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Builds on #7883 (merged). Adds an **Actions** tab to the Admin Console so relay staff can ban, time out, or delete directly through the #7883 endpoints (`POST /members/{pubkey}/ban`, `POST /members/{pubkey}/timeout`, `POST /events/{id}/delete`), with no report required. ## Design - **Frozen intent.** Review freezes the whole request (origin, relay, signer, community, action, target, reason, duration, `requestId`). Confirm and Retry resend it unchanged, so a manual retry reuses the same `requestId` and stays idempotent on the relay. The intent is cleared only on a definitive non-409 4xx (`preserveRequestIdOnError`). A 409 or a 202 pending keeps it, except `409 request_id_conflict`, which is final for that id and drops the intent so no futile Retry is offered. A 202 pending renders as a neutral notice, not an error. - **Bound to signer and relay.** The intent carries `expectedPubkey` and `expectedRelay`. Native `admin_direct_action` refuses before sending any request if either is blank or no longer matches (`assert_expected_signer` / `assert_expected_relay_scope`). The tab is keyed on pubkey + origin, so an identity or relay switch remounts it and drops any frozen intent. - **Survives tab switches.** `ActionsTab` stays mounted while the panel is open and is only hidden on other tabs, with the same pubkey + origin key, so a pending, ambiguous or in-flight action (and its `requestId`) is still there on return. - **Nothing-sent refusals.** Every native refusal before the first request leaves (malformed host, changed relay or signer, bad target or duration, the key-backup guard on Reason, a missing HTTP client, the first request build, the signing-key lookup) returns `AdminMutationError` with `notSent: true`; the tab drops the intent and offers no Retry. The request build for the retry after a 401 stays ambiguous, because the first request already went out. The changed-relay refusal says "active relay changed since the action was confirmed; nothing was sent". - **Disabled auth.** With `canMutate=false`, Review, Confirm and every field are disabled. - **Community host.** The host is prefilled from the active relay URL by `communityHostFromRelayUrl` (URL host, lowercased, default port and trailing dot stripped, matching the relay's `normalize_host`) and shown read-only as "Community: <host>" with a Change link. It follows the active community until the operator edits it; with no relay URL the input shows directly. Review derives the host from the same `getRelayWsUrl()` value it freezes into `expectedRelay`, so the two can't disagree. The host is validated natively (`validate_community_host`) and sent only as the `communityHost` query, never in the body. The body is `{requestId, reason?, expirationSecs?}`, built by the pure `direct_action_request`; only a timeout takes a duration. - **Member picker.** Ban and timeout pick the member the way `AddMemberDialog` does: `useUserSearchQuery` name search, `parsePubkeyInput` for a pasted npub or hex in any case, and a selected chip. The target is always sent as lowercase hex. Name search is a profile search on the active relay, not a member list, so it runs only when the host is the connected community; for another host the field takes npub or hex only, and the hint stays visible even with a key selected. Editing the host to a different community clears the pick and the search query, so returning to the original host doesn't bring it back; pressing Change alone keeps it. Each named result shows a short npub so same-name profiles can be told apart, the selected chip opens the full key, and the confirm step shows "Name (npub1…abcd)" plus the full npub (`PubKey variant="full"`). A search result's name is frozen for display only; a pasted key uses `useUserProfileQuery` on the active community, otherwise the short npub. Result buttons follow the disabled state. Changing the member or host drops a frozen intent. Delete keeps its hex event id (native `Hex64` route type, shared with pubkeys). A query that starts with `nsec1` or `ncryptsec1` in any case is never searched; the picker shows "That's a secret key. Never paste it here." instead. - **Errors.** `target_is_staff` and `request_id_conflict` get dedicated copy; other codes fall back to the relay message (`adminErrorCode`). An empty 404/405 from a relay without these routes reads "This relay doesn't support direct actions yet."; an uncoded 404/405 with a body keeps its own text. Success shows a toast. - **Key-backup guard.** Every admin JSON mutation body (the three direct routes and the existing report-resolve routes) passes `egress_guard::assert_no_key_backup_bytes` in `helpers.rs` before signing. The egress inventory points at that guarded boundary. - **One signer snapshot.** `admin_direct_action` reads `signing_keys()` once, checks `expectedPubkey` against it, and signs the request and any 401 retry with that same `Keys`. - **Serialized Review.** Review and its inputs lock while the relay URL resolves; a late Review cannot replace a frozen or submitting intent. - **Reason audience.** Before confirmation the tab states that the reason is delivered to the affected user, and for channel deletes posted publicly in the room tombstone (same copy as the Reports tab). Confirmation shows the frozen reason. ## Fix → test → mutation | Fix | Test | Mutation that turns it red | |---|---|---| | Manual retry reuses `requestId` | `actions-retry` | mint a new id per attempt | | Intent preserved across retryable outcomes | `actions-retry`, `actions-errors` | always clear the frozen intent | | Confirmation tied to signer + relay | Rust `direct_action_refuses_a_changed_signer_or_relay` | skip the signer check | | Identity/origin change drops intent | `actions-identity` | drop the tab key | | Disabled auth keeps Submit off | `actions-disabled-auth` | remove the `canMutate` gate | | Key-backup bytes never leave (`ncryptsec1…` / `NCRYPTSEC1…`, zero requests; ordinary reason sends) | Rust `direct_action_refuses_key_backup_reason_before_any_request` | remove the guard call → panics (request sent) | | Checked signer is the signing key | Rust `direct_action_signs_only_with_the_validated_snapshot` (identity swapped after the signer snapshot is taken, before validation) | re-read `signing_keys()` for signing → signed with the swapped key | | Late Review cannot replace the intent | `actions-review-race` (Review, Review, Confirm ambiguous, Retry → one `requestId`) | drop the Review lock | | Pending is a neutral notice | `actions-pending-neutral` | store pending in the error state → `pending notice must render` | | `request_id_conflict` offers no Retry | `actions-request-id-conflict` | keep the intent on every 409 → `request_id_conflict`, `no Retry for a spent request id` | | Reason audience copy + frozen reason | `actions-audience` | drop the audience copy; drop the frozen reason | | Host prefilled read-only, Change reveals the input | `actions-host-prefill` | drop the prefill → `host must be prefilled from the active relay` | | Name result sent as hex and named on confirm | `actions-member-search` | — | | npub and uppercase hex sent as lowercase hex | `actions-member-keys` | drop the direct key result → `no direct result for npub1…` | | Another community turns name search off with a hint | `actions-foreign-host` | — | | A host change clears the pick, even after returning to the first host; hint stays with a key selected | `actions-host-change-drops-member` | hide the pick by host instead of clearing it → `returning to the first host must not restore the old pick` | | Same-name results differ by key; confirm shows the chosen full npub and sends that key | `actions-same-name` | drop the full npub from confirm → `confirm must show the full npub` | | Results can't be selected once auth is disabled | `actions-results-disabled` | — | | Secret key never reaches search, warning shown | `actions-secret-key` | remove the check → `a secret key reached search_users` | | Pending action survives a tab round-trip, Retry reuses `requestId` | `actions-tab-roundtrip-pending` | render the tab conditionally → `pending notice survives` | | Ambiguous failure survives a tab round-trip | `actions-tab-roundtrip-ambiguous` | render conditionally → fails | | In-flight failure on another tab shows on return | `actions-tab-roundtrip-inflight` | render conditionally → fails | | Pre-send refusal drops the intent, no Retry | `actions-not-sent`, Rust `direct_action_marks_a_pre_send_refusal_not_sent` | ignore `notSent` → `intent dropped; no Retry` | | Key-backup refusal is nothing-sent; Review editable again | Rust `direct_action_refuses_key_backup_reason_before_any_request`, `actions-backup-reason-not-sent` | drop `not_sent` on the guard → panics at the `notSent` assert; stub `notSent: false` → `no Retry after a pre-send refusal` | | Only an empty 404/405 reads as an old relay | `actions-old-relay` | drop the empty-body condition → `404 admin API error: Not Found` | --------- Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@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
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.