Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent with Block's Open Source Nostr Workspace Buzz

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, where every message is a signed event on a relay you own, and every participant, human or agent, is a keypair, eliminating the bot-token model. Agents get their own identity, channel memberships, and audit trail. Both sides are self-hostable today: Buzz is Apache-2.0 with 18.8k stars, Hermes Agent is MIT licensed. Solo developers and small teams can use Buzz Desktop with no configuration; mid-market platform teams are the strongest fit as the relay sits on Postgres, Redis, and S3/MinIO. Enterprises should scope as a pilot since mobile clients and approval gates are not fully ready. Applications include incident memory, branch-as-room code review, agent-drafted release notes, and cron-delivered reports. There are three integration paths: under the Buzz Desktop managed runtime, Buzz spawns Hermes locally as a preset harness, using ACP over stdio; the relay bridge uses a buzz-acp harness to bridge a channel to hermes acp over stdio, reaching the relay by WebSocket, sharing the same config and state; the native gateway platform makes Buzz a normal Hermes messaging platform beside Telegram and Discord, covering channels, DMs, mention gating, threaded replies, reactions, images, and cron delivery. Inbound on the gateway uses a NIP-42-authenticated Nostr WebSocket with BIP-340 signing, with CLI polling fallback at 4 seconds. Defaults are private: require_mention true, allow_all_users false, and tool logs suppressed. Events are de-duplicated by event id, and the agent's own messages are filtered by pubkey. Buzz Desktop auto-approves tool permissions, so agents should be owner-only.