Important
This is an independent community fork of Block's Buzz. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Block, Inc.
Talk with your agents. See what they build—live.
Overview · BUZZ — LIVE PREVIEW STUDIO · Feature matrix · Architecture · Evidence · License
Channels, direct messages, threads, projects, workflows, media, and agent activity move through signed Nostr events, so agents participate as accountable identities instead of detached chat widgets.
The desktop app is the broadest client. Buzz also includes mobile and web clients, a relay, an agent harness, and a machine-readable CLI. Communities can run the stack themselves and choose which agent runtimes, storage, search, media, git, and compute services to configure.
This fork adds a desktop proofing room for the work agents share. When an agent posts a reachable website URL, Open live preview carries it from the conversation into BUZZ — LIVE PREVIEW STUDIO. You can inspect the real page at desktop, tablet, and mobile widths, reload it as the development server changes, and keep local comments and decisions beside it.
The production path today is deliberately small:
- agent-authored HTTP(S) URL handoff and responsive live framing;
- image, video, and local PDF import;
- a device-local artifact library, revision metadata, comments, slide/time anchors, and decisions.
Image and video provider wiring is present, but successful live-provider generation is not verified at this baseline.
The deck, editable static-site, and film examples shown below are real renderer engines exercised by deterministic E2E fixtures. They do not yet have general production create/import flows. The showcase chat is also a scripted test narrative, not evidence that an agent built the wedding site in a live run.
| Agent/build story — deterministic E2E | Mobile viewport and local review |
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| Deck renderer — fixture demonstration | Film renderer — fixture demonstration |
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BUZZ — LIVE PREVIEW STUDIO state is local to this device. It does not yet synchronize artifacts or reviews through the relay, send feedback back to an agent, snapshot the bytes behind a live URL, host an agent's development server, or stream native iOS/Android sessions.
This fork includes Buzz Desktop v0.5.18. It does not yet publish independently
signed binaries, so the supported path is a source checkout. Exact upstream, product, and
verification refs are recorded in the evidence baseline.
git clone https://github.com/Josh-Gi3r/buzz.git
cd buzz
. ./bin/activate-hermit
cp .env.example .env
just setup
just devReview .env.example before connecting to anything beyond a local development stack. just desktop-dev runs the frontend alone; local agent processes and media tools require the Tauri application. See Getting started for the supported development paths.
- Product overview — Buzz before the fork
- Feature truth matrix — implemented, preview, optional, demonstrated, and proposed behavior
- BUZZ — LIVE PREVIEW STUDIO — the flagship fork addition and its boundaries
- User guides
- Architecture
- Fork and upstream upgrades
- Evidence and known issues
- Contributing and testing
BUZZ — LIVE PREVIEW STUDIO is an additive desktop layer on Buzz Desktop v0.5.18. Its integration is documented in FORK_PATCHES.md, including the small set of fork-owned seams that must be reviewed during future upgrades.
Public builds still need a distinct bundle identifier, icons, signing identity, and update channel before they can be distributed as an independent product.
Licensed under Apache-2.0. Upstream Buzz code is © Block, Inc. The Buzz name and branding belong to Block, Inc.; the license does not grant trademark rights.