Jack Dorsey’s Buzz is INSANE (FREE!)

Today we're going to be testing Buzz from Jack Dorsey. So this is a new open source project. You can see it right here and it's built on something called Nostra. So it's kind of like a way to have your own version of Slack.

And we're going to be testing this out, see how it performs. So you can chat with teammates, specialized agents in one shared place. You can get access at buzz.xyz and you can either get the app or you can open up the GitHub repo, which you can see right here. So to get started, we'll need Docker and Hermit.

We can either set this up manually or what I prefer to do is actually just run it through Claude. So let's go into Claude desk and we'll say set this up. They're just going to switch to Opus five there. Whilst it's setting up, let's talk through what are the benefits, how does it work, et cetera.

So what you can see here is it kind of looks like Slack. You've got like these channels, like design, engineering, whatever you want. And then you can tag in different agents to get stuff done. So I suppose you can give each one a specialty.

Then you can spin up a room as well. It also looks like you can comment on different files and that sort of thing. So you could comment on a video that's shared via Buzz. There's a desktop app for it as well.

So let's try the desktop app whilst we're setting up the open source project. You can download that here. Let's install it and then we can open up. We can either choose to use Claude Code or Codex.

So I'm going to go with Claude Code. You can install two. You can install both of them as well if you wanted to. So you can have GPT 5.6 working with Claude Code.

That could actually be pretty cool. Let's do both. So the good thing it looks like as well is that you don't have to use an API key for this, so you can either use Claude Code or you can use Codex using your existing subscriptions and then just go straight into it. One of the best things about this is probably that you can give access to AI with your team, so your team can use the AI that you set up as well, which is kind of difficult with Hermes or OpenClaw.

This might make it easier, but let's test it out, see how it goes. It will just ask you to sign in. So you can see here Claude Code is ready, but for Codex you have to sign in. Those are both ready now.

Took a couple of minutes. Then you can select your default. So I'm going to go with Claude Code as the default harness to use. And from here, we can either join a community, create a community, or if we already have one, we can go with that.

So I'm just going to create a new one. Let's sign in here. You just got to create a code, which from here, we just need to set up the community that we'll interact with our AI agents with. We're going to create a username, go with Fizz, got the team ready to go.

Squad loaded up and here it is. So it really does look like Slack, doesn't it? This is crazy. Let's have a look.

So if we create a new channel here and we're just going to go with something basic, for example, let's see what we could create or what we've joined. All right, search or create a channel. Let's create a channel here and we'll call this content-ideas. You can switch between the channel type.

So if it's ongoing or temporary and whether it's publicly available or private. So let's just go with public for now, create the channel. There we go. All right.

So we can now invite our team to it. If we want to, we can just add people or we can click on create an agent and we can choose where we want to select like our existing agents here, Fizz, Honey or Bumble, or we can create a new agent and we can give it like a custom purpose. So let's just try the default now. We'll add all three like so.

Let's try this out. So if we tag in Fizz and we say, hey, come up with some content-ideas around OpenClaw for today. Then you can see it marks the notification. It's got the speech balloon.

It kind of is, it's a little bit like OpenClaw or Hermes where it can just interact directly on whatever community you have, whether that's Slack or Discord. But it seems way easier to set up. And also this is pretty fast. And then also the CLI hasn't cost us anything extra because we've already got that loaded.

We've already got GPT 5.6 with Codex and we have Cloud Code as well. Now the agent, it looks like it actually looked through my local files in OpenClaw so you can see that at the bottom and it should be coming up with content-ideas. Also, because it's got Codex, it should be able to create images as well. But I'll test that out in a second.

Let's see if it can or not. So we've got a reply on that now. Let's have a look. Switch off those notifications.

That's how you get distracted, my friends. And then you can see here, it's come up with a bunch of ideas. And these ideas are not actually bad at all. So OpenClaw versus Cloud Code versus AutoGPT.

Another one is I gave an AI agent, so a computer, RunGrok and Minimax in one agent. So it's come up with ideas for X and Substack and a blog, which is pretty cool as well. This is awesome. And then it's like, right, do you want me to draft the full script, write the expert thread or spin up the SEO pillar post, create the blog post.

This is very, very easy to use. It's like way more intuitive than most of the agents out there. And also this is quite interesting because for example, if you were looking at something like Hermes agent, or for example, maybe you're thinking about using OpenClaw, you can't use your Cloud CLI with those different tools, but you can use the Cloud CLI with this system, which is quite useful. I think the only problem here is like, you have to tag the agent in directly every time.

So even when we reply to Fizz here, we have to tag him in and then just say, create the blog. Let's see if it can figure it out. Yeah. So when we just reply without tagging them in, it doesn't do anything.

But when we tag them in, it replies here. And then I guess as well, I could probably give it access to my Netlify access token, and then it could actually create the content and plug it directly to our website and publish it for us. So you see it here. It says on it, writing the OpenClaw complete beginner's guide.

Now we're dropping it into WordPress. It's a draft for your review. Oh, wow. So it's actually got access to my WordPress as well.

That's awesome. I didn't have to set anything up here. I don't know if that's actually going to work, but if it does, that's amazing because it's already using our setup locally. And then if you go to the welcome section here, so welcome.

We're here to get you oriented. So I think you could actually, ah, so here it explains what it does, right? So like Honey is good at writing, Bumble is good at researching, Fizz is the maker, so that can actually build stuff and there's different specialties. And then you can create your own AI agents as well.

Pretty cool idea though, so far. It also gives you a timer over here so you can see how long it takes for the agents to reply. You've got your inbox so you can see where you've been tagged. And then we've got our agents here where we can create like a new team or we can create a new agent.

We can actually choose from a category. I assume they're probably going to add more later. We can import one as well. So if we have a snapshot, we can actually import a new agent and then we can create one from scratch.

So we can choose, okay. Do you want to use the harness default? Do you want multiple different conversations at once? Or do you want it to be called?

Do you want any environmental variables? So I guess you could set an API key over there. Who it can talk to. So whether it's like anyone on your team or just an allow list that you've allowed certain people on your team to access.

You can customize the agent too, so you can switch between Codex, BuzzAgent or Claude, which model it's going to use. Ah, so you can switch between Opus over here as well. And you can actually select a custom model there too. Pretty cool.

And then we can add a little profile picture for it as well. So you could add like different agents, depending on what their specialties are. Like you could have one video agent. You could have one agent that's just like a really good at creating videos or content or whenever you automate.

I think the best way to look at this is like, okay, where do you spend your time? Let's go for that. But look at this. It's actually, I didn't give it any access to WordPress, but it already has my WordPress login details.

I think because of my Claude setup. And then if we click on this, for example, I think it's in draft. So we'll have to log in first to view it. Let's have a look.

By the way, if you like this sort of stuff, check out the air profile boarding link in the comments, description or go.com to check out more trainings and stuff like this. The reason I actually created it was because we had a few people asking about me doing a review on this. That link does not work as it just hallucinated the link. Oh, it's definitely, it's going to need some training.

I want to say make it live. Let's check. It works. Don't let me down here Fizz.

So it knows our website, but it just, the actual draft didn't work from what I can see. So I'll look in post, see if it actually created anything. Oh, there we go. So it did actually create the link.

I think it just gave me the wrong link or something. That's the actual correct link. Nicely formatted. It looks good.

All right. So even use the custom workflow that we're already trained with Claude on, because this is how we normally create SEO blog posts. Formatting it nicely, really in depth, really useful. That is pretty cool.

And then it's just working on publishing here and you can see the activity in terms of what it's working on at the bottom. But yeah, that is way easier than configuring Hermes agent or for example, OpenClaw plus you can use the CLI plus it's a free app to use. And also one of the reasons I stopped using Slack was because it was like, it was getting crazy expensive for the size of our team. We actually switched to Discord instead.

So it says everything's been shipped. It's just verified. Let's see if it actually works. Then it's offered some inbound links.

I did check the link again. It still didn't work, which is not great because it has created the blog and you see here it's using computer users as well directly to check that it actually works. I saw it open up Firefox there a second ago. Let's check what the actual link is.

Here we go. Ah, it's just my cache. No, it did actually work. It's just the cache.

I had to open it up in the incognito tab and there we go. Full blog post created. So pretty nice. Setup worked perfectly.

Works really nice. Really easy to use. If we refresh that page, there we go. It actually works now.

So that was my mistake, not the agent's. Fair enough. And it's used our custom workflows that Claude has already trained on. That is amazing.

So pretty good tool. Definitely worth checking out. If you like Slack, you're probably going to like that. If you have a big team that you want to give access to AI agents, this looks really cool.

Super easy to use, super easy to set up. I think you could build out a lot of great channels for this and it's just like ready to go whenever you need it. And then also the good thing is like, even if you run out of tokens on say Claude, you could switch over to Codex and use GPT 516. Let's just see what other use cases it's got.

Yeah. So it's coming with a mobile app as well. That's going to be really good. By far the easiest way, by the way, is to set it up via the app.

Like if you use Opus 5 in Cycle or Desktop, like 22 minutes in, it's still not set up. I'm just going to stop it there. So I think you're much better off just using the app unless you want to be sitting around for hours, trying to get that to work. And then it also has memory, which is pretty good.

So you can say, okay, have we seen this bug before? Can you fix it? Blah, blah, blah. You can also branch a room.

So if we go over here, I think, oh, we can move it as well. We can move it around. And yeah, really good tool. Definitely worth checking out.

So far, so good. It's only useful if you use Claude and Codex, but I think for most people watching this, you can probably use Claude or Codex one or two. So that's basically it. Yeah.

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