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**Category:** fix **User Impact:** Hover tooltips and informational popovers now wait for deliberate pointer dwell instead of appearing while users move around the app. **Problem:** Tooltips and hover-controlled popovers appeared after inconsistent, often very short delays, so moving across composer and navigation controls could obstruct the next interaction. **Solution:** Establish a 500 ms shared dwell default with no tooltip skip-delay cascade, apply it to informational hover-controlled Popovers, and preserve immediate click and keyboard behavior. The responsive Community actions navigation submenu retains its documented 80 ms open / 160 ms close timing. ## Before / after | Before | After | |---|---| |  |  | <details> <summary>File changes</summary> **desktop/src/shared/ui/tooltip.tsx** Wraps the Radix provider with documented 500 ms and zero skip-delay defaults. The provider API still permits a future proven exception, but no current `desktop/src` caller overrides either timing. **desktop/src/shared/ui/popover.tsx** Exports the documented shared hover-open timing for controlled popovers; ordinary click/focus Popovers remain immediate. **desktop/src/main.tsx** Uses the shared Tooltip provider defaults at the application root. **desktop/src/shared/ui/sidebar.tsx** Removes the sidebar's instant Tooltip timing override. **desktop/src/features/channels/ui/AddChannelBotTeamsSection.tsx** Removes the local short Tooltip timing override. **desktop/src/features/home/ui/InboxDetailPane.tsx** Removes the local short Tooltip timing override. **desktop/src/features/messages/ui/MessageTimeline.tsx** Removes the timeline's local short Tooltip timing override. **desktop/src/features/messages/ui/MessageTimestamp.tsx** Drops the timestamp-only provider now that its 500 ms, zero-skip behavior is shared globally. **desktop/src/features/channels/ui/BotActivityBar.tsx** Raises composer agent-activity hover dwell from 150 ms to the shared default while preserving immediate click/focus opening. **desktop/src/features/sidebar/ui/ChannelActivityPopover.tsx** Raises channel activity hover dwell from 250 ms to the shared default while preserving immediate focus opening. **desktop/src/features/profile/ui/UserProfilePopover.tsx** Reuses the shared hover timing in place of its equivalent local constant. **desktop/src/shared/ui/PubKey.tsx** Reuses the shared hover timing in place of its equivalent local constant. **desktop/src/shared/ui/markdown/InlineEmojiPopover.tsx** Raises emoji inspection hover dwell from 200 ms to the shared default while preserving immediate focus opening. **desktop/src/features/messages/ui/MessageReactions.tsx** Raises reaction inspection hover dwell from 200 ms to the shared default while preserving immediate focus and reaction clicks. **desktop/src/features/communities/ui/CommunitySwitcher.tsx** Documents the Community actions navigation submenu as an intentional timing exception: 80 ms to open responsively and 160 ms to preserve the pointer bridge into its portalled panel. </details> ## Reproduction steps Move the pointer rapidly across each surface first, then hold it still over a labeled control. Hover-only disclosures should stay closed during transit and open after about **500 ms** of deliberate dwell. Moving directly between adjacent Tooltip triggers should start a fresh 500 ms dwell rather than cascading the next Tooltip open immediately. | Surface | Where to test | What to expect | |---|---|---| | Composer controls | Attachment, emoji, image editor, formatting, and composer toolbar buttons | No Tooltip while sweeping across controls; the hovered control's Tooltip opens after ~500 ms. Clicking remains immediate. | | Message actions | Hover a message, then test reply, react, more-actions, edit, and related action-bar controls | Each Tooltip waits ~500 ms, including when moving between adjacent actions. The action itself still runs immediately on click or keyboard activation. | | Message metadata and content tools | Message timestamps, code-block copy controls, diff controls, system-message controls, and video-player controls | Tooltip appears after ~500 ms. Timestamp behavior should look unchanged; it was already 500 ms with no skip cascade. | | Reaction pills | Hover a reaction with one or more reactors; also click the pill | Reactor Popover waits ~500 ms instead of 200 ms. Clicking still toggles the reaction immediately. | | Inline custom emoji | Hover a rendered custom emoji in message Markdown, then focus it with the keyboard | Emoji inspector waits ~500 ms on hover instead of 200 ms. Keyboard focus opens it immediately. | | Masked links | Hover a masked Markdown link, including one revealed inside a spoiler | Destination Tooltip waits ~500 ms instead of the former app-level 300 ms. Hidden spoilers still reveal no destination; keyboard focus remains immediate. | | Main and collapsed sidebar controls | Collapse the sidebar and hover icon-only navigation/menu buttons; also test community-rail controls | Sidebar Tooltips wait ~500 ms instead of opening instantly. Rapid movement across icons should not produce a tooltip cascade. | | Channel header and management controls | Channel members, huddle, settings, thread-view mode, management rows, and quick-agent controls | Each Tooltip waits ~500 ms; click/keyboard behavior remains immediate. | | Add-channel team chips | Open Add channel where saved teams are available and hover a team chip | Team details Tooltip waits ~500 ms instead of 150 ms; clicking the chip still toggles the team immediately. | | Channel activity preview | Hover a sidebar channel that has activity, then keyboard-focus its trigger | Activity Popover waits ~500 ms instead of 250 ms. Focus opens it immediately, and quickly crossing channel rows should not leave previews in the way. | | Composer agent activity | Run an agent so the composer activity control is present; hover, click, and focus it | Hover Popover waits ~500 ms instead of 150 ms. Click and keyboard focus still open it immediately. | | Inbox and draft controls | Home inbox open-context/more-actions controls, inbox-list controls, draft detail, and drafts panel | Tooltips wait ~500 ms instead of the inbox detail's former 200 ms/local defaults. Clicks remain immediate. | | Profile and public-key previews | Hover avatars, names/mentions, project author identities, and displayed public keys | Profile/pubkey Popovers open after ~500 ms, matching their prior behavior; the change centralizes that timing. Click actions and focus behavior remain immediate. | | Agent, team, memory, and update controls | Managed-agent rows, team identity cards, restart-diff badges, memory actions, setup steps, and update indicator | Tooltips wait ~500 ms and do not cascade when traversing adjacent controls. Actions remain immediate. | | Huddle controls | Huddle bar/indicator, mic controls, and participant-list actions | Tooltips wait ~500 ms; mute, join, participant, and keyboard actions remain immediate. | | Projects and activity surfaces | Project/repository cards, overview rail, contribution graph, activity feed, reviewers, and Pulse note controls | Tooltips wait ~500 ms with a fresh dwell between adjacent targets. Clicking/focusing interactive controls remains immediate. | | Intentional interaction-mode exceptions | Focus a Tooltip trigger; click/focus an ordinary Popover; move the pointer from an open hover Popover into its panel | Tooltip focus and Popover click/focus open immediately because they are explicit user intent, not incidental hover. Hover Popovers retain their 180–200 ms close grace so the pointer can cross into the panel. The Community actions navigation submenu is the intentional exception: it opens after 80 ms and keeps its 160 ms pointer bridge; informational hover Popovers use the shared 500 ms delay. | ## Verification - `pnpm typecheck` - `pnpm check` (passes with three existing diagnostics outside this diff) - `pnpm test` — 4,775 passed - `pnpm build` --------- Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.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.