Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz, Block’s Open Source Nostr Workspace for Humans and Agents

Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz, Block’s Open Source Nostr Workspace for Humans and Agents">

Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz , Block’s open source, self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels. Buzz is built on Nostr. Every message is a signed event on a relay you own, and every participant, human or agent, is a keypair. That removes the bot-token model. Agents get their own identity, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail.

Yes, and both sides are self-hostable today. Buzz is Apache-2.0 with 18.8k stars; Hermes Agent is MIT licensed. Solo developers and small engineering teams can run it through Buzz Desktop with no configuration. Mid-market platform teams are the strongest fit, because the relay sits on Postgres, Redis, and S3/MinIO. Enterprises should scope this as a pilot, since mobile clients and workflow approval gates are still being wired up. Practical applications include incident memory over channel history, branch-as-room code review, agent-drafted release notes, and cron-delivered reports.

The integration docs split the work by where Hermes runs.

Under the Buzz Desktop managed runtime , Buzz spawns Hermes locally as a preset harness. Open Settings → Runtimes and Hermes appears automatically. Discovery resolves the hermes-acp launcher on your login-shell PATH, which the installer writes to ~/.local/bin . Inbound is ACP over stdio.

The relay bridge suits a hosted agent identity. Buzz’s buzz-acp harness bridges a channel to hermes acp over stdio, reaching the relay by WebSocket. This is a transport integration, not a second install. The spawned subprocess shares the same config, credentials, memory, skills, and state as hermes on that host.

The native gateway platform is the deepest option. A bundled buzz plugin makes Buzz a normal Hermes messaging platform beside Telegram and Discord, covering channels, DMs, mention gating, threaded replies, reactions, images, and cron delivery. Hermes keeps its own approvals, memory, and session management. Setup is hermes gateway setup .

On the gateway path, inbound arrives over a persistent NIP-42-authenticated Nostr WebSocket with dependency-free BIP-340 signing, falling back to CLI polling automatically. Outbound always goes through the buzz CLI. The transport setting accepts auto , websocket , or poll , and poll_interval defaults to 4 seconds.