Hermes Agent now works with Buzz, Block’s self‑hosted workspace built on Nostr. Every participant—human or AI—gets its own keypair, so agents have a real identity, channel memberships, and an audit trail without bot tokens. This solves the problem of fragmented agent access and missing accountability for teams that need traceable AI interactions.
Deployment is straightforward. Buzz Desktop lets solo developers run Hermes locally with no setup—just enable the preset runtime. Mid‑market teams can host their own relay on Postgres, Redis, and S3/MinIO and use the relay bridge to connect a hosted agent identity over stdio. Enterprises can start a pilot with the native gateway plugin, which makes Buzz a first‑class Hermes platform alongside Telegram and Discord while keeping Hermes’ memory, skills, approvals, cron, and sessions intact.
Three ways to connect: (1) Buzz Desktop managed runtime where Buzz spawns Hermes locally and talks via ACP over stdio; (2) relay bridge where the buzz‑acp harness links a channel to hermes acp over WebSocket, sharing the same config and state as a local Hermes install; (3) native gateway plugin that integrates Buzz as a Hermes messaging platform, supporting channels, DMs, mentions, threads, reactions, images, and cron delivery.
Transport defaults use a persistent NIP‑42‑authenticated Nostr WebSocket with BIP‑340 signing, falling back to CLI polling every four seconds. Outbound messages go through the buzz CLI. Recommended settings keep the agent private: require_mention true, allow‑list only, and suppress tool logs and interim messages. Events are deduped by ID and the agent’s own posts are filtered out.
Key takeaways: Hermes connects via Desktop runtime, relay bridge, or native gateway; the gateway preserves Hermes memory, skills, approvals, cron, and sessions; inbound uses Nostr WebSocket with polling fallback; defaults are private with mention gating, allow‑list, and muted tool logs; Buzz Desktop auto‑grants tool permissions, so limit agents to owner‑only use.
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