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## Summary This drops the channel-TTL event trigger. The application already refreshes ephemeral-channel deadlines in the event transaction (`event_follow_up::refresh_channel_ttls`, from #8135), so the trigger only repeats that work. This PR originally retired both follow-up triggers. #8352 has since retired the push-match trigger in migration 0063, so after the rebase this PR covers only the TTL half. Migration `0065_retire_channel_ttl_trigger.sql`: - `SET LOCAL lock_timeout = '5s'` (the same bound as 0063) - drops `events_refresh_channel_ttl` and `refresh_channel_ttl_after_event_insert()` Dropping the trigger on the partitioned parent also drops its partition clones. Published migrations, including 0022 and 0024, stay checksum-frozen. The same objects are removed from `schema/` (`schema/functions/…`, `schema/triggers/events.sql`, `schema/schema.sql`) and from the pgschema reconcile script. After this, migrated and desired-state databases have no event follow-up triggers. Tests: - `follow_up_retirement_tests.rs` (renamed from `push_retirement_tests.rs`): the push-retirement upgrade test now stops at 0063. A new test upgrades 0064 → 0065 and checks that the TTL trigger is gone from the parent and every partition, that the function is gone, and that the published checksums haven't changed. - `event_follow_up_postgres_tests.rs`: the contract now has two arms. `AppOnly` is the shipped schema, where both triggers are absent. `Dual` reconstructs the historical overlap of both triggers. The `PushRetired` arm (the push trigger dropped, the TTL trigger kept) was the shipped state before this PR. Its tests are removed because `Dual` and `AppOnly` together cover it. - `embedded_migrator_contains_consolidated_initial_schema` pins the 0065 statements and checks that both objects are absent from the desired schema. **Deploy gate:** do not run 0065 against a database still served by a relay older than #8135. After 0065, raw SQL writers no longer refresh TTL deadlines. `docs/push-gateway-deployment.md` is updated to match. ### What got simpler The trigger and the app no longer both refresh TTL deadlines; the app is now the only producer. One plpgsql function and one trigger are gone from both schema paths, and 8 per-partition drops are gone from the reconcile script. The follow-up contract drops from three arms to two. ### Related issue BUZZ-313 (Linear), part of the trigger-retirement work. ### Testing Head is `4f7d0baf0`. Results below are at `678927730` unless noted. `678927730..4f7d0baf0` changes only one test in `crates/buzz-db/src/store/event.rs`, described in the first bullet. - **Fixed test, `permanent_channel_event_commits_do_not_lock_the_channel_row`** (`4f7d0baf0`). - **Why it changed:** after 0065, its raw-pool inserts no longer ran any TTL refresh, so the test passed whatever `refresh_channel_ttls` did. This was raised in review. - **What it does now:** it inserts through the production `AdmittedTx` path and keeps the barrier and the tuple-lock probe. It commits all N transactions while an external transaction holds `FOR SHARE` on the channel row. It also asserts that no `buzz_db_channel_ttl_refresh_failures_total` is counted. - **Mutation check:** with `SELECT … FOR UPDATE` injected into `refresh_channel_ttl`, the new test fails (`must not wait on the channel row`, timeout at 10s). The old test passes under the same mutation. - **Blox:** fmt and `buzz-db` clippy pass. - **GitHub CI at `4f7d0baf0`:** every required check passes (56 pass, 0 fail). CI builds the merge ref with `main` `93ffc37cb`. - **New and renamed tests, checked by name in the CI logs at `4f7d0baf0`.** These pass in PostgreSQL Domain / PostgreSQL Tests ([117033725006](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38915998692/job/117033725006)): - `permanent_channel_event_commits_do_not_lock_the_channel_row` - `migration_schema_ttl_retirement_drops_every_partition_trigger_and_keeps_checksums` - `migration_schema_push_retirement_preserves_ttl_and_published_checksums` - `event_insert_ttl_refresh_handles_permanent_ephemeral_duplicate_and_activation_race` - `{desired,migration_schema}_event_follow_up_contract_{dual,app_only}` (four tests) `embedded_migrator_contains_consolidated_initial_schema` passes in Rust / Unit Tests ([117024125423](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38915998692/job/117024125423)). No `*_push_retired` test runs anywhere. - **Blox gates at `678927730`** (private PG16 + Redis, on a workstation shared with other sessions): - `cargo fmt --check`, workspace `clippy -D warnings` and `buzz-db --lib` all pass. - The `buzz-admin`, `buzz-audit`, `buzz-deletion`, `buzz-push-gateway`, `buzz-search` and `buzz-workflow` Postgres packages pass. - `buzz-db`: 517 of 519 tests passed. The 2 that hung, both `writer_pool_*` tests, were killed. `buzz-relay`: 413 of 426 passed. The 13 failures are covered below. - **Uncontended reruns at `4f7d0baf0`** on a fresh, idle workstation (PG16.15, `competing=0` for every arm): - **`writer_pool_rejects_non_read_committed_database_default` predates this PR.** It timed out 3/3 at head and 3/3 at `main` `93ffc37cb`, with a 300s timeout per run. - **`writer_pool_metrics_stop_after_session_timeout_setup_failure` also predates this PR.** It timed out 2/3 at head and 2/3 at `main`, and passed in the remaining run on each side. - Both tests pass in CI. The gate accepts them as a named exception for this PR, as a pre-existing hang on the PG16 test environment. - **`buzz-db`:** 518 of 519 tests passed. The single failure is `writer_pool_rejects_non_read_committed_database_default`, killed after it hung (the exception above). - **`buzz-relay`: still open.** 413 of 426 tests passed. The same 13 `handlers::group_state_postgres_tests` failed as on the shared box, each panicking at once in its fixture's `ensure community` step with `Sqlx(PoolTimedOut)`. Contention does not explain them. The fixture's community setup is in `buzz-db`, which this PR changes. A head/`main` comparison of the full `buzz-relay` package on the same idle box is running to find out whether this predates the PR. All 13 pass in CI at this head. - **E2E (Gimli, Blox)** at `050e593af`. `050e593af..678927730` changes only tests and docs; the migration, schema and runtime code are byte-identical. Gimli's audited verdict: **EXERCISED AND WORKS**, for DB and relay runtime only. Gimli ran it at `050e593af`; this head's runtime is byte-identical but was not freshly executed. - **Upgrade:** a real relay startup took the schema from 0064 to 0065. That removed the TTL function and the trigger from the parent table and from all 8 partitions. Checksums for migrations 1–64 are unchanged. - **Lock-timeout rollback:** with a real lock held, the migration failed with `55P03` at 5.0007s and the schema rolled back fully to 64. Once the lock was released, a retry applied 65. - **Fresh desired schema:** after pgschema plus reconcile, the retired objects are absent. - **Real signed kind-9 sends:** on both schema paths, these refreshed ephemeral-channel deadlines to about +600s. Permanent channels stayed NULL. - **Raw SQL insert:** at 64 it refreshed the deadline. After 65 it left the deadline unchanged, on both the upgraded and the fresh schema. - **Not covered:** native or device testing, and deploy. - **Review:** Legolas found 0 P0 and 0 P1. His three optional P2s are fixed in `678927730`. - **No human app test:** this is a DB-only change. - **Migration numbering:** #8237 and #8372 also add a `0065_*` migration. Whichever PR merges second must renumber. --------- Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.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.