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Pinky, an AI agent, is updating this PR on Wes's behalf. ## Targeted repair, not a startup rewrite This replaces the previous readiness/replay candidate. Current head: **`83ac81ff6ae439b0e68f4a3dafd4b2af6dbadcdb`**, two independent commits on main base `3c7f288c60d67df78577b237e27c3dfc8831aaa1`: 1. **`0b6681de2` — keep quota backoff on its transport.** HTTP 429s retain native HTTP backoff without arming the renderer WebSocket gate. WebSocket quota/concurrency CLOSED retains its retry deadline without damping HTTP's separate quota. The explicit `rate-limited: shared admission unavailable` signal still damps HTTP too. Reuse existing all-channel live streams for Home mention invalidation instead of a second per-channel mention subscription; retain kind, recipient, self, membership, replay-deduplication, notification and unread boundaries. 2. **`83ac81ff6` — reuse complete membership rosters within each channel fetch.** Discovery already returns full paginated rosters. Retain those results and request only uncovered directory/pending-owner channel IDs. Skip empty fallback filters and preserve covered counts/pubkeys if that tolerant fallback fails. The next fetch reads current membership again; there is no persistent cache or new invalidation state. No send-route, AUTH-readiness, replay-ordering, scheduler, pacing, relay policy, dependency, or authorization changes. Refresh triggers and activity batching stay unchanged. Independent tracing did not establish a safe-to-delete duplicate normal-startup refresh; recovery invalidations at different replay stages are not interchangeable. **Size:** 18 files, +1,066/-350 overall; nine production paths +76/-205 (**129 fewer production lines**). The roster follow-up itself touches only `fetch.rs` (+31/-14) and its new 378-line regression file. Test bulk is not new startup machinery. ## Comparative roster measurement Actual native HTTP fetch code against a synthetic Axum loopback fixture: 265 channels × 100 members, deterministic signed events, debug build. Seven iterations per condition; medians below exclude the first warm-up. Baseline is `0b6681de2` production fetch, candidate is `83ac81ff6` production fetch, with the same temporary benchmark harness. | Measure | Baseline | Candidate | | --- | ---: | ---: | | HTTP reads per fetch | 7 | 6 | | JSON response-body bytes per fetch | 4,803,136 | 2,453,380 | | Median, no artificial request delay | 262.9 ms | 149.3 ms | | Median, 25 ms artificial delay per request | 376.7 ms | 282.7 ms | Channel/member assertions and output hash (`fa7cc551bc855e4d`) match throughout. This removes **one batched roster request**, not 265 requests. The measured ~43%/~25% reductions describe this large-roster synthetic fixture, **not production startup latency**. Activity requests run concurrently with roster enrichment, so real savings vary. Counts now use the discovery snapshot rather than a later reread within that same non-atomic fetch. ## Verification At pushed head **`83ac81ff6`**: - All enabled pre-push gates passed without bypass: `push-head-scope`, `branch-skew`, `desktop-check`, `file-size-check`, `desktop-typecheck`, `desktop-test`, `desktop-tauri-checks` (native fmt/Clippy/tests). - Full Desktop frontend suite: **6,457 passed**, zero failures; separate tooling suite: **10 passed**. - Full native Desktop workspace: **3,276 passed**, zero failures, 20 ignored, across unit/integration/doc bins. The main native lib accounts for 3,175 passed / 19 ignored; this is not 3,276 lib tests. - `pnpm build` passed the protected-feature artifact matrix; `pnpm build:e2e` also passed. Existing chunk-size/dynamic-import warnings remain. No full repository `just ci` run locally. - **130 selected headless mock-bridge smoke cases passed across two runs**: messaging, reconnect, reconnect affordances, inbox live updates, sidebar snapshots, send-channel binding, boot splash. The first invocation hit the shell's 300-second limit after 117 passes and no failures; all remaining 13 passed in a separate invocation. This is not a claim the interrupted invocation completed. - Six new tests invoke production `fetch_channels` through the real native HTTP client and cover 265/501-channel pagination (including same-timestamp continuation), exact requests, complete/deduplicated rosters, directory/pending fallback, hidden DMs, repeated membership/identity/relay changes, empty lists and errors. - Falsification in an isolated source copy: restoring the redundant baseline fetch fails four roster regressions; removing missing-roster fallback fails two. Restored candidate passes all six. Earlier transport mutations fail HTTP→WS coupling, WS→HTTP coupling, omitted shared-outage damping and duplicate-mention regressions. No mutation was applied to the committed worktree. - Brain's independent static reviews found no blockers in the transport repair or immutable roster patch. Source tracing confirms relay discovery serializes complete rosters, not projected matching p-tags. This was source review, not independent test execution or approval. ### Hosted CI [CI run 34185670504](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/34185670504) **completed successfully** for this head. GitHub checked out merge ref `25bcf09627e129887481d4441a1af3c6cb0af1ff`; its Git tree is identical to `83ac81ff6` (`49a01f3c2ebf4e547bbe3cd31406f984ac6cefe8`), verified through the GitHub Git API. The final PR rollup has 33 successful checks and 28 skipped, with none failing or pending. - Desktop Core passed frontend/native suites and compiled-feature verification. Windows Rust tests, Windows Desktop build, macOS `.app`/`.dmg` build, all four smoke shards and both relay-backed E2E job shards passed, as did Rust lint, DCO, Semgrep and zizmor. - Browser job totals: **1,620 passed, 13 flaky cases passing automatic retry #1, five skipped, zero terminal failures**. Smoke accounts for 1,389 passed / 12 flaky / three skipped; integration jobs report 231 passed / one flaky / two skipped. No manual CI reruns or source changes to obtain green. - The retries cover channel-browser, empty-edit, huddle menu, runtime-install, overscroll, onboarding avatar, video attachment and workflow UI assertions. They are disclosed, not collectively declared unrelated. The video case reaches the changed real TS all-channel hook despite mocking native I/O: independent tracing found no regression mechanism or blocker, but the missing second-video player remains **unexplained**, and an indirect timing effect is not excluded. The self-authored, unmentioned event cannot use either the new mention branch or the removed old mention handler as a delivery path. A passing retry does not diagnose its cause. - The separate “Desktop Release Candidate” check skipped its validation step; it is not additional release validation. Codex security review was skipped, not passed. ## Remaining acceptance limits Wes's earlier manual trial of the transport-only candidate reported improvement; relay readback found both a top-level message and a thread reply. That was not a fingerprinted or timed trial of the new roster commit. The remaining few-second top-level send wait is **unattributed**, and this PR does not claim to resolve every startup delay. No visible app launch, relaunch, laptop input automation, or production test messages during this follow-up. Local native tests use fixtures; browser suites do not run the Tauri backend. CI building an app does not validate bundled macOS alerts or inactive-channel notification delivery. Those bundled real-workflow checks remain outstanding. No visual UI changes or screenshots; no approval or merge performed. Originating conversation: buzz://message?channel=5b130804-d759-40ad-a564-d64cc907fa8e&id=cb432417e290e06a1842639cfe0268f9d43d186defbcb59260930d129a26af83 --------- Signed-off-by: Pinky <5f5ab050ec58ae208332edd544ebf705221e24c1b86d82a6ca07038a7a8f6ac9@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Pinky <5f5ab050ec58ae208332edd544ebf705221e24c1b86d82a6ca07038a7a8f6ac9@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.