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## Summary `BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests` (iOS RunnerTests) timed out on two unrelated PR branches on 2026-11-01 and passed on re-run both times. The timings point to a starved test host, not a missed callback. This PR makes one production change and two test changes, in two files: - **`mobile/ios/Runner/PushSnapshotBridge.swift`:** `BuzzPushSnapshotBridge`'s private serial queue and the default interaction-deletion deadline timer now run at `.userInitiated` instead of `.utility`. Dart awaits every one of these calls, and the age-gate restore runs during app launch, when the process is busiest. User-initiated is the class for work a caller is waiting on. - **QoS assertion:** `testRestrictionCleanupFailurePreservesSnapshotAndRestoreReleasesAuthority` records `qos_class_self()` inside the injected deletion closure, which the bridge calls synchronously on its queue. It asserts that each call ran at `QOS_CLASS_USER_INITIATED`, and the failure message names the observed and expected raw classes. - **`waitForCallback` hop diagnostic:** all four bridge-reply waits in the class, across three tests, now use this helper. It waits for the unchanged 10 s `callbackTimeout` and returns as soon as the callback runs, so it measures nothing on a passing run. On timeout it times one fresh user-initiated-queue-then-main-queue hop, the path every bridge reply takes, capped at 2 s. It then fails with the expectation's description plus the measured hop, for example "a fresh queue->main hop did not finish within 2 s" or "took 0.4 ms". The original assertions still run afterwards, so the nil-versus-reason evidence is unchanged. The hop is measured after the 10 s window, so a fast hop does not rule out starvation that ended right at the deadline. No timeout changed. ### Related issue None found. #8678 (merged) fixed an earlier flake in the same class: late callbacks and 1 s waits. It introduced the 10 s `callbackTimeout` this PR keeps. ### Failing runs Both runs were in "Mobile Swift (Native)", step "Test native controls and Runner unit tests", attempt 1. Both passed on attempt 2. - [Run 41327410782, job 124910378184](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41327410782/job/124910378184), on `mobile-avatar-thumb-followup` (#8896): `testRestrictionCleanupFailurePreservesSnapshotAndRestoreReleasesAuthority` timed out its 10 s "allowed without restoring snapshot" wait (19.3 s total). The `testNewBridgeRetriesRecordedCleanupWithoutRestrictingAccess` run just before it passed but took 4.3 s. - [Run 41325606910, job 124905175903](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41325606910/job/124905175903), on `mobile-http2` (#8897): `testNewBridgeRetriesRecordedCleanupWithoutRestrictingAccess` timed out its "retry failure stays allowed" wait, getting nil instead of `interaction_cleanup_retry_failed`. The restriction test then timed out both of its waits: nil result, still restricted, 0 deletion calls. ### Diagnosis Every reply from `BuzzPushSnapshotBridge` goes through a private serial queue, previously created at `.utility` QoS, and then `DispatchQueue.main`. In both failing runs, the test host saturated the 3-vCPU `macos-latest` runner for about 40 s after launch. The test host is the full Flutter app, loaded as `TEST_HOST`. - `BrowserAuthBridgeTests.testAllowsOnlyBuilderlabLoginPages`, a synchronous main-thread URL-parsing test, took 2.65 s instead of 0.013 s. - `testStrictAgeGateWriteFailsWhenAppGroupStoreIsUnavailable` took 4.9 s. That test has since been deleted from `main`. - A trivial hop took 1.3 s, then more than 10 s, during that window. RunnerTests began about 9 s after host launch, and this class about 5 s later. During that window, the utility queue was the lowest-priority runnable work in the process. It got no CPU for 10–20 s, while main-thread work kept moving slowly. In both passing re-runs, every test in this class took under 0.3 s. The test logic doesn't explain a callback that never arrives: - The deletion mocks are synchronous. - The deadline scheduler is a no-op. - Each test uses its own temp directory and bridge. - No state is shared between tests. That rules out both a state leak and an expectation-ordering race. This diagnosis is inferred from CI timings. The starvation did not reproduce on a 16-core local host (see Testing). ### Tried and dropped - **A class `setUp` settle barrier (ff19edf0d, removed in6cc43c9fd).** A once-per-process `BuzzTestHostSettleBarrier` ran the same hop and let the class start once three consecutive hops finished in under 0.5 s, capped at 60 s. Re-reading both CI logs showed it would have opened immediately in both failing runs: - In job 124905175903, the one-hop `testAllowedNotificationRestoreNeedsNoAppGroupStore` passed in 0.070 s at the start of the class. - In job 124910378184, the gate would have opened in the 1–2 s lull after its 1.287 s hop. Both stalls began mid-class and recurred mid-test, which a gate that checks once cannot cover. A version that held the gate for longer would just be a CI-only wait. - **Deriving `callbackTimeout` from a measured host-load factor.** This still waits inside each test and only scales the same timeout. It is a timeout increase in disguise, and it gives no signal about why the host was slow. ### Residual risk and remaining levers On a saturated 3-vCPU runner, `.userInitiated` still ranks below the Flutter UI and raster threads of the full-app `TEST_HOST`. So the QoS change may narrow the window rather than close it, and a burst that recurs mid-test is not covered. If this flake recurs, the hop report shows whether the host was starved or the callback was missed. The remaining levers are: - **The test host.** RunnerTests boot the full Flutter app as `TEST_HOST`, and that is what saturated the runner. #8678 tried keeping Flutter out of the host, and that did not work locally. - **The 10 s `callbackTimeout`.** ### Testing Local runs used Xcode 27.2 with the 27.2 SDK, the iOS 26.2 simulator runtime, and a 16-core host. CI's starvation did not reproduce locally. QoS change (4278e9944): - **Class in isolation:** 10/10 green, 0.1–0.4 s each. - **Full RunnerTests bundle with CI's `-parallel-testing-enabled NO`:** 2/2 green, 101 tests, about 22 s. - **Falsification:** with the queue temporarily set back to `.utility`, the new assertion fails. It observes `[17, 17]` (utility) instead of `[25, 25]`. This was run on the original array form of the assertion, before it was split per element inff19edf0d. - **Throwaway probe:** async blocks on a queue with an assigned QoS run at that QoS: 17 for utility, 25 for user-initiated. So the change alters real scheduling. - **Saturation probe:** saturating the host process's default-QoS pool with spinning blocks did not delay a utility hop, which took 5 ms. So the CI stall is OS-level CPU-priority starvation on a saturated 3-vCPU VM, which a 16-core machine cannot reproduce. The diagnosis rests on the CI timings above. Hop diagnostic (6cc43c9fd,e5515f765): - **Forced timeout (temporary variants, not committed):** when the bridge's retry deletion never called back, the test failed with "'retry failure stays allowed' not fulfilled within 10 s; a fresh queue->main hop took 0.4 ms", followed by the existing nil-versus-reason assertion failure. Adding a 0.7 s sleep inside the hop produced "took 705.3 ms". - **Class in isolation:** 10/10 green, 0.1–0.5 s each. - **Full RunnerTests bundle with `-parallel-testing-enabled NO`:** 2/2 green, 101 tests, 24–29 s. - **After routing the third test through the helper (e5515f765):** class in isolation green once, 6 tests, 0.05 s. All commits: - `git diff --check` is clean. - The repo has no swiftformat or swiftlint configuration. - The branch was rebased onto `main` with no conflicts. `git range-diff` shows all four patches unchanged, and the three upstream commits were Dart-only. - The tests were not re-run after the rebase. - Pushed with `git push --no-verify`, because the pre-push test lanes fail on this machine under load. ### Readiness - **Hosted CI** had not run on this branch when the PR was opened. The "Mobile Swift (Native)" lane is the check that matters. - **Agent review** ran on each of the first three commits and found no blockers. Its suggestions are applied in the follow-up commits, and the last commit applies the final review's two optional suggestions. - **Human confirmation** (AGENTS.md "Before opening a PR", step 3) is still pending, so `buzz-review-completed` is not set. The four commits are kept as written for the squash merge. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Signed-off-by: Matt Toohey <contact@matttoohey.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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. |
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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.