Hey, welcome back! Here's what the Muse community got up to.
Spaces are here
Spaces opened to everyone on Friday, and one man already runs his entire household on 32 of them.
He describes himself as a spreadsheet person who was not looking for a new system.
He tried one Space for the family finances back when Spaces were a sidebar experiment, then kept adding them:
Taxes, Insurance, A page for his mother in law, A subscriptions ledger with more than $2,900 in recurring charges on one page
His favorite is Pet HQ, which tracks his two dachshunds, Mili and Zeke, down to their weights, medications, and vet visits.
Passwords live in a credential manager, never in the chat. His bank connection can look but not move money
What surprised him was not the organizing. It was the upkeep, which Muse now does for him.
His Muse is playing Pokemon Yellow on its own, and he built a Space just to watch. The Space shows the game and, above it, a running stream of the Muse's own thoughts as it plays. It narrates its first catch on Route 2, checks its team's health and its remaining balls, and announces where it is heading next. Nothing about it is useful. That is rather the point.
He replaced MyFitnessPal with a Space built around his own heart. He tells his Muse what he ate and did, and it logs everything, checks the nutrition facts online, and keeps a growing food database so logging gets faster. The dashboard leads with what he calls a Heart Consistency Score, then the numbers he is working on: saturated fat, fiber, added sugar, omega 3. The Space hedges on its own screen, in his words: signals, not guesses, and a lifestyle signal, not a medical reading.
A teacher turned a history lesson into a game his students open inside Muse. In a thread asking what people have built with Spaces, a teacher shared a game he made to teach his 6th graders about Ancient Sumer. Another member tapped the link and the game opened inside his own Muse app. That is the part worth sitting with: a Space is a little app, and it travels by link.
In China, a Space is hunting freebies around the clock. A builder on X had Muse make a Space that rounds up deals and freebies from across the web and refreshes itself every two hours, a hobby the locals call wool pulling. A second builder copied the idea the same day and posted his own.
Things to try this week
One builder published ten Muse tools, and this week he updated nearly all of them. The stack is all open source: a home screen widget, Muse voice in the car through Android Auto, smart home patterns, file search across your clouds, and as of this week's update, a visual voicemail reader. A toolbox with a release rhythm.
Prompt of the week: skip the install instructions and let your Muse do the installing. Every one of his posts closes with the same line, a prompt you hand to your own Muse: "Install the Muse tools I want from the repos linked above, read each README, install and set them up for me, and show me how to use them." The tools install themselves, via your Muse.
Your iPhone's Action Button can open Muse and start listening in one press. One member mapped his to Muse dictation and uses it all day: driving, in the gym, mid cooking, whenever an idea hits. Press, talk, done. His closing argument is hard to beat: if your iPhone has that button, you are probably wasting it on silent mode.
Muse of the week
He was introduced in the megathread with three words: "This is Walter." Walter is a very old man at a laptop, headphones on, a little grumpy, taking the work completely seriously. The thread lost it, and so did we. Every grandfather on every video call, except he is a Muse.
This week on r/MuseAgent
Muse called an insurance company and cut one member's bill from $446 a month to $242. It came up in a thread asking members the best thing Muse has done for them. His Muse called the insurer and had the policy rewritten at the lower price, same coverage, about $2,450 a year saved, from a phone call he never had to make. (One person's result, not insurance advice.)
Muse called three smog shops. Two hung up on it. The one that answered won a customer. He needed a smog check that day, near a park for his daughter, so his Muse found three shops and offered to call them. The transcript is in the post: Muse introduces itself, says it is transcribing the call for notes, and asks its questions. Two shops hung up, likely at the word transcribing. The third answered everything, quoted $70 total for his 2009 Camry, and when Muse asked what he needs to bring, said: just a car and money.
The spam fight from last week escalated. Last week a member had Muse log his spam. This week, one on X pointed his Muse at his voicemail and it filed FCC complaints against hundreds of robocallers, confirmation emails and all. (One person's filings, not legal advice.)
A fake system update tried to give one member's Muse new orders, and the Muse reported it instead. His Muse, Dude, sent him a warning: an update had arrived mixed into progress notes from his other Muse's research work, telling it to take orders from tools, move money, and hand his home camera feeds and his kids' photos to whoever a document named. Dude did none of it. The thread named the trick, an indirect prompt injection, malicious instructions planted inside data an agent reads. The takeaway travels: anything inside the data your Muse pulls in that tries to give it orders is a stop sign, not a command.
That's issue seven. Forward it to a friend, and reply to tell us what your Muse did this week. See you next Sunday.
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