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## Summary Fixes the two CI workflow defects that turned `main` red most often in the 21–28 Oct 2026 audit: - **Desktop Tauri:** the lane now caches its apt `.deb`s. It no longer re-downloads 62 MB from a slow Ubuntu mirror on every run. - **Windows Rust:** the lane drops a duplicate `cargo check` and gets a 60 min cap, so a cold run can save its cache. It also updates #8613's `scripts/flake-check.test.mjs`, which breaks once the Tauri package list moves into an env var. There are no product code or test-behaviour changes. This is one of seven PRs split out of the `flakey-tests` branch (siblings below). ### Related issue None found. #8613 touched both workflows after the audit, but not these steps. No open PR changes how the Tauri packages are fetched, the Windows timeout, or its Check (workspace) step: - #8422, #8321 and #8373 only add packages to the list, and would now add them to `TAURI_APT_PACKAGES`. - #8414 adds two mesh-llm Tauri steps to the Windows job. If it lands, they must fit the cold budget below. ### CI failures fixed | Lane / test | Failing runs | Cause | Change | |---|---|---|---| | Desktop Tauri, "Install Tauri dependencies (Linux)" (`_ci-desktop.yml`) | 62 jobs in 51 run attempts, 22–27 Oct. On main: 39821769576, 39822883395, 39827234118, 40333705511, 40342468627, 40348069929, 40353619362, 40368315739, 40373404267, 40374519539, 40556742929 | All 3 `ci-apt-retry.sh` attempts hit their 420 s limit while `azure.archive.ubuntu.com` served the 62 MB at 20–65 KB/s. The 25.5 MB `libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0` alone takes a whole attempt, and each attempt loses its partial download. | The package list moves to a job-level `TAURI_APT_PACKAGES`. A new "Resolve Tauri apt archives" step builds the cache key from `apt-get install --print-uris -o Acquire::ForceHash=SHA256` (name, size and SHA256 per file). `actions/cache/restore` uses that key. The install step copies only the restored files whose SHA256 matches the signed index, because apt 2.8.3 reuses any same-size cached `.deb` without hashing it. A best-effort rebuild keeps exactly the listed files. `actions/cache/save` runs only on core-lane pushes after a successful rebuild; PR runs never save. | | Windows Rust (`_ci-rust.yml`) | All on main: 39796569342 (job 119885795086), 39821769576 (119975358772), 39827234118 (119994286695), 39865872891 (120128351939), 40402556064 (121852634685) | Every test passed. Cold steps take 41.3–43.5 min, so the 45 min cap cancelled the `Swatinem/rust-cache` post-run save 1.6–3.7 min in. No cache was written, and the next push was cold again. | Delete "Check (workspace)". The clippy step before it covers the same `--workspace --all-targets` set with `-D warnings`, which saves 2.0–2.8 min. Raise `timeout-minutes` from 45 to 60, with the measured breakdown in a comment: 39–41 min of steps, a ~4.5 min save and ~15 min of margin. | | `scripts/flake-check.test.mjs` "repeat invocations mirror the lanes they stand in for" | None in CI yet: it fails only with this change applied | #8613 added this test after `flakey-tests` branched. It checks that the advisory `flake-tauri` lane installs the same packages as the Desktop Tauri core lane, by regex-matching the inline `apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \` list in `_ci-desktop.yml`. That list now lives in `TAURI_APT_PACKAGES`, so the regex matched nothing and the test failed with "Desktop Tauri apt packages". | Read `TAURI_APT_PACKAGES` from `_ci-desktop.yml` and compare package names (12 on each side) with `_ci-flake.yml`'s list. Renaming one package in `_ci-flake.yml` still fails the test. Giving the `flake-tauri` lane the same read-only `.deb` restore is a follow-up. | Local evidence is from the original `flakey-tests` commit (9aa768a3b): - The apt steps ran verbatim in Ubuntu 24.04 containers with apt 2.8.3, with the cache restore and the save step's `if:` emulated. - On a miss, the install fetches everything ("Need to get 254 MB"). On an exact hit with the network down, it fetches nothing ("Need to get 0 B/254 MB"). - On a fallback with one `.deb` missing and one corrupted at the same size, the hash check rejects the corrupt file, and apt re-fetches only the corrupt and missing files. - The key was identical in all four simulated jobs. - The Windows numbers come from the jobs API for the five runs above. On this branch, the split session ran the `scripts/` node tests: `ci-selection`, `ci-required-gates`, `ci-apt-retry` and `flake-check` on macOS gave 84 pass, 0 fail and 8 skipped (Linux-only). Before the `flake-check.test.mjs` fix, that test failed 1 case. The same session ran actionlint 1.7.12 with shellcheck, which was clean, and the rust-cache contract scripts, which passed. ### Verification This branch was pushed without further local re-verification, by the user's choice: local test runs were overloading the machine and failing for that reason. **Hosted CI is the check.** It was pushed with `git push --no-verify` over SSH. The pre-push hook runs tests, and the HTTPS token lacks the `workflow` scope. Only hosted CI can show: - The runner's real package list (about 62 MB) and the same key in all three Tauri lanes. - The `actions/cache` round trip. The first PR run misses, because `main` has no key yet. After merge, the first push to `main` saves it. - A cold Windows run saving its cache within the new cap. The next toolchain bump or cache eviction will show it. Remaining risk: after Ubuntu updates a large package, runs fetch it from the mirror until a push to `main` saves a new key. ### Readiness CI-only change. AGENTS.md's readiness steps (agent review, then human confirmation) are still outstanding, so `buzz-review-completed` is not set. ### Merge order Independent of the other six. It merges cleanly onto `main`, and with every sibling, in any order. ### Sibling PRs Split from `flakey-tests` (one PR per area): #8676 (PostgreSQL lease + lane), #8677 (relay E2E helper + Windows shell), #8678 (mobile), #8680 (desktop product races), #8681 (desktop E2E state gates), #8682 (desktop E2E composer + row actions). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Signed-off-by: Matt Toohey <contact@matttoohey.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. |
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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.