I spent a few hours putting Meta’s Muse, its new personal AI agent, through a real first-pass test: onboarding, calendar management, goal setting, a one-shot family morning newsletter, browser-based shopping, and the animated avatar that honestly surprised me.
What you’ll learn:
- Why Muse is the best-designed personal agent I’ve tested, and what specifically made it feel that way
- The one-shot family PDF Muse produced that Claude and Codex never quite nailed
- How Muse’s permission model works, and why it’s different from every other agent I’ve used
- Why I set up a sleep training goal in Muse, and what it revealed about agent tone
- The activity feed feature I immediately wished Codex and Claude Code had
- Where Muse failed, and what it says about the limits of this category right now
- The animated avatar decision that showed me what top-of-craft AI product design actually looks like
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) What Muse is and who it’s actually built for
(04:41) Signing in and the onboarding flow
(07:16) The activity feed and its task lineage
(08:24) First real task: managing the family calendar and deleting soccer practice
(09:48) Requesting a morning newsletter PDF
(14:29) The personalized news feed and how I set it up
(16:05) The “Ideas” feature as an out-of-the-box prompt library
(17:10) Setting up personal goals (water, shoes, and sleep training)
(21:40) Library: documents, websites, images, videos, and podcasts
(23:11) Quick recap and what I love
(23:56) Activity feed design deep dive: tool calls and step-by-step lineage
(25:18) How Muse handles permissions
(26:12) The animated avatar: Polly becomes Slime, the teal dragon
(29:34) Browser use test: shopping for New Balance 9060s (not great)
(31:15) Browser use test 2: buying IMAX tickets for The Odyssey (much better)
(33:34) TL;DR and what I’ll actually use Muse for going forward
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Tools referenced:
• Muse: muse.ai
• Stripe Link (payment method featured in Muse): link.com
• 1Password (future Muse integration mentioned): 1password.com
• OpenClaw (Claire’s previous personal agent setup): openclaw.ai
• Grok Bot (Grok-based agent from prior stack): x.ai
• Codex (OpenAI coding agent, comparison point): openai.com
• NotebookLM (Google, comparison to Muse’s podcast generation): notebooklm.google.com
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Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: chatprd.ai
Website: clairevo.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com
X: x.com
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