Your First 5 Tasks to Give Muse

Meta launched Muse on September 8, 2026, as a personal AI agent: software that completes tasks on your behalf instead of only answering questions. It runs on its own cloud computer, uses a real browser, and connects to apps you already use. Meta’s pitch is that it “doesn’t just answer questions, it actually does the work.”

Setup takes minutes. The harder part is knowing what to hand it. Start with small, low-stakes tasks where a mistake is cheap and the result is easy to check. These five are beginner-friendly, each teaches a different delegation skill, and every capability mentioned below comes from Meta’s own announcements or published documentation.

Set your ground rules first

Three things to confirm before delegating anything. Connect one app to start: turn connectors on under Settings, then Connectors, or just ask Muse to connect an account. Decide what it may do without asking: Meta says Muse checks before sensitive actions like sending an email or making a purchase, and the Sentinel permission system keeps read and write access separate. And check the training setting: Meta uses eligible interaction data for model training by default, with an opt-out switch in Settings.

Now give it something real. A good task brief has three parts: the outcome, your constraints, and the approval checkpoint. The examples below follow that shape.

Task 1: Buy something you have been comparison-shopping

Muse can browse retailers, compare prices, and complete a purchase through Shop Pay checkout. Tell it the item, the budget, the delivery deadline, and that nothing gets bought until you say so.

Find the best price for [product]. Compare it across at least three retailers and show me the options with links. Do not buy anything until I pick one.

This teaches you the approval model. Purchases require your sign-off, so a shopping task is the safest way to watch Muse handle money before it handles bigger decisions.

Task 2: Triage your inbox

Connect your email and give Muse read access first. Meta documents read and send permissions as separate controls, so you can let it read without letting it send.

Go through my unread email from the last 48 hours. Summarize what needs a reply, flag anything time-sensitive, and draft replies for me to approve. Do not send anything.

Muse also has an email address of its own, so you can forward messages to it or copy it on a thread. Inbox triage is a good read-only task: nothing leaves your account unless you approve the draft.

Task 3: Research a trip

Booking travel was one of Meta’s launch examples, and travel services are among Muse’s announced connections. Keep the first version research-only.

Research a three-day trip to [city] on [dates]. Find three hotel options under $200 a night near downtown and flights under $400. Summarize them in a table with links. Do not book anything yet.

This teaches bounded research: a clear budget, a clear deliverable, and a hard stop before any reservation happens. When the research is good, a later version of the same task can include booking with your approval.

Task 4: Turn saved recipes into a grocery list

This one is straight from Meta’s launch examples: Muse can turn saved Instagram recipes into a grocery list.

Take the recipes I have saved recently and turn them into one grocery list, grouped by store section. Skip anything I would already have as a pantry staple.

This teaches personal context. Once an agent can see what you have saved, liked, or subscribed to, its output stops being generic. The list is easy to verify, too: you know what is in your pantry.

Task 5: Audit one bill

Negotiating bills was another of Meta’s advertised capabilities at launch, and it is one of the most documented real-world uses of the agent. One video creator, Peter Yang, claims Muse saved him more than $800 a year across ten real-world workflows, including calling providers to negotiate.

Review my last internet bill. Compare my plan against the provider’s current advertised plans and tell me whether I am overpaying, with the actual numbers.

This teaches a different kind of trust: Muse can contact a company and negotiate on your behalf, but it needs your approval and your account details first. Start with the audit, where the deliverable is just a number, before you ask it to make the call.

The $800-a-year figure is the creator's own claim from his video; All Things Muse did not independently verify it.

What the five have in common

Each task follows the same shape: a specific outcome, stated constraints, and an approval checkpoint before anything irreversible. That shape is the whole skill of delegating to an agent. As you get comfortable, the tasks get longer and the approvals get fewer, but the shape stays.

Once these five run well, widen the circle: connect the apps where your work actually lives, and hand over jobs that span more than one of them. The agent earns its access one completed task at a time.