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## Summary An operator can submit, approve, and run a synthetic user-deletion request through a durable workflow. The actions print messages; they do not gate real users or delete data. The inventory contains artificial participant and former-participant communities. The worker calls one transition function, `get_next_stage(lease, previous_stage_id)`. It receives a full stage row, passes it to the handler, then asks again. All branching, community tracking, initialization, and recovery live behind that function. Existing community-deletion execution is unchanged. ### Related issue Builds on merged #8496 and targets `main`. Inventory, separate approval records, and the dummy executor remain together in this PR. ### Execution design ```text approve → save approval; create no stages run → claim request get_next_stage(lease, None) → full stage row handler(lease, row) → persist status and result get_next_stage(lease, Some(row.id)) → next row / Finished / WaitUntil repeat, then release ownership ``` - **Approval:** bind an operator's decision to the saved inventory digest. Approval creates no execution rows. Operator names remain self-asserted demo input. - **Initialization:** claiming preserves the parent lifecycle. The first transition creates `gate_user` and changes `approved` to `running` atomically. A crash after claim but before initialization can safely restart. - **Handler:** read `metadata_json.inputs`, mark the row running, and save its result or failure. A successful action leaves its row `completed` and `is_current = true`. This is a durable transition waiting to be processed. - **Transition:** lock the parent, validate ownership, reload history and the handler's saved result, and choose an allowed destination. Clear the old current flag, save the decision, and insert the successor with its inputs in one transaction. Terminal transitions complete the parent instead. An insertion failure leaves the completed old row current. - **Recovery:** `previous_stage_id` identifies the handler that just returned; it must belong to the request. A restarted worker passes `None` and finds the saved current row. If that row is completed, transition it without repeating its action. If the switch already committed, return the saved successor. Repeated calls never apply the old transition twice. - **Progress:** reconstruct covered communities from saved decisions and the approved inventory. Each stage records its predecessor ID, so reconstruction does not depend on timestamp ordering. Missing current state in a started request, disconnected history, unknown stages, and malformed results fail without inventing progress. - **Ownership:** parent leases last 60 seconds and handlers renew them every ten seconds. Generation checks reject stale writes. Handler and renewal futures remain independently polled; renewal cannot prevent a handler holding the parent lock from committing. - **Step-by-step testing:** `run --next-step` executes one handler, commits its transition, and exits with the successor pending. Repeat the same command to advance again; the final step completes the request. The former `--max-stages` and `--pause-after-handler` flags are removed. - **Failure:** the handler saves the current row's error and a 30-second retry deadline. The transition returns `WaitUntil`; the worker exits and releases its lease. A later invocation retries the same row. No background scheduler or automatic retry daemon is added. The user workflow definition in `buzz-deletion/src/user/workflow.rs` declares allowed destinations and a decision function per stage. `gate_user` enters the first uncovered community. `purge_db` reads saved `has_agents`: true selects `purge_agents`; false completes the community immediately. Community completion selects the next uncovered community, or finishes the request when all are covered. No full stage plan is created upfront. The transition transaction contains no stage-name comparisons or fixed community count. Stage metadata stores `inputs`, `result`, `transition`, and `previous_stage_id`. The parent retains inventory, ownership, retry, and overall status. Approval evidence stays in `entity_deletion_approvals`. A completed-current row bridges the two transactions; real handlers will still need idempotent or reconciled actions if a process dies before saving its result. ### Code organization `buzz-deletion/src/user/worker.rs` runs the loop and heartbeat. Sibling `handlers.rs` executes dummy actions. `transition.rs` defines `UserDeletionTransition.get_next_stage()`, and `workflow.rs` owns the user stage rules and community-progress reconstruction. The CLI remains in `user.rs`. `buzz-db/src/store/entity_deletion/` contains shared workflow persistence: a small `mod.rs`, request reads/inspection in `requests.rs`, approval evidence in `approvals.rs`, ownership in `leases.rs`, and stage outcomes/atomic transitions in `stages.rs`. User-specific submission, demo inventory, and inventory validation live separately in `buzz-db/src/store/user_deletion/{requests,inventory}.rs`; its `mod.rs` only defines and exports the store. The worker calls the user transition object, which supplies a synchronous decision function to `EntityDeletionStore.transition_stage`. The store locks the parent, reads saved state, invokes that function, checks the returned operation, and commits its writes. The decision function performs no SQL or external calls. Reading, deciding, and writing remain in one transaction; there is no stale-state gap. Shared storage contains no user stage names or community-routing rules. User-specific approval validation also runs inside the shared approval transaction. This reorganization changes no tables, migrations, stage metadata, or CLI behavior. Requests using the existing saved-result format continue to work. `--next-step` still runs one handler and commits its transition before returning. ### Testing The walkthrough in [docs/operator-user-deletion-executor.md](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/rarora/user-deletion-approval/docs/operator-user-deletion-executor.md) includes commands, SQL inspection, expected rows, and recovery boundaries. Submitted and approved a fresh local request and verified zero stage rows. Ran `run --next-step` five times. Each call completed exactly one handler, released ownership, and left its successor pending: B DB, B agents, C DB, C agents, then request completed. A sixth call left saved state unchanged. Verified both removed flags are rejected. Ran `--demo-no-agents-in 00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000c` and verified four completed rows, with no C agents stage. Injected a DB-stage failure, verified immediate retry refusal, waited for the real deadline, and resumed the same stage row. Observed heartbeat renewal and rejection of a competing worker, killed the owned worker process, waited for its actual lease expiry, and resumed the same unfinished stage with a new generation. Re-running a completed request left its saved state unchanged. Repeated the CLI walkthrough after the file reorganization, including runtime branching and a retry after the real deadline; a completed request created before the reorganization remained unchanged. Mutation-tested the ownership and recovery guards against local PostgreSQL 17. Reclaiming with the same executor ID rejects old-generation operations. Independently disabling the ownership generation check, release generation check, saved-transition/result comparison, or heartbeat-failure handling made the corresponding test fail. Restored all four protections afterward. The heartbeat test takes over the request while its handler is already running. ### Schema and rollout Unmerged migrations 0069–0070 add inventory and execution fields, widen request lifecycle states, and create operator-global approval and stage-history tables. They set five-second lock and thirty-second statement timeouts; constraint validation has its own transaction. No triggers, functions, foreign keys, or data backfills are added. Desired-state and migration catalog parity cover all three tables. The transition redesign adds no further schema changes. The serving relay does not schedule these requests. Only the explicit operator CLI runs them, using PostgreSQL. Only `demo:` targets are accepted. Real account discovery, user-write fencing, owned-community handling, and actual deletion remain future work. Verify staging with a new demo label and the documented commands. Older draft requests do not have the new stage metadata contract. Preserve them and create a new demo request for this version; they are not a supported resume format. Use a fresh database if an earlier draft applied a different migration checksum. Never alter sqlx migration checksums. With Helm `migrate.autoMigrate=true` (the chart default), a relay binary that lacks 0069/0070 fails at boot with sqlx `VersionMissing` after those migrations are applied. Recovery for this rollout is a roll-forward: deploy a corrected binary that retains the migrations. Do not delete migration records or change checksums to force an older binary to boot. Rolling back with auto-migration disabled requires a separately verified schema-compatibility plan. Demo requests, stage history, and approvals are intentionally retained; this scaffold has no cleanup command or retention job. Recheck migration numbering before merge. Generated with Codex --------- Signed-off-by: Ravneet Arora <rarora@squareup.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.