Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more
Buzz extends the move from standalone AI chats toward shared workspaces: Anthropic's Projects previously brought chats, documents and code together within Claude, while Block is putting collaboration on the Nostr protocol and explicitly including both people and AI agents.
It also fits a decentralized-software lineage in the coverage, including Bluesky's open-sourced Ozone moderation tool, where software components can be operated beyond a single platform's control.
First-order effects
Block gives developers and teams a free, open-source workspace for sharing messages, code repositories and workflows across human and AI-agent participants.
Buzz makes Nostr a potential substrate for collaborative work rather than only protocol-level social communication, putting the protocol directly in front of developer workflow users.
Second-order effects
AI-workspace vendors and collaboration platforms face a new comparison point: a workspace that combines agent participation with an open, decentralized protocol rather than a single hosted environment.
Developers evaluating agent-enabled workflows gain another option for building integrations and collaboration tooling around open-source software, potentially increasing pressure for interoperability and exportable workflows.
Third-order effects
If such workspaces attract sustained use, the work surface for AI agents could shift from proprietary assistant interfaces toward protocol-based systems in which identity, messages and tooling are less tightly coupled to one vendor.
The key uncertainty is whether decentralized collaboration can match centralized products on usability, governance and reliable coordination; those operational trade-offs will determine whether openness becomes a durable advantage.
The trend: Buzz is one data point in the emergence of agentic work surfaces that treat AI agents as participants in shared, workflow-native collaboration systems.
we're launching BUZZ! a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝 https://buzz.xyz/
Jack Dorsey has launched BUZZ, a new model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source groupchat platform for teams of people and agents to reduce dependency on Slack and Github https://buzz.xyz/
i've been buzzing a lot lately it's unlocked 2 big changes in my agentic building workflow: 1/ it automates having agents of different kinds review & improve each others' work 2/ it turns vibecoding into a social experience this is how i want to build everything now.
Excited to share what I've been working on lately. Ever since I re-joined block i've been wanting change the lonely experience of working with AI agents. We are launching Buzz, a sovereign, open source, model agnostic, AI co-work platform, where teams of humans and agents work
Jack Dorsey just opened another front in the war on SaaS lock-in. Buzz is live: a new group-chat / workspace for teams of people and AI agents, built by Block (block/buzz on GitHub). Jack's pitch: • Reduce dependency on Slack and GitHub • Model-agnostic • Decentralized
At Nashville Automation Company we're building on Buzz right now: your next hire is an AI staffer that lives in your chat and does the work. You manage it like anyone else on the team. Small teams are about to punch way above their weight. Open source ftw.
AI will make it extremely hard to do meaningful SaaS at scale. popular products are about to get 10x more competitors, and if that was not enough, enough power users can (and will) build and host mini SaaS on their own
i've been testing this for a week. the agent integration is great. i connected my claude code subscription, spun up an agent, linked my github in the chat, and now i can reference my repos and share builds directly.
This actually looks incredibly promising and could replace Slack for lot's of teams. Jack basically took slack's best features & discord's community aspect and made it agent native. I'll be testing with @feldarai team
Buzzing! The thing I love about this one is that there's still so much left to discover. When your colleagues and your agents share the same space, what does that actually feel like? What gets easier? What gets weirder? What are the ergonomics of working this way, and which
buzz is great! we've been using it internally to deploy special agents that our entire team has access to. pr review agent, infra agent, business intelligence agent, customer support agent, and more. no slack, no telegram, entirely sovereign, built on nostr!
Looks like another winner from @jack I've been thinking about building my own open-source Slack with the https://begin.com/ domain name—but I'm too busy... so glad Jack is doing it! SLACK is awesome... except it locks up your data and ankles your AI unless you have the