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## Summary Cold-start iOS invite links could open the welcome screen without continuing sign-in, and accounts without a stored backup had no explicit identity setup choice. Forward scene launch URLs to `app_links`, offer creation for an unbound account with no backups, and offer matching-key import for an existing binding without a backup. Existing key storage, binding, backup, and admission checks remain in use. Discover saved hosted destinations using `known-communities/list` and remember successfully admitted destinations with `known-communities/add`. Saved destinations are not membership proof; normal admission and the existing failed-claim membership reconciliation remain separate. A failed save preserves the intent and local community for idempotent retry. ### Related issue Related to #8599 (QR-first mobile onboarding) and #8601 (invite policy consent; overlapping setup UI). No exact duplicate found in the open onboarding PR / identity-backup issue search. ### Validation before the latest main integration - 48 tests passed across five focused files: `hosted_journeys_test`, `hosted_communities_test`, `hosted_communities_flow_test`, `hosted_environment_flow_test`, and `hosted_multi_backup_recovery_test`. Test defines enable hosted domains and the push gateway. - Four additional pairing handoff tests passed with hosted domains enabled after updating their shared HTTP fixture for community saving. - Targeted Dart analysis: no issues. Required pre-commit and pre-push hooks passed, including the broader mobile analysis/test lane and file-size checks. - Native iOS build passed during iteration. On an isolated iOS simulator, a terminated app opened from an invite automatically entered browser login; human recording confirmed login continued into identity setup and new identity creation. - Human staging testing on October 27 passed invite entry with an existing email/password and new identity, community entry, messaging, cold restart, and recovery on two separate clean iOS simulators. These results apply to build `ff2138fc325790e0af4d9a64b2ed033fae3a8295`; the backend backup-upload blocker described previously is no longer blocking that tested flow. - Fresh-account signup through an invite is deferred. Physical-camera QR scanning, native regression/mutation coverage, independent review, and native retesting after the latest main integration remain outstanding. - Known limitation: failed-claim membership reconciliation still calls `communities/joined`; its endpoint/response contract needs alignment with the supported backend before that fallback is considered ready. The successful primary recovery path does not prove this fallback. - No account reset tooling, environment-specific credentials, generated dependency files, or recording artifacts are included. ### Current review fixes and validation Head `9902a98d42904a4a7d44a79541d81ceb94d8eac3` addresses the two review blockers and both small import races: - Hosted imports explain a linked-account key mismatch; the shared self-hosted/occupied-device message remains unchanged. The linked-account journey enters the wrong key through the actual sheet, checks the visible error and empty storage, then imports the correct key. - Closing the import sheet while its operation is pending now waits for that operation and resumes successful setup. The new-account journey covers creation and import, including dismissal while awaiting the status response, binding, backup receipt, and retry. - An unbound account with newly appeared backups refuses direct import, preserving recovery's receipt-before-adoption rule. The existing multiple-backup invariant covers matching and different imported keys. - The configured route journey uses host labels and its existing fake account now supports destination saving; the real-account journeys separately exercise persistence. 53 tests passed across six focused files with CI's `BUZZ_AUTH_DOMAINS=buzz.xyz,builderlab.xyz,builderlabstaging.xyz` and push-gateway define. In a separate clone with independent Git metadata/build output, restoring the old production import paths failed the three intended regressions; restoring the fixes passed all 43 tests in that control. Required pre-commit and pre-push hooks passed, including mobile analysis/tests and file-size checks. Hosted CI and native retesting of this head are still pending. The earlier independent review was at `10815e5d9`; these fixes still need reviewer confirmation. Optional accessibility and import-navigation refinements are deferred. Fresh signup, authenticated production add/list and the membership fallback remain open as described above. ### Staging testing and production configuration Staging selection is build configuration, not a changed production default. `HostedEnvironment` is unchanged by this PR: `BUZZ_BUILDERLAB_URL` defaults to `https://app.builderlab.xyz`; `BUZZ_AUTH_DOMAINS` is empty by default (hosted account features disabled). Builds that enable production hosted domains receive these onboarding behavior fixes after merge. This PR does not deploy anything or redirect production builds to staging. Check out this PR (`gh pr checkout 8617` in a dedicated `block/buzz` checkout/worktree), install dependencies per `mobile/README.md`, and boot a clean iOS simulator. With the repository-pinned Flutter toolchain: ```sh . ./bin/activate-hermit ./scripts/mobile-worktree-overrides.sh cd mobile flutter run -d <clean-simulator-udid> \ --dart-define=BUZZ_BUILDERLAB_URL=https://app.builderlabstaging.xyz \ --dart-define=BUZZ_AUTH_DOMAINS=communities.public.builderlabstaging.xyz \ --dart-define=BUZZ_DEBUG_PRIVATE_LOGIN=true ``` Private login requests an ephemeral browser session only in debug builds. Hosted relay assertions remain off by default; this test does not validate assertion-enabled admission. Generated local Xcode settings, dependency metadata, credentials, and simulator state are not included in the PR. - Invite test: open a valid public-staging invite in the simulator browser, choose **Accept invite in Buzz**, sign in or sign up, complete identity setup, enter the community, and send a message. - Recovery test: preserve that simulator, start another clean simulator with the same build, choose **or sign in with email**, and sign into the same account. Verify the recovered public key matches, the saved community and earlier message return, and a new message sends. - Fresh signup: repeat invite entry using a new account. This still needs human verification. Keep this PR draft while the listed validation gaps remain. --------- Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brain <1a02c72794dcd0f07058a353bc3a81f4028b8c77c92c87fce6d5c8b85970a20b@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. |
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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.