It’s possible you can use an existing nostr relay actually. I didn’t have one running already.
It does look like my issue with the agents was being caused by an open issue for self hosted relays on Mac.
https://github.com/block/buzz/issues/2641
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2026-07-24 21:16:21 UTC
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