# The agent workspace you already have > Source: > Published: 2026-07-27 13:00:00+00:00 # The agent workspace you already have Jack Dorsey’s Block launched [Buzz](https://buzz.xyz) this week, and it’s worth paying attention to. Buzz is a new workspace where AI agents are full members alongside people. An agent gets its own identity, joins the same channels and threads as your team, opens repositories, reviews code, and runs workflows, with every action signed and traceable back to whoever authorized it. It folds chat, a Git forge, and agents into one [open-source](https://github.com/block/buzz) app built on [Nostr](https://nostr.com). I think Dorsey is right about the destination. Humans and agents working side by side, in the same place, on the same work, is where the world is heading. Buzz is a serious statement of that idea from someone with the standing to make it land. But I think we’ll get there via a different path. Buzz asks a company to move. To get humans and agents in one workspace, you adopt a new platform, with a decentralized identity system underneath it, and you bring your whole team and everything they work in onto it. That’s a real lift, and it’s a bet that teams will leave the tools they live in for a better-designed replacement. Slack and GitHub are the incumbents Buzz is aiming at, and dislodging where a company already works is the hardest thing in software. The other bet is that the workspace for humans and agents already exists. It’s the email and chat your team is in right now. You don’t need everyone to move for an agent to become a teammate. You need the agent to plug into the stream where the work already flows. That’s the bet we made at this+that. The agent reads the messages arriving across Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Teams, and the rest, pulls the real work out, and acts on it through workflows, with a person approving what matters until the agent has earned the user’s trust. It shows up where the work already is. Now the fair objection: aren’t we asking you to move too? Partly, yes. this+that gives you a new place to read and deal with your messages, a unified inbox across your channels, and that’s a real change in where your attention goes. But the move is a different shape. We connect to the tools your work lives in instead of replacing them. Your email stays in Gmail and Outlook, your code in GitHub, wired in rather than migrated out. Your team keeps the accounts it already has, and nothing moves onto a new platform. The surface you read through changes; the systems of record don’t. And one person can start alone, because there’s no new network to join, just your own accounts to connect. Buzz asks a whole team to leave its tools for a platform that only pays off once everyone is on it. We ask you to add one. There’s a framing underneath this that I keep coming back to: who starts the work. Buzz, like Slack, is a place you go to begin something. You open it and type something to get started. this+that starts from the other end, the work that’s already arriving whether you open an app or not. The request in a support thread, or the deadline buried in an email nobody flagged. The job is to catch that and carry it forward, not to give you one more place to go. And this isn’t only business operations. Take a bug reported in a support email. In this+that, it can become a tracked issue, get sent to a coding agent to fix, and come back as a pull request routed to a person for review. Once that’s approved and merged, the loop closes back to the reporter, with the task updated and the person notified. The whole path runs on the inbox and chat your team already uses. So the engineering work Buzz is built around can happen without anyone leaving the tools they’re in. None of this makes Buzz wrong. Decentralized identity and signed, auditable agent actions are genuinely interesting, and for a team that wants to rebuild its workspace from the substrate up, it’s a real option. But most companies are not going to move. They are going to want their agents to work where their people already do. The category Dorsey just validated is the one we’ve been building for. We just don’t think you should have to switch everything to join it.