why we're buzzing

Block has released Buzz, an open source workspace that puts people, agents, conversations, and code on the same level behind one cryptographic identity system, with the aim of reducing its dependence on Slack and GitHub. The article says the main problem Buzz addresses is context, since work spread across chat, code hosting, CI, and agent tools loses information at each seam. Buzz stores every message, patch, review, workflow step, and approval as a signed event on a relay that users host themselves, and agents can search history, send patches, review code, and run workflows as equal members. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0, built on Nostr, and supports harnesses for goose, codex, and claude code. Channels, threads, DMs, canvases, search, the audit log, and the desktop app work today, while full git hosting, mobile, and push are still in progress.