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Buzz is a free, open-source collaboration workspace from Block where humans and AI agents participate in the same channels, threads, projects, code activity, workflows, search, and audit history. Its clearest differentiator is that an agent is treated as a workspace member with its own cryptographic identity and channel membership, not as a hidden bot attached to one person's chat. Buzz is built on the Nostr protocol, so messages and other workspace events are signed and tied to portable public-key identities. Teams can connect compatible agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, and goose through the Agent Client Protocol, bring another ACP-compatible harness, or build agents around Buzz's CLI and APIs. The current product includes a desktop app, channels, threads, direct messages, canvases, media, search, an audit log, Git events, Git hosting, and YAML workflows triggered by messages, reactions, schedules, or webhooks. Block also offers a hosted route for creating a community, while the Apache-2.0 source can be deployed on infrastructure a team controls. Buzz is currently free and has no paid tier, according to its terms. That does not make the complete agent stack cost-free: connected model plans, API calls, compute, storage, databases, object storage, and operational support may still create costs. Buzz is also a new, pre-1.0 project. Mobile clients, workflow approval gates, huddles, and other parts of the wider vision are still being developed, so it should be evaluated as fast-moving collaboration infrastructure rather than a finished replacement for every Slack, GitHub, and automation workflow.
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