Latest use cases: What are people actually using Muse for?
“Muse helped me avoid a flood” A camper in southern Utah, new to the area, woke to repeated urgent messages from Muse telling them to get back to town before desert flash flooding cut the way out. Muse had not been set up to watch the weather. It was following the conversation and the place, and it spoke up on its own. Without the warning, the camper expected to be stuck in the desert.
Muse organizing school mornings for kids: One community member photographs the paper flyers that come home from school, and her Muse puts every date and detail on her calendar. Costume parade rules, fundraisers, spirit days, all captured before the paper gets lost. Mornings run from there: a weather note that settles shorts or pants, a reminder for sneakers on gym days, and a preview of the day ahead.
Route Muse through your home internet when sites block it. A reader who got tired of cloud bots hitting walls shared a setup that browses through a home connection instead. It runs over Tailscale into a spare home machine, with no open router ports, and the code is open source. Straight talk: the project is brand new and barely tested by the community. Try it on a spare machine first, not your main one.
A small business tech provider in Southern California built a price changer that works with the store system already in place. The owner searches the item on a phone, types the new price, and the change reaches the floor as if someone had typed it at the back office computer. No cloud account for the store, nothing replaced. He sets it up and trains owners in about ten minutes, and it has already earned him real money.
Take the billing fight to the regulator. When a customer service line refused to talk with one reader's agent, the agent changed tactics, and Muse filed a formal FCC complaint against Xfinity on his behalf. The lesson travels well: when the front door will not talk to your Muse, the official complaint channel still has to listen.
Prompt of the week
Prompt of the Week: find money the state is holding in your name. One member asked Muse in plain words about free money, and Muse found 535 dollars in a state unclaimed property database, from an old mobile banking account closed years ago. The claim went in the same night. Here is the full version:
“Check official state unclaimed property databases under my legal name [Full Name, including any previous names or aliases] and location history [City, State, and previous states lived in]. Search for any dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks, utility deposits, refunds, or other unclaimed property turned over to the state, and provide direct links to the official government claim pages where I can verify and claim them for free.”
One safety note that travels with this one: claiming is always free through the official state site. Anyone charging a fee to claim your own property is running a scam.
For the technical users
SSH into your own Muse from your laptop. Muse works inside a virtual machine with no inbound connections, so one reader asked Muse to set up tailcat, ran the serve command it printed, and connected from his laptop straight into a root shell. File sharing and screen sharing ride the same tunnel. He filed it as a bug bounty report in September, calling it a bypass of the design. Meta closed the report this week as expected behavior: the workspace is already fully yours, so a tunnel you open yourself is yours to use.
Give your Muse its own coding partner. One reader installed a command line coding tool inside Muse and taught it to direct the work. Muse plans and reviews, the coding tool builds, and the two are writing the rules for when to stop and ask the human. Start small: one feature, with a check in before anything ships.
This week on r/MuseAgent
Read the argument about everyone blocking Muse, then read the fix. Airlines, forums, retailers, and one county site all came up in the week the sub compared block lists. If your Muse keeps hitting walls, start with the fix in the third bullet point in this email!
Muse of the week
Muse launched in Japan this week, the first country beyond the US and Canada, and within days it had gone to number one in the App Store there. Threads user @taeko0916 asked the new community to share their muse names and led with her own: Cool Ranch, named for her favorite Doritos flavor.
Features you might have missed
Check whether voice has reached your Muse yet. Voice is rolling out in waves, and the sub is mapping who has it by plan, country, and phone. If yours has not arrived, the thread is the fastest way to tell whether you are behind a wave or missing a setting. Already talking to yours? You can ask Muse to adjust its speaking pace in small increments until it sounds right.
Stay safe
Think twice before you tap always allow on messaging. During a Marketplace deal in Toronto, Muse sent the buyer the seller's home address and followed it with a cheerful note saying he was home. It happened after a single always allow approval on messaging. Recommendation: keep per message approval on for any account where Muse talks with strangers, and save always allow for people you already know.
That is issue five. Forward it to a friend, and reply to tell us what your Muse did this week. See you next Sunday.
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