Describe the bug
On Buzz Desktop 0.5.5 for macOS, a batch of owner-reviewed draft-create forms appeared to save successfully, but the resulting identities are orphaned: their kind:0 profiles and bot channel memberships exist on the relay, while no local managed-agent record, retained kind:30177 head, or durable agent key exists. They are absent from the Agents view, unavailable in Desktop mention autocomplete, and cannot run.
This is distinct from the cross-device mention-only case in #3277: the affected identities are missing from the same Desktop that reviewed and saved the forms, and there is no host runtime left to invoke.
Observed sequence
- Agents sent owner-reviewed
draft-create requests through the supported Buzz CLI flow.
- The owner reviewed and saved eleven create forms in Desktop 0.5.5.
- Follow-up
draft-update forms were also reviewed and saved for those names.
- After restart, all eleven were absent from the Agents view and mention autocomplete.
The create/update requests were sent close together, but the owner reviewed the forms individually.
Evidence from the affected installation
- App version/build:
0.5.5 / 0.5.5, Apple Silicon macOS.
- All eleven active pubkeys have resolving kind:0 profiles and are current
bot members of the channel.
- Six older duplicate pubkeys are separately archived; the active eleven are not archived.
agents/managed-agents.json contains 17 records, all belonging to the pre-existing seven definitions/instances and older built-in duplicates. None of the eleven pubkeys or names occurs anywhere under the app data directory.
- The active scoped retention databases contain kind:30177 heads only for pre-existing agents (10 and 14 heads respectively); none contains any of the eleven pubkeys.
- The macOS
buzz-desktop keychain blob exists, but its modification time predates the eleven saves. No key material for those pubkeys was durably added.
- None of the eleven pubkeys has authored a message in the affected channel.
- Re-publishing channel membership events does not help, as expected: membership cannot reconstruct runnable private configuration.
Expected behavior
Saving an owner-reviewed create form must be atomic from the user's point of view:
- Either the private key/config, local record, public managed-agent projection/profile, and requested channel attachment all commit successfully; or
- the save fails visibly and compensates any already-published public profile/membership so no orphan identity remains.
The Desktop should not dismiss the form or report success until durable local/private state is verified. On startup, an owner-authored public profile with no runnable configuration should be surfaced as an explicit recovery/error state rather than silently omitted.
Relationship to existing work
Suggested regression invariant
After any create command returns success, assert all of the following for the same pubkey:
- the key store can read the generated nsec;
managed-agents.json (or the authoritative successor store) contains the runnable record;
- retained public and private config heads exist as applicable;
- relay profile publication and channel attachment completed;
- a fresh list/refetch displays exactly one agent and can resolve its mention target.
Inject a failure after each persistence/publication phase and assert either full recovery on restart or complete compensation, never a profile-only orphan.
Describe the bug
On Buzz Desktop 0.5.5 for macOS, a batch of owner-reviewed
draft-createforms appeared to save successfully, but the resulting identities are orphaned: their kind:0 profiles andbotchannel memberships exist on the relay, while no local managed-agent record, retained kind:30177 head, or durable agent key exists. They are absent from the Agents view, unavailable in Desktop mention autocomplete, and cannot run.This is distinct from the cross-device mention-only case in #3277: the affected identities are missing from the same Desktop that reviewed and saved the forms, and there is no host runtime left to invoke.
Observed sequence
draft-createrequests through the supported Buzz CLI flow.draft-updateforms were also reviewed and saved for those names.The create/update requests were sent close together, but the owner reviewed the forms individually.
Evidence from the affected installation
0.5.5/0.5.5, Apple Silicon macOS.botmembers of the channel.agents/managed-agents.jsoncontains 17 records, all belonging to the pre-existing seven definitions/instances and older built-in duplicates. None of the eleven pubkeys or names occurs anywhere under the app data directory.buzz-desktopkeychain blob exists, but its modification time predates the eleven saves. No key material for those pubkeys was durably added.Expected behavior
Saving an owner-reviewed create form must be atomic from the user's point of view:
The Desktop should not dismiss the form or report success until durable local/private state is verified. On startup, an owner-authored public profile with no runnable configuration should be surfaced as an explicit recovery/error state rather than silently omitted.
Relationship to existing work
Suggested regression invariant
After any create command returns success, assert all of the following for the same pubkey:
managed-agents.json(or the authoritative successor store) contains the runnable record;Inject a failure after each persistence/publication phase and assert either full recovery on restart or complete compensation, never a profile-only orphan.