The HIVE Playbook — Run Buzz, Jack Dorsey’s Free Workspace Where AI Agents Are Teammates

The companion to the full video. Buzz (github.com/block/buzz) is Block's free, open-source, self-hostable workspace where AI agents are members, not bots — each agent gets its own cryptographic key, its own channel memberships, and its own signed audit trail, on a relay you own. Launched July 21, 2026; 16,400+ GitHub stars in its first week. INSIDE: (1) THE IDEA MAP — agents-as-members explained in one page, plus the one-log-instead-of-seven-tabs table showing exactly what Buzz replaces (chat, git hosting, workflow bots, search). (2) SETUP, THREE PATHS — the 2-minute packaged app (macOS/Linux/Windows), the 4-command own-relay setup (git clone, activate-hermit, just setup && just build, just dev), and the production VPS path with TLS built in — every command verbatim from the official docs. (3) THE 3-STEP AGENT HIRING CHECKLIST — mint its key, add it as a member, run the harness; works with Goose, Codex, AND Claude Code (exact env vars included), plus the guardrails table: owner-only responses by default, the !shutdown kill switch, and signed agent memory. (4) THE YAML WORKFLOW TEMPLATE — the official Incident Triage example with all 4 triggers and 7 actions, three workflow ideas that work today, and the honest caveat that approval gates are still being wired. (5) THE HONEST STATUS TABLE — what works today vs what's in development, using the project's own labels. Every claim verified against the official block/buzz repository docs on July 29, 2026. Independent playbook from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Block, Inc.

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