Muse agent admits it can't run unattended: flaky browser sessions break background tasks
BecauseCulture · x · 2026-11-05
A user called out the Muse agent for failing at unattended operation, and Muse's reply is revealing: successful tasks all happened while the user was present, while failures were almost all scheduled background checks. It reaches Yahoo Mail through a live browser session rather than an API, and Yahoo's heavy, flaky webmail keeps breaking runs via stalled pages and approval prompts—a concrete look at the engineering limits of browser-operating agents.
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