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## Why PR #6660 introduced four PostgreSQL-backed persistence tests and a focused CI selector, but an exact test-name list does not automatically cover future database tests. Broad ignored-test execution also exposed shared-schema races and ambiguity between desired-state and migration-applied schema expectations. ## What - Establish a discoverable convention: PostgreSQL unit modules use `postgres_tests`, PostgreSQL integration binaries use a `postgres_` prefix, and unrelated external-infrastructure tests use an `external_infra_` prefix. - Add a dedicated nextest PostgreSQL profile and archive-backed CI job covering the relevant crates without enumerating test names. - Create a run-scoped desired-state source database and a unique PostgreSQL database per test process for parallel-safe isolation, with cleanup on success, failure, or interruption. - Route destructive migration and migration-parity tests to clean `template0` databases while desired-state tests clone the desired-state database. - Document discovery, schema modes, required role privileges, and a bounded portable local runner. - Keep the existing infrastructure-free unit-test jobs unchanged. This is intentionally limited to test and CI harness behavior. It does not move production database code, change persistence semantics, or implement issue #20's broader shared test-utility refactor. ## Risk Low production risk because all changes are confined to tests, CI configuration, documentation, and test harness scripts. Remaining operational risks: - Cleanup retries `dropdb --force` five times across roughly four seconds. Exhaustion warns with the database name but deliberately does not mask the test result; individual PostgreSQL diagnostics are suppressed. - The seven-package boundary is duplicated between the runner and CI archive and must remain synchronized if PostgreSQL tests move to a new crate. - Portable SHA fallback branches were exercised on Linux; no macOS Blox workstation was needed for this Linux CI artifact. - GitHub's unchanged generic Unit Tests job currently fails while cold-linking `buzz-voice` because `sherpa-onnx-c-api` is absent. The branch changes no voice/build/toolchain inputs; the exact parent previously passed that job, and Blox passes the same infrastructure-free suite (1,450/1,450). A prior-head one-job retry and the final-head run both reproduced the hosted-runner failure. ## Verification Author Blox workstation `2020088`: - `cargo fmt --all -- --check` - `just clippy` - `just test-unit`: 1,450 passed; PostgreSQL tests remain skipped in fast jobs - PR #6660 focused tests: 4/4 passed through the final runner - Full lane: 282/282 passed in 10.087s with a non-superuser role limited to `CREATEDB`, `CREATEROLE`, and `pg_read_all_stats` - 272 desired-state tests - 10 migration-applied tests - 6 explicitly filtered external-infrastructure tests - Cleanup fault injection: a deliberately underprivileged 282-test run produced the expected 277 passes and 5 failures, and the post-run catalog audit found zero lane databases after retry cleanup. The restored successful run also left zero lane databases. GitHub exact final head `92c231e48f299ea2af23817763f5ae80ac013d68`: - [PostgreSQL Tests](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/32789030203/job/97630827823): 282/282 passed across 10 binaries in 98.886s; 1,240 skipped, including 6 via the profile filter - The shared relay/PostgreSQL archive predecessor completed successfully - [Unit Tests](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/32789030203/job/97626930420): unrelated `sherpa-onnx-c-api` native-link failure described above - Independent exact-head review on separate Blox workstation `2022762`: no substantive findings after all initial findings were addressed. The reviewer independently verified cleanup retry behavior, exit-status preservation, shell portability, syntax, and a clean exact-head worktree. ## References - Stacked on #6660 at exact head `561de54be4d9c2b622b7c2aa5b61bc3068f47e2a` - https://github.com/TheSentinel454/buzz/issues/20 - https://github.com/TheSentinel454/buzz/issues/20#issuecomment-5398526792 Generated with Codex. ## Update — August 24, 2026 review follow-up - Centralized the repeated PostgreSQL test URL resolution in crate-local, test-only helpers without introducing the broader shared utility refactor from issue #20. - Restored descriptive hybrid/Redis test function names. Structural `external_infra_*_tests` modules now own exclusion, and the nextest filter only recognizes module path segments. - Added a three-second source guard that scans every Rust file and fails CI when an ignored PostgreSQL test would be omitted or an external-infrastructure test would be included. Fixture tests cover accepted modules/binaries and both failure modes. - Removed the two implementation-plan documents. Performance profiling on Blox workstation `2027352` (same prebuilt archive and cargo-nextest 0.9.143 for every comparison): - Current per-test database model, 8 workers: 10.15–10.40s across three runs. The 283 `createdb` calls and 284 `dropdb` calls consumed 28.85–29.46 aggregate seconds, about 39–40% of aggregate test-process duration. - Reusing one database per worker without cleanup: 6.55–6.84s, about 35% faster, but all three runs failed because global matcher-queue tests inherited a quiesced community from an earlier test; the failing test varied with scheduling. - Reusing workers with `TRUNCATE … RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE`: all 282 tests passed, but total time regressed to 10.47–10.67s. The 265 truncate calls consumed 24.34–25.45 aggregate seconds, so truncation merely replaced most clone/drop cost. - Raising concurrency to 16 workers reduced one isolated-database run to 8.79s, but 24 workers exposed a cluster-global `pg_stat_activity` race. The profile remains at the proven-safe 8 workers. Decision: retain unique per-test databases. Harness cleanup uses `dropdb --if-exists --force`; it drops the database rather than truncating tables or deleting rows. Verification at local branch head `60086c1f6ee34a193c342255a5e8e6293b60e988`: - Discovery inventory: exactly 282 intended tests; all 6 hybrid/Redis tests present and structurally excluded. - PR #6660 focused persistence tests: 4/4 passed. - Full PostgreSQL lane: 282/282 passed three times; 1,240 skipped each run; wall time 9.72–9.96s without profiling shims. - Non-ignored tests with a desired-state database: 1,234/1,234 passed; one mesh-demo timeout from the first run passed immediately in isolation. - `cargo fmt --all -- --check` and all-target/all-feature clippy for `buzz-db`, `buzz-deletion`, and `buzz-relay` passed. Final independent re-review at exact head `42097c0136ab3fa8f0efe5720ae829c04575b9b6` on separate Blox workstation `2028455`: no substantive residual findings. The reviewer independently exercised ordinary strings, zero/one/three-hash raw strings, line/block comments, and string-contained lookalikes, then reran the full 353-file scan, shell syntax, Python AST parsing, and diff check. Independent review found that the source guard's initial regular expression could miss raw-string ignore reasons and treat a commented attribute as real. Final head `42097c0136ab3fa8f0efe5720ae829c04575b9b6` parses valid ordinary/raw Rust string literals only at attributes found in comment-sanitized source; regression fixtures cover both cases. The fixture suite, Python compilation, shell syntax, diff check, and full 353-file repository scan pass on Blox. ## Update — August 25, 2026 restack PR #6660 merged, so this follow-up was rebased from its former exact parent onto current `origin/main` (`8d2d0ff5ad42733e9949442c4b6358d0ba87f9a8`). The final candidate head is `05dcc2ab28948e3ab79bb44839a69f2ba44648a2`; the PR no longer carries #6660's pre-squash history. Fresh exact-head verification on Blox workstation `2028572`: - Discovery guard passed across 353 Rust files; inventory remained exactly 282 intended PostgreSQL tests. - PR #6660 focused persistence tests: 4/4 passed. - Full PostgreSQL lane: 282/282 passed three times; 1,243 skipped each run; wall time 9.70–9.87s. - `cargo fmt --all -- --check` and all-target/all-feature clippy for `buzz-db`, `buzz-deletion`, and `buzz-relay` passed. ## Update — August 25, 2026 final hosted verification - [GitHub PostgreSQL Tests](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/32801679226/job/97667835080): 282/282 passed in 53.787s; 1,243 skipped. - The final guard scanned all 353 Rust files successfully before the hosted lane ran. - The shared relay/archive prerequisite and infrastructure-free Unit Tests job both passed at exact final head `42097c0136ab3fa8f0efe5720ae829c04575b9b6`. --------- Signed-off-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com> Signed-off-by: tornquist <tornquist@squareup.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.