Muse
Meta's sandboxed personal AI agent that carries out tasks such as browsing, shopping and reminders.
HN commenters like Muse for running everyday errands such as reserving parking and placing orders,123 and for recurring monitoring of prices, stock and social feeds.456 The most common caveat is privacy around connecting a Meta agent to more of your life,78 and one user says its attempts succeed only about half the time.9
Why people recommend it
Errand automation · 3
Users have it reserve parking, place Amazon orders, file 311 reports and claim free games.
“I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF.”
“I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders.”
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“I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more "squishy" reminder service”
Ongoing monitoring · 3
It checks sites on a schedule for restocks, glitched pricing deals and topic digests.
“Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.”
“I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals”
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“I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account”
Daily driver · 3
Some users say it exceeded expectations and became something they use every day.
“Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver”
“It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked.”
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“i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just "nice".”
Proactive reminders · 2
It can decide on its own to raise things to your attention and send daily summaries.
“I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more "squishy" reminder service”
“I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders”
Polished experience · 2
Commenters credit it with a more finished, less troubleshooting-heavy setup than alternatives.
“Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver”
Research and scraping · 2
It can explore undocumented APIs and reach Meta sites that are behind login walls.
“Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.”
“One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls”
Caveats and dissent
Privacy · 3
Some users consider it a privacy risk because it gives Meta access to more personal data.
“if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.”
“I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account”
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“Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver”
Unreliable results · 1
One user says its attempts at tasks succeed only about half the time.
“I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more "squishy" reminder service”
Sponsored shopping · 1
One commenter worries it will steer shopping carts toward sponsored products.
“so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.”
Not for everyone · 1
One user would not recommend it to non-technical friends.
“I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account”
Speed · 1
One user notes it is not the fastest on an M4.
“i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just "nice".”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com 3 mentions
- What Meta got right with Muse 2 mentions
- Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent 2 mentions
- Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful 1 mention
- IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem 1 mention
- Claude Duet 1 mention
Data: muse.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account”
“i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just "nice".”
“I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more "squishy" reminder service”
“Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation”
“if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.”
“I usually just have Muse or another AI agent on my box do those things for me.”
“Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver”
“I use muse.ai for code analysis and so far, I find it excellent.”
“Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.”
“I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders”
“One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls”
“I had Muse agent create a skill that can do videos. Worked pretty well.”
“Muse itself is a sandboxed agent that will magically do things for you”
“Didn't know Muse could do this, will have to give it a try.”
“It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked.”
“I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF.”
“I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders.”
“I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects”
“I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals”
“so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.”