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No way to edit a published issue body (kind:1621): CLI and Desktop can both create and change status, but never revise content #2990

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What's missing

A NIP-34 issue (kind:1621) is a regular, non-replaceable event. Once published there is no way to change its content or its subject/t tags — not from the CLI (buzz issues is create/get/list/status) and not from Desktop (desktop/src/features/projects/issueMutations.ts exposes publishProjectIssue only; there is no update/edit mutation).

Status is separately mutable via kinds 1630–1633, so lifecycle is fine. The body is not.

Why it matters

Any planning workflow where an issue is a living document is impossible on Buzz Projects. Concretely, the wayfinder planning skill keeps a "map" issue that is rewritten every session as decisions land and scope shrinks. On GitHub that's gh issue edit. On Buzz the only options are to close-and-recreate (losing the id every other event references) or to keep the map outside Projects entirely.

More mundane cases hit this too: fixing a typo, correcting a spec, adding acceptance criteria after triage, expanding a one-line issue into a real description.

Possible directions

  1. NIP-34 revision events, mirroring what PRs already do. buzz pr update (kind 1619, KIND_GIT_PR_UPDATE) exists and projectPullRequests.mjs folds updates onto the root PR. An issues update with the same shape would be consistent with the codebase's existing pattern, and would preserve edit history.
  2. Addressable issues (kind 30000-range with a d tag) so edits are plain replaceable-event upserts, like buzz notes set. Cleaner, but diverges from NIP-34 and breaks e-tag references.

(1) looks like the smaller, more consistent change — the client-side fold logic already exists for pull requests.

Workaround in the meantime

buzz notes (NIP-23, kind 30023) is an editable upsert keyed by (author, slug), so a living planning document can live there and link to the issues. That works but it's outside Projects, so it doesn't show up in the project view.

Verified against block/buzz @ ab3af82 and a live relay.

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