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Depends on #6994 (merged). Stack: PR 2 #6994 (merged) → this PR (#7109) → PR 4 #7148 → PR 5 ## What Production assertion runtime for NIP-FI Phase A: JWKS caching layer, SSRF-hardened HTTP fetcher, startup validation gate, NIP-11 discovery serialization, federated assertion verifier with sealed key-source authority, and supporting invariant tests. ## Changes ### `crates/buzz-auth/src/nip_fi/jwks/` `ProductionJwksSource<F>` implements the sealed `IssuerKeySource` trait: - `HttpJwksFetcher`: reqwest-backed fetch with SSRF protection — URI validation (HTTPS, no credentials, no fragment, no host matched by the shared enumerated deny policy), per-fetch DNS resolution rejecting any resolved address matched by the shared enumerated deny policy, address pinning to prevent DNS rebinding TOCTOU, redirect denial, incremental body streaming capped at 512 KiB before any parse - IPv6 host extraction via typed `Url::host()` accessor (strips brackets before SSRF check and provides the correct bare input form for reqwest `resolve()` pinning; the bracketed form from `host_str()` fails `IpAddr::parse` and does not match the URL authority key) - Complete-operation deadline via `tokio::time::timeout` covering DNS resolution through body streaming - Bounded periodic refresh with configurable interval and hard snapshot deadline - Cancellation-safe RAII refresh permit: dropped on future cancellation so the next caller can re-fetch - Content-digest-gated generation counter: identical re-fetches preserve generation; key rotations advance it - Injectable clock (`now_fn: Arc<dyn Fn() -> DateTime<Utc> + Send + Sync>`): production uses `Arc::new(Utc::now)`; all four deadline creation and expiry checks use `(self.now_fn)()`, enabling controlled-time testing without wall-clock sleep `JwksSourceContract`: a closed value type that is the single source of truth for the three deployment fields whose change alters which keys the runtime trusts and how long it trusts them: - `jwks_uri` — selects the authenticated key source; validated at construction (HTTPS, no credentials/fragment, no bare private-IP host); stored as the `Url`-normalized form so that equivalent spellings (uppercase host, explicit default port `:443`, dot-segment paths like `/.well-known/./jwks.json`) converge to the same `AssertionPolicyId` - `refresh_interval_seconds` — defines bounded refresh behavior; positive, ≤ 1 year, strictly < `key_snapshot_hard_deadline_seconds` - `key_snapshot_hard_deadline_seconds` — defines the source's accepted time rule; every `VerifiedAssertion.revalidation_dependencies` deadline derives from this `JwksSourceContract` is a required `IssuerPolicy` input and is included in `derive_assertion_policy_id` after a domain separator. `IssuerJwksConfig` embeds the contract instead of independently restating these fields — startup validation rejects any contract mismatch (`NipFiStartupError::JwksContractMismatch`). ### `crates/buzz-auth/src/nip_fi/verifier.rs` - `FederatedAssertionVerifier<S>`: provider-neutral verifier over a closed multi-issuer registry and sealed `IssuerKeySource` - `Arc<S>: IssuerKeySource` forwarding impl (blanket seal for `Arc<S>` in the sealed module) — one `Arc<ProductionJwksSource>` can be shared across multiple verifiers; all observe JWKS refreshes through the shared cache without rebuilding the verifier - `AssertionKeySet`: crate-private constructor seals issuer binding — no external crate can relabel issuer B's JWKS as issuer A - Sealed `IssuerKeySource` trait closes the authority-construction seam at both ends ### `crates/buzz-core/src/network.rs` Renamed `is_private_ip` to `is_not_global_unicast` (compat alias retained) and restored the complete IANA deny/exception table from this branch's own history (`272dacadb`). The predicate is an enumerated deny/explicit exception policy: addresses covered by a named deny rule are rejected; addresses not covered by any explicit deny rule (e.g. `fe00::1`) pass through. Deny rules are derived from the IANA Special-Purpose Address Space registries (last updated 2025-10-09), with globally-reachable exceptions carved out explicitly (e.g. PCP/TURN anycast inside 2001::/23). Blocked IPv4 classes: loopback (127/8), private RFC 1918 (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), link-local (169.254/16), unspecified (0/8), broadcast, CGNAT/RFC 6598 (100.64/10), benchmarking/RFC 2544 (198.18/15), IETF Protocol Assignments (192.0.0.0/24, globally reachable exceptions: 192.0.0.9 PCP anycast RFC 7723 and 192.0.0.10 TURN anycast RFC 8155), documentation/RFC 5737 (192.0.2/24, 198.51.100/24, 203.0.113/24), deprecated 6to4 relay anycast (192.88.99.0/24, RFC 7526, global=None → conservative deny), multicast/RFC 5771 (224/4), reserved class-E (240/4). Blocked IPv6 classes: loopback (::1), unspecified (::), ULA (fc00::/7), link-local (fe80::/10), deprecated site-local (fec0::/10, RFC 3879), multicast (ff00::/8), IETF Protocol Assignments envelope (2001::/23, globally reachable exceptions: 2001:1::1–::3 PCP/TURN/DNS-SD anycast, 2001:3::/32 AMT RFC 7450, 2001:4:112::/48 AS112-v6 RFC 7535, 2001:20::/28 ORCHIDv2 RFC 7343, 2001:30::/28 DETs RFC 9374), documentation (2001:db8::/32 RFC 3849, 3fff::/20 RFC 9637), 6to4 (2002::/16, RFC 3056), Discard-Only (100::/64, RFC 6666), Dummy IPv6 Prefix (100:0:0:1::/64, RFC 9780), SRv6 SIDs (5f00::/16, RFC 9252), NAT64 local-use (64:ff9b:1::/48, RFC 8215). IPv4 embedded in mapped, compatible, NAT64 well-known (64:ff9b::/96), and SIIT IPv4-translated (::ffff:0:0:0/96) forms is checked recursively. All three callers (JWKS boundary, webhook SSRF, link-preview SSRF) inherit the complete predicate through the inline `is_private_ip` compatibility alias. ### Invariant coverage **Canonical URI convergence.** `jwks_contract_uri_canonicalization_convergence_and_divergence` asserts that uppercase host, explicit `:443`, and dot-segment path (`/.well-known/./jwks.json`) each produce the same `AssertionPolicyId` as the canonical form; a genuinely different host or path diverges. Mutation: storing raw input bytes instead of `parsed.to_string()` turns the three convergence assertions red. **Resolved-target and pin-input seam.** `resolved_target_and_pin_key_seam_public_ipv6_and_fec0_rejection` carries a public `2606:4700::1` URI through all three stages of `fetch_jwks_inner`: `extract_url_host_and_port` yields the bare host (no brackets), `resolve_and_check_ssrf` takes the IP-literal fast path and returns the accepted `IpAddr`, and the extracted host string equals the URL authority form (verifying the correct bare input to reqwest's `resolve()` pin call). `fec0::1` traverses the same extraction and SSRF stages and is rejected as `InvalidUri`. Network-free: both addresses are IP literals with no DNS lookup. Mutation: restoring `host_str()` brackets the address, `IpAddr::parse` fails, the SSRF fast path is unreachable, and all three assertions flip red. **Controlled original-deadline rotation.** `shared_arc_source_verifier_rejects_expired_a1_accepts_a2` uses an `AtomicI64`-backed injectable clock to advance past A1's original absolute deadline without wall-clock sleep. A1's deadline is computed at T0 and never mutated. The clock advances to T0 + HARD_DEADLINE_SECS + 1; `get_snapshot` fires a re-fetch and installs A2. One unchanged `FederatedAssertionVerifier` then rejects A1-signed tokens (deadline enforced by the `key_set` read path) and accepts A2-signed tokens, proves A2's generation is strictly greater, and confirms A2's deadline is later than A1's original. Mutation oracle: replace the shared `Arc` with an independently constructed source built from the same configs and sharing the same controlled clock, warmed with a separate A1 fetch before advancement. Post-advancement, `key_set()` on the verifier's independent source filters the expired A1 snapshot (`filter(|c| now < c.hard_deadline)`) and returns no keys — the verifier never re-fetches and never observes A2. A1-reject stays green (the independent cache is also expired, so no A1 keys are served), but A2-accept flips red, because the verifier never observes A2. A2 acceptance is the reliable shared-source oracle. **Complete SSRF classifier boundary.** JWKS-boundary tests cover every newly restored class through `validate_jwks_uri` (URI-validation path): `192.0.0.1` (IETF Protocol Assignments interior), `192.0.0.9`/`.10` (PCP/TURN anycast global exceptions), `192.88.99.1` (deprecated 6to4 anycast), `2001:2::1` (2001::/23 interior), `2001:1::1` (2001::/23 global exception), `100::1` (Discard-Only), `3fff::1` (documentation), and `5f00::1` (SRv6 SIDs). URI validation and resolved-target enforcement share the same `is_not_global_unicast` predicate, so these URI-path tests exercise the complete classifier table. All pass mutation: removing any deny branch makes the rejection assertion red; removing any exception branch makes the acceptance assertion red. The resolved-target enforcement path is covered separately by `resolved_target_and_pin_key_seam_public_ipv6_and_fec0_rejection` for `::1` (loopback), public `2606:4700::1`, and `fec0::1`. --------- Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Cea Stapleton Cordasco <261786559+cea@users.noreply.github.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
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.