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Stacked on #8700. Review only the last commit until #8700 merges. NIP-FI relays can publish a relay-signed verified name for each member who signs in with an organization assertion (kind 30382, specified in #8745 and implemented in the relay in #8774). Desktop shows these names in block/buzz-app#2005. Mobile showed only self-declared kind 0 names, so a verified Block name looked no different from one anyone could set. This adds verified names to mobile, following the spec and the desktop client's validation rules. **What people see** - A verified member's name is the issuer-verified display name wherever mobile resolves names through identity names (message headers, threads, DM titles, member lists). - Message headers and the profile sheet show a verification mark. The profile sheet also shows the full name when present, "Verified by {issuer}", "Last verified {time ago}", and marks the record as cached when it hasn't been reconciled with the relay on this connection. Verification is described as historical, never as current access. - Nothing changes on relays that don't advertise `federated_identity.public_profile`, and marks never come from kind 0 or NIP-05. **How it works** - NIP-11 discovery decides whether marks may show: a successful response without `public_profile` hides them (cached records are kept), and a failed or malformed response keeps the last state. Discovery refreshes on connect and every 5 minutes while names are tracked. - Subjects are tracked as the profile cache resolves them, and fetched in batches of up to 128 with `{kinds:[30382], authors:[self], #d:[...]}`. Live updates and retractions apply on the same subscription. A full batch that omits subjects is not treated as proof they have no record. - Each event's id and signature are verified (in an isolate) before use, and it must be authored by the community's NIP-11 `self` key with exactly the specified tags (plus the optional `full_name` the relay emits). Names follow the spec's NFC and character rules; `unorm_dart` (MIT, pure Dart) is added for the NFC check because Dart has no built-in normalizer. - The cache is per community and is cleared when the relay's `self` key changes. **Not yet covered** - Some surfaces still read the kind 0 name directly: the members sheet initial, and search and inbox rows. The mark isn't shown in search rows, inbox rows, or member tiles. (The mention picker now matches, ranks and inserts by the verified name and shows the mark, and it also offers cached verified people outside the channel whose kind 0 name differs.) - NIP-FI says clients MUST show `issuer_label` beside every verified name. Here it appears only in the mark's tooltip and accessibility label and in the profile sheet, and verified names reaching DM titles and member lists show no mark or issuer. Follow-up: show the issuer inline wherever a verified name is shown. - Live updates are coalesced to the newest per subject before signature proof, ordered by unverified `created_at`/`id`. Only a misbehaving relay could exploit this (the subscription is `authors:[self]`), and it could already withhold events. Follow-up: prove first, then coalesce among valid events. - The verified `username` isn't shown beside the name in message headers (the NIP-05 handle still is). - Collision qualification relies on the existing name-disambiguation policy rather than the spec's exact self-declared-name rule. ### Validation Added tests: - Validation: discovery enabled, disabled and malformed; wrong author; mismatched or duplicate `d`/`p`; extra or duplicate tags; invalid usernames; non-NFC and whitespace-padded names; `verified_at` after `created_at`; bad signatures; retractions. - Directory: discovery gating, batching, truncation, live retraction, reconnect reconciliation, and disable hiding cached records. - Directory failures: a pre-EOSE flood, failed proof retried on refresh, oversized events (by total size, id or signature) dropped before proof, live events coalesced, a retry before or after the first EOSE never proving absence, a retry during proof not promoting records to checked, and a newer signed malformed projection clearing the older one. - Mention picker: a verified name finds, ranks and inserts the verified person; the self-declared name still finds them; a verified person outside the channel is found by verified name even when an impostor copies that name into kind 0. - Identity names: a verified name outranks the kind 0 name. - UI: the mark in message headers and the profile sheet details, no mark for a cached record, and a single accessible label. Full `mobile-check` and `mobile-test` pass. **Live relay (checked 2026-11-01):** not yet run end to end. - Staging now advertises the feature: the bb-block staging relay's NIP-11 (`buzz.block.builderlabstaging.xyz`) has `federated_identity.public_profile` with `kind: 30382` and `multiple_issuers: false`, bound to `self` `f7f4df94…dcf1`. So #8774 is deployed and enabled there. The other staging relays (`communities.public.builderlabstaging.xyz` and its `team.` host) advertise no `federated_identity`, and the client shows nothing on them. - I couldn't confirm that real 30382 events are served or render them. The relay requires NIP-42 auth plus a client-attached NIP-FI assertion, which needs an interactive Builderlab/Okta sign-in on a physical device. SSO doesn't work in the iOS simulator. The remaining step is a device run signed in to the staging Block community, with screenshots of a verified name, its mark and its details. **Shipping behind discovery gating:** this is safe. The client reads and shows verified names only when a successful NIP-11 discovery advertises `public_profile` bound to `self`. It accepts only kind 30382 events signed by that key that pass id and signature verification and strict shape checks. On every relay without the feature, which is every relay but bb-block staging today, it shows nothing new and changes no names. A failed or malformed discovery never turns the feature on, and it marks cached records as unchecked, which hides their mark. The subscription and reconciliation paths are covered by the tests above, and Carl's review reran retry probes through the real `RelaySessionNotifier`. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com> Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 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. |
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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.