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Tom Brow 4b21a10c4b fix: don't notify workflow owners through their attribution tag (#8694)
A workflow message names its owner in a marked p tag, ["p", owner, "", "owner"], for attribution. #p live, history and push matching, operator listeners, desktop, mobile and the iOS NSE treat that tag as attribution rather than a mention. A workflow that mentions its owner adds a plain p, so the owner is notified only when actually mentioned. NOSTR.md records the #p exception.

Co-authored-by: studio <dc2fc481343672df31a689840c09299972e704dac592e0da6f18486646a7ee3e@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
2026-10-29 15:21:56 -07:00

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Buzz push notes

Push is experimental. These notes capture current decisions; we will write a stable specification after validating the design through launch and use. NIP-PL is background, not the current Buzz contract.

  • Relays advertise buzz-push-v1, never nip-pl. Updated clients require it.
  • Compatible changes keep the capability name. Incompatible behavior that clients must distinguish gets a new version.
  • Each gateway serves one server-configured Apple application and APNs transport. Enrollment, transcripts, grants, leases and discovery have no application-profile selector. The relay advertises transport classes in class_support.
  • Existing grants and pending enrollment records are not migrated. The new client uses separate Keychain records and enrolls again. Keep old production push disabled so released clients never acquire legacy push authority.
  • Stop old gateway replicas before cutover. The gateway migration requires an empty authority store because endpoint fingerprints changed. The relay migration requires no active legacy leases. Neither migration deletes that state.
  • Publish the matching gateway image and chart, update deployment configuration, then enable the new relay capability. Verify enrollment, delivery, renewal and revocation on a physical device before production activation.

Channel identifier grammar

Relays advertise h_grammar: "uuid-v4-lowercase". Mobile also accepts uuid-lowercase, which drops the UUID version and variant restriction so UUIDv5 starter channels can be subscribed. Against a uuid-v4-lowercase relay, mobile checks positive and ignore channel filters before enrollment or publication. It keeps the desired filters and rechecks relay capabilities every five minutes rather than sending a lease the relay would reject.

Do not change the relay advertisement until mobile builds that only parse uuid-v4-lowercase have drained. Those builds parse the descriptor before renewal, opt-out and revocation, so a new grammar would leave their existing leases active until expiry.

Workflow owner attribution

The relay signs workflow messages. Their first p tag, ["p", <owner>, "", "owner"], names the workflow owner so clients can show who owns the message. On an event marked ["buzz:workflow", "true"] that tag is attribution, not a mention: #p filters (live, history through the mention index, and push leases), operator listeners and the push hellthread gate all skip it, so the owner is not notified by every run of their workflow. When a workflow mentions its owner, the relay adds a plain ["p", <owner>], which notifies them like any mention. Mobile's Activity feed, unread mention priority and in-app notification rule apply the same rule.