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## Summary
`StorageAccountingLeader` holds a session-level advisory lock on a
detached connection. Dropping it only closes the socket, and PostgreSQL
frees the lock when the backend exits, which can be after the next lock
attempt. `release(self)` now unlocks on the leader's own session before
closing it. The relay storage-sweep test releases its worker between
iterations instead of dropping it, which fixes the
`worker_publication_activates_reader_without_restart_or_mode_change`
flake. The follow-up commit makes `release` report success only when the
unlock actually ran on the session that held the lease.
### fix(db): unlock the storage-accounting lease before its session
closes
#### Problem
The PostgreSQL lane's
`storage_sweep::postgres_tests::worker_publication_activates_reader_without_restart_or_mode_change`
failed with "called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value" at
crates/buzz-relay/src/storage_sweep/postgres_tests.rs:66:74 after 5.53
s, on the unrelated branch elrond/cli-credential-chain:
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41730818977/job/126253029211
#### Cause
Line 66 is `db.try_lock_storage_accounting().await.unwrap().unwrap()`
inside the loop over three metrics modes. `Ok(None)` means
`pg_try_advisory_lock` returned false. A passing run takes about 15 s,
roughly 5 s per iteration, so the failure is the start of iteration 2.
Each test process gets its own database and advisory locks are
per-database, so the holder is iteration 1's own worker.
`StorageAccountingLeader` holds a session-level advisory lock on a
detached connection. The test ended each iteration with `drop(worker)`,
which only closes the socket. PostgreSQL frees session locks during
backend exit, after it notices EOF, so the lock can outlive the drop on
a loaded server. Iteration 2's lock attempt raced that exit. The
db-crate test `lost_lock_session_cannot_overwrite_successor_snapshot`
already polls for this release. The relay test didn't.
#### Fix
Add `StorageAccountingLeader::release(self)`. It runs
`pg_advisory_unlock` on the leader's own session and then closes it, so
the lease is free when it returns. This follows the unlock-then-close
pattern in `migration.rs`. The relay test now releases the worker at the
end of each iteration instead of dropping it. No assertions, timeouts or
retries change.
buzz-admin's `storage-snapshot` is left as is. It runs once per pod, and
its CronJob uses `concurrencyPolicy: Forbid`, `backoffLimit: 0` and
`restartPolicy: Never`, so the next lock attempt comes from a later
scheduled run, not from the same process.
`released_lease_admits_successor_before_old_session_exits` covers the
new method. A closing backend drops its temp tables before it frees
session locks. So the test locks a temp table owned by the leader's
session from another transaction, which keeps the old backend alive
after release. It then asserts that a fresh `try_lock` succeeds at once
and that the old backend has not exited.
Open PRs #9040 (edits this relay test and keeps `drop(worker)`) and
#9043 (changes the `sqlx` import in storage_accounting.rs) will see
small textual conflicts.
#### Validation
Local Linux workstation, throwaway `postgres:16-alpine` (CI uses
`postgres:16`), desired-state schema applied as in the PostgreSQL lane:
- Adversarial ordering, using temporary, uncommitted changes: the
leader's connection was made public and the relay test held the worker
backend's exit for 1 s with the same temp-table lock. Without the fix:
15/15 failed at postgres_tests.rs:66:74 after 5.1-5.3 s, the CI
signature. With the fix: 10/10 passed.
- Natural contention: Postgres, the test processes and busy loops were
pinned to 4 CPUs. With 8 parallel runs and 4 busy loops, the unmodified
test passed 24/24 without the fix. With 16 parallel runs and 16 busy
loops, it passed 48/48 without the fix and 48/48 with it. Load alone did
not open the window locally.
- New db test: 50/50 passed. With the unlock removed from `release`,
leaving only `close`, it fails with "a released lease must admit a
successor at once". All four storage_accounting Postgres tests pass.
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay
-p buzz-admin --all-targets -- -D warnings`, `just file-size-check` and
`git diff --check` are clean.
A green run doesn't prove the flake is gone. Hosted CI covers broad
validation.
**Rebased onto origin/main `64d12e297` (this branch):** the relay test,
run in a fresh database cloned from the desired-state template each
time, passed 8/8 at the branch head, which includes this commit. The
full rebased results are under the next commit.
#### Rebase note
#9040, which this commit's message lists as an open PR, has since merged
to main. It removed the per-community storage metric, including the
`buzz_community_storage_bytes` assertion just above `drop(worker)` in
`crates/buzz-relay/src/storage_sweep/postgres_tests.rs`. The cherry-pick
onto current main conflicted on that hunk. The resolution keeps main's
version of the test and changes only `drop(worker)` to
`worker.release().await.expect("release worker lease")` with its
comment. Nothing else in the commit changed, and no semantic adjustment
was needed. The commit message is unchanged, so it still describes #9040
as open.
### fix(db): report a storage-accounting release only once its unlock
succeeded
#### Problem
Second review of the branch (nit) on 51c27212a ("fix(db): unlock the
storage-accounting lease before its session closes"),
`StorageAccountingLeader::release` in storage_accounting.rs. That commit
cites the unlock-then-close pattern in runtime/migration.rs but handles
errors differently:
- A failed unlock returned early with `?`, skipping the graceful close.
The dropped connection then closed only the socket.
- A failed close after a successful unlock was returned as an error,
although the lease was already free.
- `pg_advisory_unlock` returning false, which means this session didn't
hold the lock, was ignored and reported as success.
So the doc comment's "Once this returns, the lease is already free" did
not hold for every `Ok`.
#### Cause
`release` propagated the unlock's error with `?` before the close,
propagated the close's error after a successful unlock, and ignored the
boolean that `pg_advisory_unlock` returns. So a failed unlock skipped
the graceful close, a failed close was reported although the lease was
already free, and an unlock that returned false because this session no
longer held the lock was reported as success.
#### Fix
Follow migration.rs's `with_schema_destruction_lock`. Run the unlock as
`query_scalar::<bool>` and keep its result, always attempt the close and
ignore its error, then return the unlock's error, or `InvalidData` if
the unlock returned false. The doc comment now says that `Ok` means the
unlock ran on the lease's own session, so the lease is free even if the
close failed, and that an error means the unlock failed or the session
no longer held the lease.
`released_lease_admits_successor_before_old_session_exits` gains a final
step: it unlocks the successor's lease on the successor's own session,
then expects `release` to fail. Its successor check is now an `expect`
with the same message.
#### Validation
Local Linux workstation, the `postgres:16` container used earlier on
this branch, `BUZZ_TEST_DATABASE_URL` pointing at it:
- `cargo test -p buzz-db --lib storage_accounting -- --ignored`: 4/4
storage_accounting Postgres tests pass.
- With the unlock's boolean ignored, as before this change, the new step
fails with "releasing a lease the session lost must fail".
- `cargo fmt -p buzz-db -- --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-db
--all-targets -- -D warnings` and `git diff --check` are clean.
**Rebased onto origin/main `64d12e297` (this branch, both commits):**
Linux workstation, private `postgres:16` container with the
desired-state schema applied as in the PostgreSQL lane (pgschema plus
the reconcile script).
- `cargo test -p buzz-db`: 191 lib, 21 `observability_source` and 5 doc
tests passed. The 674 Postgres-backed tests are `#[ignore]`d there.
- `cargo test -p buzz-db --lib storage_accounting -- --ignored
--test-threads=1`: 4/4 passed.
`released_lease_admits_successor_before_old_session_exits` alone: 20/20
passed.
-
`storage_sweep::postgres_tests::worker_publication_activates_reader_without_restart_or_mode_change`,
each run in a fresh database cloned from the desired-state template: 8/8
passed.
- `cargo clippy -p buzz-db --all-targets -- -D warnings`, `cargo clippy
-p buzz-relay --all-targets -- -D warnings`, `cargo fmt -p buzz-db -p
buzz-relay -- --check` and `git diff --check` are clean.
## Coordination
- #9043 (draft, "feat(relay): serve storage usage as an operator pull
feed") edits `crates/buzz-db/src/store/storage_accounting.rs`. `git
merge-tree` against its current head shows two small textual conflicts.
First, both sides rewrite the `sqlx` import to the same `use
sqlx::{postgres::PgConnection, Connection};`, and #9043 also drops `use
uuid::Uuid;`. Second, #9043 replaces
`usage_delivery_reads_snapshot_time_and_community_states` at the point
where this branch adds
`released_lease_admits_successor_before_old_session_exits`. Keeping both
sides resolves each one.
- #7899 also touches `storage_accounting.rs`. It already conflicts with
main, and this branch adds no new conflicted file to it.
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Signed-off-by: mtoohey <mtoohey@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <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. |
|
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.