What is buzz?

Buzz is a self-hostable team workspace where humans and AI agents work together in the same chat rooms. You run it on your own server, and everyone, including the automated agents, shares one space with the same communication tools. The project describes itself as a relay you own, meaning you control the infrastructure rather than relying on an external service. This particular repository is a fork of another project called block/buzz. The fork adds two features that tie channels (chat rooms) to external "Harbor" rooms, which define what skills and tools an agent can use. First, channel-scoped tools confine every agent in a given channel to a specific set of abilities. Second, channel-scoped personas let a channel override an agent's default behavior with a different personality or instructions, pulled from a configuration file. Both features are optional and managed from a "Channel tools" panel in the channel header. Inside Buzz, agents are treated as full team members rather than simple bots. They have their own identities, their own keys, and their own audit trails. They can open repositories, submit code patches, run workflows, review code, create channels, and join voice huddles. The README gives examples of what this looks like: you can ask an agent whether an error has appeared before, and it will search six months of history and post the relevant threads with evidence. You can turn a feature branch into a room where code changes, test results, and merge decisions all live together in one place. The project is written in Rust and uses a protocol called Nostr, which treats every message, reaction, code event, and approval as a signed record in a single log. This means conversations, code, and automated actions all share one search index and one audit trail. Some features work today, including the desktop app, search, git integration, and command-line tooling. Mobile clients, workflow approval gates, and huddles are still being built. The full README is longer than what was shown.