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Episode 94 · July 30, 2026 · 10:09

Agent OS: Building Sites + Obsidian + Opus 5 Slow?

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So, Jack Dorsey just released Buzz, and this is a new app that is basically free to use, kind of looks and feels like Slack, but it's AI powered, and you can have multiple employees in there for free. In fact, you can build your own teams of AI agents ready to go whenever you want to. And the cool thing about all of this is it runs on either Codec CLI or Cloud Code CLI. So, whichever subscription you already have, you can plug into the system, and then you don't even need to use APIs.

It doesn't cost you anything extra if you've already got those subscriptions, and you can just go from there. So, let me show you an example here. We actually created this channel, as you can see, and basically what we've done is we have tagged in the agent, and we said, use codecs to attribute it to this, as it's an image generation task. We gave it a task that we typically use for generating images, gave it an example as well, and then we added fizz, and you can see here that it basically pulls from our existing images, and we fed it as context.

Then it looked, okay, what can we improve in there? So, it's like, okay, here's what's hurting the current images, why it's not very good. Then it's also given us multiple different prompts that we can use to generate better versions, how to upscale it to a HQ. It's like, which directions do you want to use?

And also, do you want me to just spin it up? And so, I said, yeah, go ahead, create the thumbnails. It gave me the URLs originally hosted on the website, which I didn't really want to use, and then instead what it did is, I said, show the images here in the chat. It's basically like talking to a person on Slack, except you're talking to an AI agent, and it can actually do stuff.

So, if we have a look here, these are the new thumbnails it's created based on the original, and it's basically just generated those images based on the prompt that we gave it. And that's just one tiny little section. Now, the cool thing about all of this is that you can have different channels for different tasks that you work on, right? So, if you reverse engineer, okay, where am I spending my time?

And then how can I automate that? Well, you can get some pretty good and useful workflows that you can just come back to, and it's just sitting there ready to go whenever you want to. So, we've got Buzz over here ready whenever we need it. Now, if you're wondering how to get access to this and how to get it, so you can get it at buzz.xyz.

It's a new app that came from Jack Dorsey and his team, Block, and it's right in the early stages. So, this literally just launched a few days ago, but basically it's a new native workspace. Now, the other benefit of this is that not only do you have agent teams and agent workflows, you can kind of use like a free version of Slack, which is awesome itself. I stopped using Slack because it's pretty expensive, but then also we can have humans added to the team.

So, let's say, for example, you have a workflow where you need your team to quality control it, or you need your team to operate that workflow for you every day. Well, you could create like a custom GPT, but it's not quite right and you can't see what they've done. You could, for example, give them access to Hermes agent, but then if you're hosting it locally, well, they get access to your computer as well. That is not great.

But if you do this instead, what it can actually do is it can use the full power of all the systems you've built, and actually what it comes pre-plugged in with is any sort of skills that you've actually added to Cloud Code before. So, let's say, for example, we have trained Cloud Code on how to post WordPress for us, and we plug in Cloud Code into Buzz. Well, what we can say here is like, hey, come up with some content ideas around OpenQL for today. And then it comes up with some content ideas, like you see, it knows that we use Substack, it knows that we use X, it knows that we do a lot of SEO, because it's got the context from Cloud Code plugged in as soon as you start using Buzz.

So, it takes the previous context and all the hours you spent training Cloud Code previously, and then it uses that to give you better outputs inside Buzz. So, for example, here, it's saying, okay, I'm gonna write the complete guide now, here we go. And then it's actually posted it to WordPress for us. Now, what I actually said from there was make it live, so make it live in WordPress.

And then if we open this up, it actually created the full blog post for us, fully formatted in the way that I asked Cloud Code to learn how to do it, since I added some nice key takeaways here, it's embedded a nice case study inside the article, it's all pretty useful, and it's generated like a really nicely formatted blog straight to our website. We didn't have to log into WordPress or anything like that. It's just ready to go. So, the great thing about this is we can give it skills, we can use skills already given to Cloud, it understands all the context previously from our conversations in Cloud Codex, it doesn't cost us anything extra to use the CLI, and then for every single workflow or automation or system that you're working in day-to-day, you can plug it in as a separate channel.

So, you just create a new channel like this, or you can browse the existing ones. You can also delete any channels you don't find useful, so you might find yourself setting one up and then be like, actually, not that great, let's not use that. And then you've got all your agents over here, so you can actually create a new team of agents, and you can import a team snapshot, or what you can do is you can create just a fully custom-trained agent from scratch. So, there you would add a profile picture, then you can add the agent name, add the agent instructions, and you can either choose to use the harness defaults or customize for this agent.

So, what you could actually have is you can have Codex and Cloud working together inside Buzz, which is super useful as well. And also, they have another agent that's open source called Goose, and you can plug in Goose into Buzz as well. That's a free open source agent you can plug in. So, you can use different models in combination, and you can orchestrate agents using yourself or your team to handle that for you.

What you could also do, I think, is you could actually create a new agent here, select which model you want to use. So, let's say, for example, using Codex, we could use GPT 5.6 Sol, and then you could have, for example, GPT 5.6 Sol orchestrate all your other agents inside there as well. That's something that I'm thinking about setting up soon as well. So, for example, like the General tab, that is not very useful for me, so I can just delete that.

We can also delete the Welcome section here, not very useful. A lot of the default ones, I just, like, there's absolutely no point having them there. You can delete all those. And then we have, for example, this workflow ready to go whenever we need it.

We have the SEO Keyword section whenever we need it. We've also got the content ideas ready to go as well. So, we can actually rename that and call that blog creation. So, let's add it there.

And now, any time I need to create a blog for SEO, we've got it ready to go. Also, another example that we actually used over here was Ascent based on my Obsidian Vault locally. So, you can actually plug in your Obsidian Vault locally, which is just a memory system that you store locally to give your agents pre-trained data and everything that you have, for example, your goals, your vision, everything else. And you can say, okay, based on my Obsidian Vault locally and what you know about me, come up with some new SEO keywords for my AI automation website.

And so, what it actually did is it said, okay, Julian, mining your Obsidian Vault now and looking through your search console, which is something I didn't even think it was gonna do, but that is an API key I've already given to Claude and I've custom trained Claude on how to look through my Google search console data and then analyze what the best keyword. So, I didn't even ask it to do that, but it proactively found those. And there's like, here's a keyword rundown for your website. And this is actually one of our websites.

It's not like hallucinating or something like that. It said, okay, here's your fastest wins and what you could go for. And it actually looks for our Google search console data. And then over here, it actually gave us a bunch of new ideas so we could actually target for SEO.

And then what you can do from there is you can take one of those keywords, go back to the Vault creation section, tag in, for example, Fizz, and say, create a new blog post about this and publish it. And now it's gonna start working in real time. It just seems really, really easy to do. You could continue this with Hermes or OpenClaude, but the problem with that is, number one, you can't really plug in Claude.

Like, Claude has stopped people from using the CLI with Hermes, which is not ideal. And number two, it's not quite as easy to use as it is. Like, this seems really effortless to do. Like, I've only spent maybe about one hour in total using Buzz, but we can easily set up these workflows, get everything working in the background.

And also, if you're using something like Hermes or OpenClaude, unless you have your Obsidian Vault ready to go, it doesn't really have context on you. But if you've been using Codex or Claude and then you plug, well, then it's pre-trained on everything about you and it understands everything about you. And you can see, for example, here, it's ready to go. Plus also, this can access everything locally to you.

And if you want to add your team, we can actually go to invites inside our settings, right? So if you go to your profile in the bottom left here, click on settings, go to invites, invite to community, and then you can share this link and anyone can join your community with that link. So if you wanted to share that with your team, you can easily add people here. Now, also you'll see this compute section, which is quite interesting.

So what this can actually do is allow other people to run their agents here as well. So for example, if you had a bunch of friends, you're all using AI agents and they have pre-trained custom workflows, they could actually add their own agents to this workspace and then your whole team and all of their agents can join as well. Additionally, you can see here, we can add more models. So for example, we could add Quaint 3 or DeepSea, Crane, Flambats, Wealthywoods, and we can limit the amount of VRAM that it uses if you're using like local models.

There's some other interesting stuff here as well. So you can actually turn on experiments. So like there's agent-managed profiles, forum channels, you've got an activity theme that you can actually add over here and you can switch any of these on. And then you can pair this with a mobile device.

So there's so many cool things you can do with this. I think that if we have a look here, yeah, we've got the polls here, so we can see what our agents are working on and they'll just create notes as we go along. We can manage our agents, we can delete or share any of them as well. So what this actually means is like any agents that you create with Buzz, you can share with people as well.

It's actually a useful open-source skill. I can see why it's doing so well. You can also see when any workflows are active. So if we go to the blog creation section here, you can see that we've got three minutes left on that.

So thanks so much for watching. That is how to use Buzz, a new free open-source project. It looks really cool, kind of like a Slack call. Way easier to use than most of the open-source agents out there.

If you want to get more training on this stuff, we've got a full guide and masterclass inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Inside the community, you can ask questions. We've got people online 24-7, so you can get help as well whenever you need to. Inside the classroom, you get access to all of our best trainings and new lessons.

You can get our full agent operating system as well. So if you want all your agents to work together and be orchestrated, we've got a full system for that here. We've got a full masterclass on Buzz over there, and we have new trainings all the time. Inside the calendar, you can drop a week of coaching calls, ask questions, share your screen, et cetera.

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