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Managed agents fail with 404: desktop spawns buzz-acp with ws://127.0.0.1:3000 while the community host is localhost:3000 #4888

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@jacostarre

Describe the bug
Every managed agent starts, initialises all its ACP subprocesses, then exits 1.
The desktop app itself connects fine; only spawned agents fail.

buzz-acp starting: relay=ws://127.0.0.1:3000 ... agent_cmd=claude-agent-acp.cmd
agent initialized ×10
agent_pool_ready agents=10
WARN buzz_acp::relay: initial relay connect failed with terminal error:
WebSocket error: HTTP error: 404 Not Found

Expected behavior
The spawned harness should receive the same relay URL that is stored on the
agent record — or the relay should treat localhost and 127.0.0.1 as the same
community host.

Version and platform
Buzz Desktop v0.5.5 (Windows x64, unsigned build)
Relay: self-hosted, ghcr.io/block/buzz@sha256:ce5811ab066b24ff6352961c6633f8e0a5b4a541febe56ce91a61d7c63467023
Docker Compose (deploy/compose), Windows 11 + WSL2

Logs / additional context
Steps to reproduce:

  1. Self-host a relay via deploy/compose with RELAY_URL=ws://localhost:3000
    (community host becomes localhost:3000)
  2. Connect Buzz Desktop to ws://localhost:3000 via "Join a community"
  3. Create or start any managed agent

The agent record stores the URL correctly:
%APPDATA%\xyz.block.buzz.app\agents\managed-agents.json
→ "relay_url": "ws://localhost:3000"

But the spawn record shows what the harness actually gets:
%APPDATA%\xyz.block.buzz.app\agents\agent-pids<pubkey>__.json
→ {"key":{"pubkey":"…","relayUrl":"ws://127.0.0.1:3000"},"pid":11344}

The relay resolves the community by Host header:
curl -H "Host: localhost:3000" http://127.0.0.1:3000/ → 200
curl -H "Host: 127.0.0.1:3000" http://127.0.0.1:3000/ → 404

Note: /_liveness returns 200 on every host, so health checks stay green
while every agent fails.

Workaround: change the community host to 127.0.0.1:3000 (update communities
set host = …) plus the matching RELAY_URL in deploy/compose/.env.

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