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## Summary Apply relay mode consistently across protected HTTP, root/audio WebSocket, Git, media and V1 admission. Off requires no NIP-FI, including for stored required communities. Shadow enforces only stored community requirements and observes other communities. Enforce requires NIP-FI for every community. Durable requirements survive all mode changes. Off retains ordinary tenant routing and authentication. It skips FI policy/dependency reads for admission, uses cached WebSocket tenant routing, and loads no FI binding snapshot at startup. Discovery reports `requires_nip_fi=false` and no FI capability in Off. Evaluating modes retain same-row WebSocket binding and immutable HTTP policy tenants, including host remaps, pending deletion and unarchive races. Global Enforce discovery retains its existing compatibility behavior. Host-specific root NIP-11 and `/info` expose the additive `requires_nip_fi` field with no-store. In evaluating modes, an unavailable policy returns 503 and an unknown or non-serving host returns 404. Off uses ordinary routing; a discovery lookup failure returns 404. Stored requirements in Shadow require usable FI dependencies. Admission does not establish activation. BUZZ-512 owns existing-session application, drain and mode-aware readback; its separate revision must report stored requirements as suspended in Off. Production baseline verification and human acceptance remain open. Community status now shares the bounded host cache: 10,000 entries, one-second leases measured before checkout, coalesced fills, and no cached misses or errors. Git reuses one request policy. Root/audio retain the final primary binding check: two reads on a cold successful upgrade, one on a cache hit. Off creates no verifier or JWKS source and reads no FI policy. Proof metrics count stored-required Shadow enforcement. Acceptance locks and validates the community row, takes the matching host advisory lock, and drains optional leases for 1.1 seconds before commit. Reads begun after commit see required across participating relay instances, even without Redis invalidation. The row lock closes single and double remap races. Admissions already in flight remain subject to BUZZ-512 activation fencing. ### Related issue [BUZZ-511](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-511/relay-enforce-per-community-nip-fi-policy-and-publish-compatible). [BUZZ-510 / #8985](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8985) is merged; this PR now targets main. The restack retains main’s #8974 denial telemetry and artifact capabilities. Related work includes #8526 tenant lookup errors and #8444 media authorization. ### Rollout and containment Keep `BUZZ_NIP_FI_UPGRADES_ENABLED=false`. [The rollout plan](docs/community-auth-upgrades.md#staging-and-containment) starts in staging with zero required rows and a 30-minute before/after traffic comparison. Initial abort limits include any policy timeout/503, policy-read p99 above 50 ms, writer acquisition p99 above 20 ms or twice baseline, and a five-minute 503 increase above 0.1 percentage point. These are initial limits to validate against measured staging results, not production capacity claims. Verify signed/unsigned free controls, real required root/audio upgrades, dependency failures, restart behavior and discovery before expansion. Also watch binding timeouts/errors and their current generic 404 responses on known serving hosts alongside writer-pool pressure; evaluating root/audio binding has a 500 ms budget; Off uses ordinary cached routing. In Shadow, a pre-511 rollback loses enforcement of accepted community requirements. Stop new upgrade calls, retain accepted policy and receipts, and repair with an enforcing binary or operator-approved containment. Never clear durable policy to restore access. Off deliberately suspends FI enforcement and must be an explicit operator mode choice. No production activation is claimed. All acceptance paths must implement the lease protocol before upgrades are enabled. Keep upgrades disabled through a mixed-version rollout. For rollback, disable new acceptance before removing the protocol while caching pods remain. A cold policy fill uses a six-statement transaction and a 400 ms server timeout within the 500 ms lookup budget. A contended policy fill returns 503. During the drain, archive, deletion, ownership, issuer-binding and competing acceptance writers for that community may wait; ordinary serving reads and writes retain their existing behavior. Host-binding changes retain the existing one-second routing bound. Local and Redis invalidation accelerate refresh; safety does not depend on delivery. Deploy the verified Shadow revocation behavior from #8991 before accepting required communities in Shadow. ### Testing Published review-fix head: `39dfe79b1fc04f10ee3eb94d6ea42cf686bafe1e`, tree `1e2e8d3abd39ee1d6821defe8c8d34de73726e08`. McKeon cleared this cache delta. Full affected auth (291), DB (192), pubsub (31) and relay (1,682) package tests passed, including integration binaries. Two previously documented hardcoded-Redis audit tests remained excluded. All-target clippy, all 1,297 native PostgreSQL tests and the full pubsub Redis suite passed. The full ACP package and `just ci` passed after rebuilding cached test executables that embedded a removed checkout path. No ACP source changed. Tauri's generated lockfile delta was archived and restored; it is excluded from this candidate. Both positive lease regressions passed. Four deliberately broken variants failed at the intended assertions: removing the drain left an optional lease alive after 202.935667 ms; skipping the fill lock failed contention refusal; moving the timestamp after the read failed the anchor check; taking the host lock before the row failed the remap-blocking check. Exact source was restored after each mutation. These are local validation results, not a deployed-fleet acceptance claim. All applicable normal push hooks passed. GitHub reports the exact tested head and tree; the published code has no delta from the reviewed candidate. Earlier mode-correction evidence follows for context. Current mode-correction head: `aa9abf07284b56a88eb78a2014e590f39d705288`, on main `af54258f19ac32667c027f889652bdeb479c8e13`. Its code equals reviewed `f1e7da5fc5`, plus the independently reviewed operator documentation follow-up; all 19 earlier remote patches are preserved. McKeon verified the correction and its mapping to the tested candidate. The mode-correction candidate passed full auth (291) and relay (1,679) package tests, clippy, and four explicit native PostgreSQL policy workflows. There were 623 ignored relay tests and two excluded Redis tests. Real PostgreSQL checks cover an ordinary unsigned caller on a stored-required host in Off with no FI token or dependencies, discovery false, durable policy retained, root/audio upgrades, host remaps and the unarchive race in evaluating modes. The `STORED_OFF` mutation fails the enum truth table only; `OFF_PRIMARY` fails cached upgrade routing. Restored source hashes match. Earlier failed compile/fixture attempts remain recorded. The first normal push hook attempt passed Tauri checks but failed the gateway startup verifier test (82/83 gateway tests passed). The remote remained unchanged. The retry rebuilt gateway artifacts with separate root and Tauri caches, then passed every normal push hook and published this head. No gateway source changes or hook bypasses were needed. Current-head hosted CI is tracked separately. Human acceptance and the staging binding-timeout/404 workflow remain open. The following retained validation and controls are historical and describe behavior before the mode correction; their Off-enforcement statements are superseded by the Summary above. Published head: `9a717fa89725f9430ff4a8bb78cd600affb8836d`, on main `1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f`. CI, three schema checks, 2,136 ordinary tests, all 291 auth tests, 12 Redis tests, all 1,300 native PostgreSQL tests and discovery passed. The required wrapper passed units, then exited 1 at unavailable Docker bootstrap. BUZZ-510 is complete at `95c8d31c835d6f7ff6e432fb1ed248771d4f06dd`: CI, three schema checks, 2,127 ordinary tests, 12 Redis tests, all 1,295 native Postgres tests and discovery passed; its wrapper passed units and failed at unavailable Docker bootstrap. The first native run at historical BUZZ-510 `5380cb72` passed 1,291 tests and failed two event-follow-up queue assertions and the scale-sync case. All three passed serially, then the full 1,294-test run passed with normal concurrency. The original cause remains unresolved; failed runs and resource samples are retained. Standalone BUZZ-511 checks exposed access-slot callers, a Clippy warning and early HTTP 503 attribution that had remained in the child. All are now corrected in the parent. The unchanged real-router refusal regression passed before the latest commit. BUZZ-512's final tree is unchanged by moving these parent prerequisites. The remaining 46-file child delta was audited; no additional parent prerequisite was found. Earlier compile and native failures remain archived. The following earlier-head results and controls are historical; the current-head validation is reported above. At `48388834f99b8d045e243b619904cb3e27b47146`, based on BUZZ-510 `130f14a675edd7cbe6a69d1c9d7818bd1a51f46c` and reconciled main `152441ae0a56b204b42b6faa56a36ad2b98218b1`: - `just ci`: passed. - Four-package ordinary suite: 2,069 passed; full `buzz-auth` package: 291 passed. - Native Redis: 12 passed. Native PostgreSQL: 1,261 passed. PostgreSQL discovery checks passed. - Required `just test`: units passed, then exited 1 because Docker service bootstrap was unavailable. Native service results above are separate. - Real-router remap checks reject an A-only member under B policy, avoid A data after B admission, and advertise B in discovery despite a stale A cache. Removing each tenant pin separately fails its intended witness; restored source passes. An unmapped host cannot reuse a cached tenant. - Deadline witnesses advance their clock during real HTTP signature verification and retain socket primary-lookup barriers. Removing either final enforced or shadow HTTP deadline check separately fails its intended witness; restored source passes both deadlines and the single-resolution control. - Telemetry regression: unsigned dev proofs now expect the earlier NIP-98 `missing` denial; signed mismatched-key proofs retain pairing denial and signer attribution. Removing unsigned-proof rejection fails the exact two-counter assertion. Restored full relay package: 1,654 passed. - Preserved failed runs: two prior bottom-layer desktop gates failed an immediate inventory assertion, repaired with a bounded wait for the same observable arrays and verified with delayed-notification and frozen-provider controls. An earlier BUZZ-511 native run passed 1,242 tests and failed two deadline fixtures that relied on the tenant lookup removed by the policy pin; the test-only adaptation above replaces that seam. These failures remain archived. The first native run on bottom-layer `130f14a6` passed 1,255 tests and failed partition contention; its focused original test and fresh full 1,256-test run passed without source changes. The cause remains unresolved. The first CI run at `d8d88433` failed the old telemetry expectation; the test-only correction above preserves exact denial counts and attribution. Earlier evidence at `dddf05d8be8195d567db0f989f70825b1246a6c1` (historical head): - `cargo nextest run -p buzz-auth -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay --lib --tests`: 2,139/2,139 passed. - `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay --lib --tests --success-output final`: 1,236/1,236 passed with native PostgreSQL 16 and Redis. Docker's legacy `just test` wrapper was unavailable. - `just ci`: passed, including repository checks, tests and client builds. - **Pre-correction behavior (superseded):** Real ES256 assertions through TCP root/audio upgrades: valid evidence upgrades; missing evidence denies in Off/Shadow, including submitted/inventoried/approved deletion stages. Restoring the old query makes the regression fail on an assertion-less Off/submitted/root HTTP 101. - **Pre-correction behavior (superseded):** Deterministic unarchive race: Notify barriers pause an actual archived-host policy miss; the same required row becomes serving before binding. Both root/audio deny missing assertions and admit valid ES256 assertions in Off/Shadow. Ignoring bound-row policy makes this test fail on an assertion-less HTTP 101. - The full rerun exposed an existing cancellation fixture whose synthetic five-second replica fence expired between probes. Refreshing that test fence per operation preserves its timeout assertions; the full suite now passes. - Local probe: 100 serial uncached primary policy reads took 12.33 ms. Production latency is unmeasured. No packaged-app, human or deployed-fleet acceptance run. Live activation awaits BUZZ-512 and the staging verification tickets. Published with the three-layer stack in one atomic push through normal hooks. The published stack includes main `1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f`, including access logging, storage reporting and mobile read-state changes. Access-slot integration and early HTTP refusal attribution belong to BUZZ-511; activation callback refusal close owners belong to BUZZ-512. Every changed layer requires review at its published head and new-head CI. Fresh trunk, remote membership, queue and immutable-lease guards passed before publication. All nine normal pre-push hook lanes passed; no hooks were bypassed. Remote heads, chained bases, membership, ready/draft states and native tracking were verified after publication. Trunk’s merged 0081 is unchanged. The parent upgrade expansion is 0082 and activation is 0083, with contiguous migrator versions, updated documentation and a populated-upgrade fixture starting at 81. Trunk’s storage-test repair supersedes our earlier local repair. Before publication, main advanced three commits from `1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f` to `ba7d7825ea` (desktop deep-link settling and mobile pairing/sign-in). The normal branch-skew guard passed. Those later trunk commits are outside this validated published head; current-trunk CI and delta review remain required before merge. Generated with Codex --------- Signed-off-by: Brad Seiler <seiler@squareup.com> Co-authored-by: Honor <e0bf479eeebe47dde1e35705212a4df70616a7bc834d907ddfb18cf0405f8b1b@seiler-test.communities.public.builderlabstaging.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.