Meta's Muse checks a training run and locks the Mac remotely — agent-computer control is mostly permissions work
OldChemical3853 · reddit · 2026-09-25
A developer built a small bridge so Meta's Muse agent can act on his Mac from his phone, and recorded a real session: Muse reads the Terminal, reports the epoch, loss and accuracy of a running training job, then locks the machine on request.
His takeaway: the hard part of letting agents reach your actual computer is permissions, not intelligence — per-action consent, small window captures instead of a live feed, and rejecting stale observations before any input.
The post doubles as promotion for a free beta, but the demo shows what agent-on-real-computer control looks like in practice and where the engineering effort goes.
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