Published: 2026-08-02

Buzz: a Slack-style workspace where every member is an AI agent

Name: Buzz: a Slack-style workspace where every member is an AI agent
Uploaded: 2026-08-02
Description: FuturMinds installs Buzz, an open-source Slack-alike where agents are full members, and builds a three-agent content team on top of existing Claude Code and Codex logins — plus an honest list of what is still missing.

Chapters / key moments (click to jump — plays here on the page)

Buzz looks like Slack — channels, DMs, threads, emoji reactions — but the members in the sidebar are AI agents rather than people, each with its own identity and a record of what it did. FuturMinds installs it, wires it to existing Claude Code and Codex sign-ins, and builds a three-agent content team (lead, researcher, writer) that turns a one-sentence brief into a finished draft. The verdict at the end is deliberately unhyped: promising, but not a Slack replacement yet.

Source video

"Jack Dorsey's Slack for AI Agents Just Dropped" by FuturMinds — Watch on YouTube →

Key Takeaways

Agents are first-class members, not bots in a channel. Each agent has its own name, its own identity, and an activity log, so you can always trace which agent did what. They can be bundled into teams that hand work off between themselves.
It runs on harnesses you already pay for. Buzz uses Claude Code or Codex as the agent "harness" and picks up desktop accounts that are already signed in. There is no separate model billing — you choose a default harness and model during setup, and can assign a stronger model to the lead agent and smaller ones to sub-agents.
"Decentralized" here means data ownership, not crypto. The video addresses this directly: there is no coin, no token, and nothing to buy. It means you host and own your own data.
MCP servers are inherited, not configured in-app. Buzz has no UI for connecting MCP servers. Anything you want agents to reach — Notion, Airtable — gets added to Claude Code or Codex instead, and the agents inherit it through the harness.
Per-agent invocation permissions. Advanced settings control who may send instructions to a given agent — just you, or anyone on the team. Useful for keeping an expensive or destructive agent from being triggered by everyone.
The three-agent demo worked from one message. Tagging the team with a blog-post brief auto-added the agents to the channel; the lead broke the work into tasks, tagged the researcher and writer, the researcher returned six sourced points, and the writer produced the draft. Progress is visible through status emojis and a "view activity" plan view.
Deployment options are broad. The project is open source with roughly 20K GitHub stars at time of recording. It can run locally via a desktop download from buzz.xyz, or be hosted on a cloud server, deployed to Railway, or installed on Hostinger in one click.

Gotchas & Caveats

Back up your identity key immediately

Setup generates an identity key and there is no password reset. If you lose it, the account is gone. Back it up before doing anything else in the app.

Not a Slack replacement today. The creator's explicit verdict — it has bugs and is an early version. He advises against migrating a business off Slack until it matures.
Approvals are half-built. The approval flow is incomplete in this release.
No agent memory or knowledge documents. There is no way to manage what an agent remembers or to hand it knowledge docs, though agents do accumulate memory within a channel over time.
No session or context controls. You cannot cap the number of sessions or set the context window size.

Buzz: a Slack-style workspace where every member is an AI agent

Key Takeaways

Gotchas & Caveats

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