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## Summary
This PR adds kind 30180, `KIND_EMOJI_ENTRY`. One event holds one custom
emoji.
The relay accepts, validates, stores, and replaces these events.
The SDK gets `build_emoji_entry`.
`docs/nips/NIP-CE.md` documents the kind.
This is the relay part of the custom-emoji scale-up (Option C).
It does not change kind 30030 sets, message `emoji` tags, or reaction
`emoji` tags.
It adds no migration and no schema change.
**Read this before you deploy.** Prefix search for kind 30180 works only
on a database whose `events.search_tsv` indexes that kind. See "Search
index" below.
## Design
- `crates/buzz-core/src/kind.rs`: `KIND_EMOJI_ENTRY = 30180`. It is in
`ALL_KINDS`. A compile-time check proves it is parameterized
replaceable. 30180 was free on `origin/main`.
- `crates/buzz-relay/src/handlers/ingest.rs`:
- The kind needs `UsersWrite`.
- The kind is global-only. It is never channel-scoped.
- `validate_emoji_entry` runs before storage. It requires exactly one
`d` tag and exactly one `emoji` tag.
- It rejects any `h` tag.
- It requires `d` to equal the shortcode in the `emoji` tag, and both to
equal the normalized shortcode.
- It requires an `http://` or `https://` URL of at most 2048 bytes. It
uses the SDK check `check_custom_emoji_url`, which is now public.
- It caps `content` at 256 bytes (`MAX_EMOJI_ENTRY_CONTENT_LEN`). A
shortcode is at most 64 bytes, so the cap leaves room.
- Every rejection starts with `invalid:`.
- `crates/buzz-sdk/src/builders.rs`: `build_emoji_entry(shortcode, url)`
and `emoji_entry_search_text`. The content is the shortcode with `_` and
`-` replaced by spaces.
- Replace semantics use the existing parameterized-replaceable path. A
second publish with the same `(pubkey, d)` leaves one live event. Two
authors with the same `d` keep two events. The NIP tells clients to
prefer the newest event and report the conflict.
### Decisions
- **WebSocket `search_mode`: not changed.** Prefix search works through
`POST /query`, which already reads `search_mode`. This is the smallest
correct change. The `REQ` search path still uses full-word matching. The
NIP says so. A client that needs typeahead uses `POST /query`.
- **Search text.** Postgres `simple` already splits `party_parrot` at
the underscore. It keeps `sad-parrot` as one token and also indexes
`sad` and `parrot`. So the space replacement is not needed for matching
today. It is kept because it is harmless and does not depend on parser
details.
- **Content cap of 256 bytes.** The cap is documented in the NIP and the
code doc comment.
### Search index (important)
The design doc says kind 30030 is not excluded from the full-text index.
That is true for `schema/` (the desired state): it indexes every kind
except a deny list. It is not true for a database that was created by
`migrations/`:
- Migration 0008 gives a fresh install a positive allowlist: kinds 0, 9,
40002, 45001, 45003.
- `scripts/maintenance/nip_rs_search_allowlist.sql` moves a populated
database to the same allowlist.
On an allowlist database, kind 30180 is **stored and resolvable by `#d`,
but not searchable**.
I did not change this. A change to `search_tsv` rewrites the partitioned
`events` table. That needs the reviewed out-of-band procedure in
`docs/database.md` (rules 6 and 5), and this task forbids migrations and
schema files.
Before clients depend on search, a human must check the deployed
expression:
```sql
SELECT pg_get_expr(adbin, adrelid) FROM pg_attrdef d JOIN pg_attribute a
ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum
WHERE a.attname = 'search_tsv' AND d.adrelid = 'events'::regclass;
```
If the result lists `kind IN (0, 9, ...)`, add 30180 to the allowlist
through the out-of-band procedure first.
## Spike
I ran this on a throwaway local Postgres 17 (Docker), desired-state
schema from `pgschema`.
The loader inserted 100,000 kind 30180 events from 200 authors through
`Db::replace_parameterized_event`. It used 16 parallel tasks, and it did
not use the network.
The loader was a scratch example. It is not in this PR.
Rows landed in `events_p_future` because the local partitions end at
2026-06. Real deployments have monthly partitions, so scans split across
partitions.
**Insert rate.** 100,000 inserts took 33.9 s (about 2,900 per second) at
the DB layer. The relay adds rate limits on top (see the design doc,
section 2.5).
**`#d` batch of 50 names** (actual relay SQL shape, warm cache, `LIMIT
100`):
| Case | Plan | Execution time |
|------|------|----------------|
| No `authors` | Index scan on `idx_events_parameterized`. It uses
`community_id` and `kind` only. `d_tag` is not a leading key, so it
scans the kind range. | 12 ms warm, 28 ms cold |
| 50 names, all their authors (50 distinct) | Index scan with `pubkey`
and `d_tag` in the index condition | 1.5 ms |
| 50 names, one author | Same index, tight condition | 0.13 ms |
Result: with `authors`, the lookup is fast. Without `authors`, the cost
grows with the number of entries of the kind. At 100,000 rows it is
still tens of milliseconds. No index change is needed now. Re-measure at
1,000,000 rows.
**Prefix search**, `kinds=[30180]`, relevance order (the default),
`LIMIT 50`:
| Query | Matching rows | Execution time (warm) |
|-------|---------------|-----------------------|
| `parr` | 8,169 | 115 ms (124 ms cold) |
| `p` | 15,990 | 219 ms |
| `party par` | 8,169 | 266 ms (cold) |
| `zap blob 999` (rare) | 1 | 0.4 ms |
| `parr` with `search_sort: "newest"` | 8,169 | 0.8 ms |
Result: the GIN index finds matches fast. Relevance order then scores
every matching row (`ts_rank_cd`) and sorts them. The cost grows with
the number of matches, not with `limit`. My synthetic words are few
(24), so each prefix matches many rows. Real names are more varied, but
a one- or two-letter query will still match many rows. The `search_sort:
"newest"` option avoids the scoring and was 150 times faster here.
Clients should use `search_sort: "newest"` for typeahead, or require at
least 3 characters. This is a recommendation for the client work. It
needs no relay change.
**Side effects of bulk insert** (from reading `ingest.rs` and
`handlers/event.rs`):
- Audit log: each accepted event queues one `EventCreated` audit entry.
The audit worker writes them one at a time under an advisory lock. The
queue holds 1000 entries and uses `send().await`, so a bulk run slows
the writer down instead of dropping entries. 96,000 events add 96,000
audit rows.
- Live fan-out: each event is published to the global topic and matched
against open subscriptions in `sub_registry`. A client with an open
filter for kind 30180 receives every event.
- Workflow triggers: each event spawns a task that calls
`workflow_engine.on_event`. That is one trigger lookup per event.
- Push: the DB push enqueue only matches kinds 9, 40002, 45001, and
45003 (`PUSH_MATCH_KINDS`). Kind 30180 does not wake push subscribers.
- No `channel_id`, so the `events_created_at_floor_guard` trigger does
not apply.
## Testing
What ran (all on the final tree):
- `cargo test -p buzz-core -p buzz-sdk -p buzz-relay -p buzz-search`:
pass.
- `cargo clippy -p buzz-core -p buzz-sdk -p buzz-relay -p buzz-search
--all-targets -- -D warnings`: pass.
- `cargo fmt --all --check`: pass.
- `just file-size-check`: pass.
- Postgres lane, desired-state schema (`BUZZ_TEST_SCHEMA_MODE=desired`)
with a local Redis: `cargo test -p buzz-relay --lib handlers::ingest --
--include-ignored`: 205 passed, including the four new tests.
New tests:
- `emoji_entry_validation_table` (no infra): one row for each rule.
- `emoji_entry_is_a_global_users_write_kind` (no infra).
- `emoji_entry_ingest_validates_and_replaces` (Postgres): goes through
`ingest_event`. It rejects a bad shortcode, `d` not equal to shortcode,
an `h` tag, and a non-http URL. It checks that nothing is stored. It
then publishes twice with the same `d` and checks that one live event
remains and that it is the newer one.
- `emoji_entry_prefix_search_finds_by_word_prefix` (Postgres): `parr`
finds `party parrot` and `sad parrot`. `party par` finds one. `joy`
finds `bufo joy`. It fails with a clear message on an allowlist
database.
- SDK: `emoji_entry_happy_path` and `emoji_entry_rejects_bad_input`.
Not run:
- `just test` was not run in full. I ran the relevant Postgres tests
directly.
- `cargo test -p buzz-search --test postgres_fts_integration` fails 23
of 23 on my shared local database. Those fixtures use fixed hostnames
and need the fresh-database lane (`scripts/postgres-test-run.sh`). I did
not change that crate. This is an environment limit, not a result of
this change.
- The new search test fails on a database built by `buzz-admin migrate`
(allowlist). That is the finding above. It passes on the desired-state
schema that the CI lane uses (`postgres-test-run.sh`).
- I ran no live relay and no end-to-end client.
Interop evidence: none for this item. The desktop and mobile constants
are out of scope here. `/home/bloxer/ref/interop.mjs` was not needed
because no TypeScript changed.
Mutation checks (break the guard, confirm a test fails, restore):
| Mutation | Result |
|----------|--------|
| Remove the `validate_emoji_entry` call |
`emoji_entry_ingest_validates_and_replaces` fails |
| Remove the `h` tag check | table test and ingest test fail |
| Remove the `d == shortcode` check | table test and ingest test fail |
| Remove the URL check | table test and ingest test fail |
| Remove the content cap | table test fails |
| Allow more than one `d` tag | table test fails |
| Allow more than one `emoji` tag | table test fails |
| Remove the kind from `required_scope_for_kind` | scope test, ingest
test, and search test fail |
| Remove the kind from `is_global_only_kind` | global test and ingest
test fail |
| SDK: skip shortcode normalization | both SDK tests fail |
| SDK: skip the URL check | `emoji_entry_rejects_bad_input` fails |
| SDK: skip the space replacement | `emoji_entry_happy_path` fails |
One guard has no relay-level test: the space replacement does not change
search results, because Postgres already splits `_`. The SDK test covers
it.
## Manual test steps
You need Docker and a local checkout. Use a local relay only.
1. Start the services and apply the desired-state schema, so that search
indexes kind 30180:
```bash
cd ~/buzz && . ./bin/activate-hermit
docker run -d --name buzz-pg -e POSTGRES_USER=buzz -e
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=buzz_dev -e POSTGRES_DB=buzz -p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432
postgres:17-alpine
redis-server --daemonize yes --save ""
PGHOST=localhost PGPORT=5432 PGUSER=buzz PGPASSWORD=buzz_dev
PGDATABASE=buzz ./bin/pgschema apply --file schema/schema.sql
--auto-approve
docker exec -i buzz-pg psql -U buzz -d buzz -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 <
scripts/reconcile-schema-after-pgschema.sql
```
Success: `Changes applied successfully!`.
2. Run the new tests:
```bash
export
BUZZ_TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://buzz:buzz_dev@localhost:5432/buzz
BUZZ_TEST_SCHEMA_MODE=desired
cargo test -p buzz-relay --lib emoji_entry -- --include-ignored
cargo test -p buzz-sdk --lib emoji_entry
```
Success: 4 relay tests and 2 SDK tests pass.
3. Optional, with a local relay (`just relay`) and a local key. Send
these through `POST /events` with the SDK or a small script that calls
`build_emoji_entry("party_parrot", "https://example.com/p.gif")`.
Success: the relay returns `accepted: true`.
- Publish a second entry with the same shortcode. Query `POST /query`
with `{"kinds":[30180],"#d":["party_parrot"]}`. Success: one event, the
newer one.
- Query
`{"kinds":[30180],"search":"parr","search_mode":"prefix","limit":50}`.
Success: the entry is in the result.
- Publish an entry that has an `h` tag or an `ftp://` URL. Success: the
relay returns `invalid:`.
4. Check your target database before you rely on search (the SQL in
"Search index"). Success: the expression does not list an allowlist such
as `kind IN (0, 9, 40002, 45001, 45003)`. If it does, search does not
find kind 30180 yet.
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Signed-off-by: bmcanally <bmcanally@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.