Wes Bos tears down Meta Muse: agents can zip the whole /opt/ dir, far more open than expected
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-26
Developer Wes Bos published a thread dissecting Meta's Muse agent, concluding it is far more open than expected and can handle almost any task, not a crippled assistant.
Key findings:
- Users can ask Muse to zip and hand over everything in /opt/
- 70 preinstalled Skills and CLIs, from Spotify to Instagram CLI
- Built-in Spaces web builder using TanStack, Bun and Tailwind, auto-deploys to Cloudflare
- Can install arbitrary software, even a Torrent client
- Ships with its own Muse DB plus a query Skill for memory and past conversations, with strict safety limits
- Unreleased Muse Mail gives it a dedicated inbox and email sending
Other details from the thread: Muse's websearch blocks a list of 295 news sites it refuses to scrape, other blocklists cover 2M+ domains (mostly phishing but including some notable ones), and the Instagram Skill explicitly forbids finding or identifying people by face.
Related event: Developer Wes Bos Tears Down Meta's Muse: Far More Open Than Expected(10 posts)→
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