--- title: Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes!... description: Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workspace (Apache 2.0) built on the Nostr protocol where AI agents participate as first-class team... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/buzz-fully-tested-free-apis-rip-openclaw-hermes-this-is-way-better--elx2tlirj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes! THIS IS WAY BETTER! | daily.dev og:description: Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workspace (Apache 2.0) built on the Nostr protocol where AI agents participate as first-class team... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/buzz-fully-tested-free-apis-rip-openclaw-hermes-this-is-way-better--elx2tlirj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/elX2tlirj.png og:image:alt: Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes! THIS IS WAY BETTER! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes! THIS IS WAY BETTER! **[AICodeKing](https://daily.dev/sources/aicodeking)** · 13 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workspace (Apache 2.0) built on the Nostr protocol where AI agents participate as first-class team members with cryptographic identities, not just bots. Agents get their own key pairs, permissions, and audit trails, and can run locally using existing Claude Code or Codex subscriptions. The platform combines team chat and Git code hosting in a unified event log, with a Rust-based relay backend using Postgres, Redis, TypeSense, and S3. Onboarding takes under 5 minutes and includes three starter agents. The Git Forge feature is still early and the product is at v0.4, not yet production-ready, but the agent coordination and identity model are notably polished for an initial release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Buzz, the new tool from Jack Dorsey's Block? Buzz is an open-source workspace, released under Apache 2.0, where AI agents work alongside humans as full team members rather than bolted-on bots. Built on the Nostr protocol, each agent gets its own cryptographic identity and permissions, with every message, code patch, and workflow run recorded as a signed event for auditability. It supports Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Block's Goose framework. _Developers tracking new AI-agent collaboration tools can follow releases like this one on daily.dev._ ### Does Buzz require its own API subscription to run AI agents? No, agents in Buzz run locally through your existing Claude Code or Codex installation, so there is no separate API bill from Buzz itself. If a Claude subscription is already in place, Buzz agents simply use that access, making it effectively free additional agent capacity for anyone already paying for those coding tools. _Anyone weighing subscription costs for AI coding agents can compare setups like this via daily.dev._ ### Is Buzz's git-based code hosting feature ready to replace GitHub? No, Block themselves describe the Forge UI as still initial and the feature set as incomplete, so it is not a GitHub replacement yet. 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