Meta Muse: What It Can Do and How to Set It Up

Meta's Muse is an AI assistant with its own cloud computer and browser. You can give it a job, close the app, and let it work until it needs you. The fun part is handing it an errand you've been putting off. The important part is deciding what accounts it can read or change.

What this helps you do

Pick a useful first task, connect only the service that task needs, and check Muse's work before adding more access.

Before you start

• Open Muse through Meta's official Muse page. Meta says it is rolling out in the US on iOS, Android, and the web.
• Start with a task that uses public websites. You can learn how Muse works without connecting your inbox, calendar, or payment account.
• When a task does need an account, decide whether Muse needs to read information, change it, or send something to another person.

Three jobs worth trying

1. Compare the real cost of a purchase. Give Muse links to three phone or internet plans and ask for the price after required fees, the contract length, and the source link for each answer. This is a good first job because it can research public pages without access to your private accounts.
2. Make a gift-card balance list. Photograph the front of a few old cards and ask Muse to find each official balance-check page and organize the results in a table. Enter card numbers or PINs only on the issuer's official site, and check the final balance yourself. A Reddit commenter reported using Muse to check a pile of cards and save the results in a spreadsheet. That is their report, not a guaranteed result.
3. Clear the inbox without sending mail. If you decide to connect email, ask Muse to group messages needing a reply and draft responses. Keep sending turned off while you review the drafts. You can grant send access later if you want it.

One early-access user says Muse waited through an insurance phone menu and called when a human answered. Outbound calling is not available on every account, so use the three jobs above as the starting point.

Terms to know

• Connector: a link between Muse and another service, such as email or a calendar. Find supported connections in Settings > Connectors.
• Read-only: Muse can retrieve information through that connection but cannot change it. Meta asks connector makers to offer this choice where possible, so check the actual permission screen for the service you select.
• Allow once: approve the specific tool use shown on the screen. Always allow can let Muse use a non-sensitive tool again within the approved scope. Meta says sensitive actions such as sending email or making a purchase require approval each time.
• Activity trail: Meta's record of what Muse has done and plans to do. Open it after a task to compare the record with your request.

Step-by-step

1. Start with the public phone-plan comparison above. Check the prices and links yourself so you know what a good result looks like.
2. If you want Muse to work with a private account, open Settings > Connectors and connect only the service needed for your next task. For email triage, choose read-only access if the connection offers it. If it requests permission to send mail, leave that off while you are only asking for drafts.
3. When Muse asks to use a tool, read the action and its scope. Choose Allow once for the first run. If a prompt includes a recipient, price, or destination, check those details before approving it. A connected account is not blanket approval for every action.
4. Open Muse's activity trail after the task. Check which sites or connected services it used, what it changed, and whether the result matches your request. If the job is finished, you can remove a connection you no longer need.
5. Review the setting for whether your interactions are used to train Meta's AI models. Meta says you can opt out. That choice is separate from giving Muse access to an email or calendar account, so check both.

Copy this first task

Enter this in Muse before connecting any private accounts:

Compare these three phone plans: [paste the three official plan links]. For each one, list the monthly price, required fees, contract length, and total first-month cost. Link to the page that supports each number. Do not sign in, enter payment details, or buy anything. If a price is missing, tell me what you could not confirm.

Once you know how the first task went, this is a draft-only email task:

Review the emails from the last seven days that need a reply. Group them by sender, summarize the request in one sentence, and draft a reply for each. Do not send, delete, archive, or unsubscribe. Ask before using another connected service.

One extra check on a Mac

If you install the Mac app, inspect System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access and Muse's Messages connection before granting access. An Inc. columnist reported seeing private-message content in Muse after believing he had not allowed it. Meta disputes unauthorized access and says reading Mac Messages requires both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector. The practical check is simple: leave both off unless reading your Messages is part of the job you want Muse to do.

Things to know

Meta says Muse asks before sensitive actions, shows an activity trail, and lets you change or disconnect a service. Its security explanation also says an agent can make mistakes and encounter malicious instructions on websites. One-time permissions and a checked first task make those mistakes easier to catch.

Muse has a free tier with usage limits and paid plans for more use. Check the plan shown in your account before starting a long job.

If something goes wrong

• A connection asks for more access than the job needs: stop there. Use a public-web task or a connection with narrower permissions.
• Muse gives a wrong price or summary: open the linked source or original message. Correct the task before granting more access.
• You chose Always allow by mistake: open the connection's permissions in Settings and revoke or narrow that grant.
• A task changed something you did not ask it to change: review the activity trail, disconnect the affected service, and check the original account directly.

Final check

Your first task has source links you can open, and Muse made no account changes. If you added a connector, its access matches the job, and the activity trail shows only actions you expected.