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REG-5 push notifications (cherry-pick block#6269), REG-17 qualification receipts, REG-18 timeline accessibility. Full gates green locally; review findings fixed in b5a3d61.

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This PR implements MVP, iOS-only,
[NIP-PL](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/8d2d0ff5ad42733e9949442c4b6358d0ba87f9a8/docs/nips/NIP-PL.md)-compliant
push notifications.

A relay with `BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED` will send a push notification for any
message that appears in the in-app Notifications tab.

The first time the client first connects to a relay with
`BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED`:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant App as Buzz iOS app
    participant iOS
    participant Relay as Buzz relay
    participant Attest as Apple App Attest
    participant Gateway as Push gateway

    App->>Relay: Fetch NIP-11 push capability
    Relay-->>App: Push profile, current relay public key, and limits

    par
        App->>iOS: Request notification permission
        iOS-->>App: Permission result
    and
        App->>iOS: Register for remote notifications
        iOS-->>App: Device token
    end

    App->>Gateway: Request installation challenge
    Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
    App->>Attest: Attest installation transcript
    Attest-->>App: Attestation proof
    App->>Gateway: Enroll device token and proof
    Gateway-->>App: Installation handle

    App->>Gateway: Request delegation challenge
    Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
    App->>Attest: Assert relay-key delegation
    Attest-->>App: Assertion
    App->>Gateway: Create delegation
    Gateway-->>App: Opaque endpoint grant

    App->>Relay: Publish encrypted push lease and filters
    Relay-->>App: Lease acknowledged
```

When a notification-eligible event is received by the relay:

```mermaid
%%{init: {
  "sequence": {
    "actorMargin": 20,
    "width": 110,
    "messageMargin": 18,
    "diagramMarginX": 8,
    "wrap": true
  }
}}%%
sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant Relay as Buzz relay
    participant Gateway as Push gateway
    participant APNs as Apple Push<br/>Notification service
    participant iOS
    participant NSE as Notification service<br/>extension

    Relay->>Gateway: POST /v1/deliveries/apns<br/>opaque endpoint grant, request ID, expiry, NIP-98 authorization

    Gateway->>APNs: POST /3/device/{device-token}<br/>topic, request ID, expiry, constant mutable-content payload
    APNs-->>Gateway: 200 OK: request accepted
    Gateway-->>Relay: 200 OK: accepted status

    APNs-->>iOS: Notification: constant reconnect alert<br/>mutable-content = 1
    iOS->>NSE: Invoke extension<br/>original notification content

    NSE->>Relay: POST /query: subscription filters, limit 10<br/>NIP-98 authorization
    Relay-->>NSE: 200 OK: signed Nostr events<br/>kinds 9, 40002, 45001, or 45003

    NSE->>iOS: Complete notification: title, body, subtitle<br/>thread ID, exact-message target
```

relay → push gateway → APNs -> NSE -> Notification Center

The APNs wake payload is intentionally constant and opaque: it contains
no originating community or message identifier, in keeping with the
implemented NIP-PL privacy design.

The Notification Service Extension must therefore reconnect to the relay
and resolve eligible messages after each wake. Around overlapping wakes,
timing boundaries, or resolution windows, notification presentation may
occasionally omit an expected message or display a message more than
once.

This best-effort behavior is deliberately accepted for the current
implementation and will be measured during the internal rollout to
determine whether the user experience is acceptable before any broader
deployment; the implementation does not claim exactly-once presentation.

Live end-to-end hardware validation used an internal remotely hosted
development relay and push gateway, the APNs sandbox, and a physical
iPhone 12 mini:

- A second real Buzz client published a uniquely marked message through
the hosted relay.
- The relay matched the message and sent the constant opaque wake
through the hosted gateway. The gateway made an actual APNs request; no
`simctl push` or simulated notification was used.
- The iPhone received the notification on its lock screen. The
Notification Service Extension reconnected to the relay, fetched the
event, verified its ID and signature, and replaced the placeholder
content with the real notification title and body.
- After the app populated its shared presentation cache, a final marked
notification visibly showed the sender display name, sender avatar, and
hashtag-prefixed channel name.
- Tapping a lock-screen notification opened Buzz and exercised the
notification-response path and navigated to the corresponding message.

Final validation with a dogfood-signed artifact and production App
Attest/APNs configuration remains a release step.

- **First pass:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=74ab9a93bb227f3e762568f1cf9fee66d7495b0edc3918735ff787238b9cc585)
found missing transient retries, executor-key rotation suppression,
duplicate installation renewal, and an unauthenticated challenge write
amplifier. These were resolved by [retry-safe
bootstrap](block@12c66ea62)
and [authenticated renewal plus a cross-replica
quota](block@8e5ece0bd).
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=d26d53daa4684669e2ed354638241f13f36c3a97027fe8b4dd738aff09038962)
found delegation generation burning and an edited applied migration,
resolved by [exact-generation
revocation](block@c26d2159d)
and a [forward-only
migration](block@956c1d099).
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=d43139138a0b15f806cbdbeeedd8f69d992cadf2e805876db6fdde6a34c7eda1)
found no blockers.
- **Exact-head re-review:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=a897721673459301b0cf26e8b85a1478d7ebbb56a4621f93d774c98d395b8f68),
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=fb2159f709ec68f74f7b21459acd76da0e8a7c5c0f3d469f99826b0cc2380849),
and
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=2ce2842910435f562e9d9cc718595848f281b122c94605e523a4b964254b8bfb)
independently returned **NO BLOCKERS** at `7eb3a650b`; k3-max also
revalidated every remediation and the endpoint-specific App Attest
enrollment bound.

---------

Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Mecom <jm@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Feth <mfethe1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Feth <mfethe1@gmail.com>
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CI failure triage (2026-09-01)

Baseline probe (PR #7, product/main @ e788bd2 + empty commit, now closed) proves product/main itself fails the same CI jobs:

  • Mobile / file-size ratchet: product/main already fails vs last-green main (channels_provider.dart 1000→1008, thread_detail_page.dart 994→1078, relay_session.dart 977→1009). The ratchet compares against HEAD^1 on PRs, so this PR inherits that debt.
  • Mobile golden_shot failures: missing Flutter SDK font in runner hermit cache (materialicons-regular.otf not found) — infra, reproduces on neither branch locally (6/6 pass on both).
  • Docker image builds: fork GHCR push permission_denied — fork permissions, not code.
  • Windows buzz-acp pool tests / Desktop E2E Integration / Smoke E2E: fail on baseline probe too (Desktop, Desktop E2E Integration) or are in files untouched by this diff (buzz-acp pool.rs).

This diff's own gates (run against origin/product/main): Rust fmt/clippy/test, dart format, mobile ratchet vs product/main, desktop/web file-size ratchets, file-size core tests, flutter test (45/45 relay, 6/6 golden), Harbor Buzz Orchestra (green on PR), Security Gate, helm/Mesh — all pass.

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CI accounting for head 9a2176f (CA-fix cherry-pick added)

Green: Python tests+lint (REG-17 code), Harbor Buzz Orchestra, Security Gate, Mesh Lifecycle, helm/push-gateway charts, Desktop Core.

Red, none caused by this diff:

  1. Mobile — 6x golden_shot_test failures: runner's Hermit Flutter cache lacks materialicons-regular.otf (SDK artifact file-not-found). Identical on previous head f473ebf. Diff touches no fonts/golden tests.
  2. Docker image (4 jobs)buildx: error writing layer blob: denied: permission_denied: The requested installation does not exist. GHCR installation-side; identical on f473ebf.
  3. Desktop (Smoke E2E shards) — failing specs (badge/messaging/spoiler/thread-reply) differ between f473ebf and 9a2176f, whose desktop trees are identical → flaky suite. Diff's only desktop change is TimelineAnnouncementRegion.tsx; failing specs are unrelated.
  4. Desktop E2E Integration — failed on the unmodified-baseline probe PR ci: baseline probe of product/main (not for merge) #7 (run 33542390799) as well; pre-existing.

Full detail in the registry ledger (ci-evidence.md). This PR's own changed-path gates are green.

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Correction to earlier triage (Desktop E2E Integration): the baseline probe's E2E job failed fail-fast without running tests, so it didn't prove that class. Direct local repro instead: the 3 failing integration tests (agents.spec.ts:2712, onboarding.spec.ts:1915/:2356) fail identically with our full desktop/ tree reverted to pure origin/product/main — i.e. they are baseline-owned failures, not caused by this PR (whose only desktop change is the TimelineAnnouncementRegion mount). Evidence in the registry ledger; update posted for accuracy.

…lock#5706 card-click contract

d12d825 (block#5706) deliberately made persona card clicks open the persona
target instead of an explicit instance pubkey; these two tests still pinned
the pre-change behavior and failed deterministically on product/main (which
has no CI check-runs, so the break was silent). Update them to verify the
new contract: card click -> profilePersona param + running instance
primary action, with the exact-instance pick delegated to the panel
Runtime tab -> Instances list.
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Follow-up to the Desktop E2E Integration triage: root-caused and fixed the two deterministic baseline failures.

Root cause: d12d82577 (block#5706, Aug 17) deliberately changed persona card clicks to open the persona target instead of an explicit instance pubkey. Two tests still pinned the pre-change contract:

  • tests/e2e/profile.spec.ts:1837 — expected profile=<pubkey> from card click; now sets profilePersona=<id>
  • tests/e2e/agents.spec.ts:2712 — expected the stopped "Fizz" card to open Fizz directly; the archive-aware selector now resolves to the running "Claude" instance

product/main has 0 CI check-runs, so this trunk regression was silent.

Fix (e785162): tests updated to pin the post-block#5706 contract — card click → persona target (profilePersona param, running-instance primary action), with the exact-instance pick verified through the panel's Runtime tab → Instances list. Both tests verified green locally (playwright integration, retries=0). The two onboarding failures were separate load-flakes (passed on retry in CI and locally after a fresh build:e2e dist).

Note for reviewers: this is a test-only fix; the app behavior was intentional per block#5706.

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CI accounting for head e78516243 (run 33564879243 + image build run 33564879196):

✅ Decisive result: Desktop E2E Integration (1/2) + (2/2) both SUCCESS — the two deterministic baseline failures (agents.spec.ts:2712, profile.spec.ts:1837) are fixed in CI by e78516243.

Failures, all previously-triaged non-diff classes:

  • Build + Build public push gateway (amd64/arm64) — GHCR permission_denied: The requested installation does not exist on layer-blob write; registry-side infra, identical on prior heads.
  • Mobile — 2117 passed / 6 failed, all 6 in golden_shot_test.dart (Hermit font-cache class, same as job 100016376196).
  • Desktop Smoke E2E (3)/(4) — 1 and 4 failed of 301/261 passed. Failure sets are disjoint from the previous head's run (prior: thread-reply-anchor, virtualization-list, workflows-deletes; now: navigation-composer-icons, spoiler-masked-link, workflows-edits) → run-to-run load flakes, unaffected by this test-only diff (smoke project doesn't include agents/profile specs).
  • Windows Rust — cancelled via fail-fast once the build jobs failed.

Net: the only checks this diff can influence (Desktop Core, Unit Tests, Desktop E2E Integration, type/lint gates) pass or are downstream of infra failures.

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Windows Rust attribution (completes the accounting for head e78516243): the 20 failures (859 passed) in buzz-acp pool tests are pre-existing trunk state, not this diff. Run 33539247534 (job 99961539140, head 33259e000, predating all REG work) shows the identical signature — same 20 tests, same pool.rs panic lines, same 859/20 split. Intervening heads had this job cancelled by fail-fast, which is why the break is only visible now. This diff touches desktop TS e2e specs only; no Rust.

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* feat(mobile): push notifications MVP (block#6269)

This PR implements MVP, iOS-only,
[NIP-PL](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/8d2d0ff5ad42733e9949442c4b6358d0ba87f9a8/docs/nips/NIP-PL.md)-compliant
push notifications.

A relay with `BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED` will send a push notification for any
message that appears in the in-app Notifications tab.

The first time the client first connects to a relay with
`BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED`:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant App as Buzz iOS app
    participant iOS
    participant Relay as Buzz relay
    participant Attest as Apple App Attest
    participant Gateway as Push gateway

    App->>Relay: Fetch NIP-11 push capability
    Relay-->>App: Push profile, current relay public key, and limits

    par
        App->>iOS: Request notification permission
        iOS-->>App: Permission result
    and
        App->>iOS: Register for remote notifications
        iOS-->>App: Device token
    end

    App->>Gateway: Request installation challenge
    Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
    App->>Attest: Attest installation transcript
    Attest-->>App: Attestation proof
    App->>Gateway: Enroll device token and proof
    Gateway-->>App: Installation handle

    App->>Gateway: Request delegation challenge
    Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
    App->>Attest: Assert relay-key delegation
    Attest-->>App: Assertion
    App->>Gateway: Create delegation
    Gateway-->>App: Opaque endpoint grant

    App->>Relay: Publish encrypted push lease and filters
    Relay-->>App: Lease acknowledged
```

When a notification-eligible event is received by the relay:

```mermaid
%%{init: {
  "sequence": {
    "actorMargin": 20,
    "width": 110,
    "messageMargin": 18,
    "diagramMarginX": 8,
    "wrap": true
  }
}}%%
sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant Relay as Buzz relay
    participant Gateway as Push gateway
    participant APNs as Apple Push<br/>Notification service
    participant iOS
    participant NSE as Notification service<br/>extension

    Relay->>Gateway: POST /v1/deliveries/apns<br/>opaque endpoint grant, request ID, expiry, NIP-98 authorization

    Gateway->>APNs: POST /3/device/{device-token}<br/>topic, request ID, expiry, constant mutable-content payload
    APNs-->>Gateway: 200 OK: request accepted
    Gateway-->>Relay: 200 OK: accepted status

    APNs-->>iOS: Notification: constant reconnect alert<br/>mutable-content = 1
    iOS->>NSE: Invoke extension<br/>original notification content

    NSE->>Relay: POST /query: subscription filters, limit 10<br/>NIP-98 authorization
    Relay-->>NSE: 200 OK: signed Nostr events<br/>kinds 9, 40002, 45001, or 45003

    NSE->>iOS: Complete notification: title, body, subtitle<br/>thread ID, exact-message target
```

relay → push gateway → APNs -> NSE -> Notification Center

The APNs wake payload is intentionally constant and opaque: it contains
no originating community or message identifier, in keeping with the
implemented NIP-PL privacy design.

The Notification Service Extension must therefore reconnect to the relay
and resolve eligible messages after each wake. Around overlapping wakes,
timing boundaries, or resolution windows, notification presentation may
occasionally omit an expected message or display a message more than
once.

This best-effort behavior is deliberately accepted for the current
implementation and will be measured during the internal rollout to
determine whether the user experience is acceptable before any broader
deployment; the implementation does not claim exactly-once presentation.

Live end-to-end hardware validation used an internal remotely hosted
development relay and push gateway, the APNs sandbox, and a physical
iPhone 12 mini:

- A second real Buzz client published a uniquely marked message through
the hosted relay.
- The relay matched the message and sent the constant opaque wake
through the hosted gateway. The gateway made an actual APNs request; no
`simctl push` or simulated notification was used.
- The iPhone received the notification on its lock screen. The
Notification Service Extension reconnected to the relay, fetched the
event, verified its ID and signature, and replaced the placeholder
content with the real notification title and body.
- After the app populated its shared presentation cache, a final marked
notification visibly showed the sender display name, sender avatar, and
hashtag-prefixed channel name.
- Tapping a lock-screen notification opened Buzz and exercised the
notification-response path and navigated to the corresponding message.

Final validation with a dogfood-signed artifact and production App
Attest/APNs configuration remains a release step.

- **First pass:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=74ab9a93bb227f3e762568f1cf9fee66d7495b0edc3918735ff787238b9cc585)
found missing transient retries, executor-key rotation suppression,
duplicate installation renewal, and an unauthenticated challenge write
amplifier. These were resolved by [retry-safe
bootstrap](block@12c66ea62)
and [authenticated renewal plus a cross-replica
quota](block@8e5ece0bd).
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=d26d53daa4684669e2ed354638241f13f36c3a97027fe8b4dd738aff09038962)
found delegation generation burning and an edited applied migration,
resolved by [exact-generation
revocation](block@c26d2159d)
and a [forward-only
migration](block@956c1d099).
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=d43139138a0b15f806cbdbeeedd8f69d992cadf2e805876db6fdde6a34c7eda1)
found no blockers.
- **Exact-head re-review:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=a897721673459301b0cf26e8b85a1478d7ebbb56a4621f93d774c98d395b8f68),
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=fb2159f709ec68f74f7b21459acd76da0e8a7c5c0f3d469f99826b0cc2380849),
and
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=2ce2842910435f562e9d9cc718595848f281b122c94605e523a4b964254b8bfb)
independently returned **NO BLOCKERS** at `7eb3a650b`; k3-max also
revalidated every remediation and the endpoint-specific App Attest
enrollment bound.

---------

Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Mecom <jm@squareup.com>

* [lenny] implement: REG-17 qualification receipt core

Signed-off-by: Michael Feth <mfethe1@gmail.com>

* [lenny] implement: REG-18 timeline announcements

Signed-off-by: Michael Feth <mfethe1@gmail.com>

* [lenny] fix: REG-17 review findings (exact git SHA lengths, redact secret launch flags)

* [lenny] fix: allowlist synthetic APNs test fixtures in gitleaks

* [lenny] fix: dart format mobile

* [lenny] fix: restore relay_session.dart under mobile file-size ratchet

* [lenny] fix: keep relay_session.dart under mobile ratchet with guard restored

* [lenny] fix: upload CA bundle into task containers so buzz-agent's rustls can build its HTTP client in TLS-rootless images (REG-17 joined-trial enabler); add local qwen36 manifest/endpoint

* [lenny] fix(e2e): align persona gallery/profile tests with the post-block#5706 card-click contract

d12d825 (block#5706) deliberately made persona card clicks open the persona
target instead of an explicit instance pubkey; these two tests still pinned
the pre-change behavior and failed deterministically on product/main (which
has no CI check-runs, so the break was silent). Update them to verify the
new contract: card click -> profilePersona param + running instance
primary action, with the exact-instance pick delegated to the panel
Runtime tab -> Instances list.

---------

Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Feth <mfethe1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Mecom <jm@squareup.com>
mfethe1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
…ontents (#35)

* [lenny] fix(desktop): stop the timeline live region leaking spoiler contents

`TimelineAnnouncementRegion` announced `message.body` verbatim into an
`aria-live` status region. Any `||spoiler||` span — including the destination
of a masked `[label](url)` link inside it — was therefore published to the
accessibility tree, and read aloud by screen readers, before the reader chose
to reveal it. Sighted users got the hidden-until-revealed guarantee; screen
reader users did not.

Redact spoiler spans at the announcement source via `redactSpoilers`, so the
live region emits "spoiler hidden" in their place.

This is a fork-local regression: `TimelineAnnouncementRegion.tsx` does not
exist upstream (added by #6), while `spoiler.spec.ts` is byte-identical to
upstream/main — our new component broke an inherited guarantee.

Fixes the upstream E2E spec `spoiler.spec.ts:256` "masked link inside a hidden
spoiler does not leak its URL until revealed", which asserted count 0 for the
secret URL and received 1.

Evidence:
- spoiler.spec.ts (smoke): 7/7 pass (:256 now green; :166 flaky, passes on
  retry, and was already flaky before this change)
- TimelineAnnouncementRegion.test.mjs: 9/9 pass, incl. 2 new regression tests
  covering redaction and the end-to-end live-region text
- desktop unit suite: 6585/6585 pass (was 6583; +2 new)
- pnpm run check exit 0, pnpm run typecheck exit 0

* [lenny] fix(desktop): clear the timeline live region after it announces

The sr-only `role=status` region kept its last announcement in the DOM forever —
`setAnnouncement` only ever overwrote, never cleared. That leaves a permanent
second copy of a message body in the accessibility tree, which both pollutes
screen-reader navigation and makes `getByText(body)` ambiguous.

Drop the text again after a 500ms retention window: assistive tech announces on
change, so the text has done its job once read. The retention timer goes through
the injected scheduler, is cancelled on channel reset, and is cleared on unmount.

Effects take `clearRetention` (a stable `useCallback` over a scheduler ref)
rather than `scheduler.clear`, so they keep their existing dependency semantics
instead of re-running per render.

Evidence:
- TimelineAnnouncementRegion.test.mjs: 10/10 pass, incl. a new test asserting
  the region empties after the retention window
- desktop unit suite: 6586/6586 pass
- spoiler.spec.ts (smoke): 7/7 pass
- pnpm run check exit 0, pnpm run typecheck exit 0

Note: this does NOT fix thread-unread.spec.ts:962. That test hovers inside the
retention window, so it still sees two matches. Fixing it needs a separate
decision about whether the region should be exempt from text queries.
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