[Feature Request] Client and CLI auto-expansion of @everyone / @channel group mentions
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- Rust
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Description
### Summary
Currently in Buzz, sending a message that notifies participants requires explicitly adding a `@Full Name` or `--mention ` for each individual member. Un-tagged messages in channels are posted passively to the feed without sending notifications or routing events to agents.
### Problem
When users want to notify all members in a channel (or trigger all channel-assigned agents to participate in a discussion), they must manually tag each member individually. As channel size grows or team membership changes, this becomes unscalable and easy to miss participants.
### Proposed Solution
1. **Client/CLI Auto-expansion**: Add support in `buzz-cli` (and Buzz Desktop) to parse `@everyone` or `@channel` tokens in message content, auto-resolve all current member pubkeys for the target channel via channel membership metadata, and append explicit Nostr `p` tags (`--mention`) to the event before signing and broadcasting.
2. **Channel Broadcast Event Tag (Optional Protocol Extension)**: Define a standard channel-wide mention mechanism or tag convention for channel events.
### Value
Allows seamless team-wide announcements and multi-agent discussion triggers across channels without requiring manual per-member tagging.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the buzz-cli message parsing and --mention entry points, then trace how channel membership metadata and Nostr p tags are handled before signing and broadcasting. Check the corresponding Buzz Desktop message path as well. Done means @everyone and @channel resolve current channel members consistently in both clients, with the protocol extension decision documented or implemented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100