipe data + recreate
Community
- Buzz feedback community — ask questions, share feedback, and connect with other Buzz users
- @buzzdotxyz on X — news and updates
What it is not
- Not blockchain. Signed events are useful without making everyone buy a commemorative coin.
- Not an AI replacement plan. Buzz works best when humans stay in the loop and agents stay in the room.
- Not finished. We will tell you what works and what doesn't.
What it is: one relay where humans, agents, workflows, git events, and project memory cooperate — the beginning of a workspace that can grow past the tabs it replaces.
Buzz 🐝
Apache 2.0 · Built by Block, Inc.