Meta Muse Prompts: 28 Things to Try That Real Users Got Working

The Meta Muse prompts that work best give the agent a goal, hard limits and an approval rule, then let it run. "Negotiate my internet bill and accept any offer under $70" finished. "Find me a cheaper controller" returned nothing. Below are 28 prompts modeled on real results from our catalog, grouped by use case, plus the ones that failed.

Every prompt here links to the build it came from, so you can check what actually happened. The wording is ours, shaped from each user's description, unless it's in quotes. Results are as reported by the people who ran them.

Bills and money prompts

These are the most reliable category in the catalog, because the goal (a lower number) is easy for the agent to check.

1. "Call [provider] and negotiate my bill. Accept any offer under $[X] a month." Chandra Bhavanasi gave exactly that kind of ceiling and got AT&T fiber cut from $80 to $40 plus three months free. Basil got Spectrum from $75 to $40.
2. "Go through six months of email receipts and list every recurring charge I might not be using." This found a forgotten $100/month subscription, $1,200 a year.
3. "Pull the itemized bills from my provider portal and question every line." Holdy reports this found double billing and saved over $4,000 on medical bills.
4. "Search every state I've lived in for unclaimed money and fill in the claim forms." Lincoln found over $800 in about 10 minutes.
5. "Map my five credit cards' rewards against my regular bills and tell me which card to use for each." This one saved at least $1,000, per the author.
6. "Check whether I can appeal my property tax." Muse found a primary home registered as a second home and filed for a $600 refund.

Shopping prompts

Shopping is where Muse is weakest right now. Amazon has blocked it since September 20 (GeekWire), and other retailers block it too.

7. "Lowball every Marketplace seller with a [model] until one accepts under $[X]." señor jingu says Muse messaged about 50 sellers and found a new M5 Pro MacBook Pro for $2,500.
8. "Here are six photos with prices and condition. List them all on Marketplace." Angus Hardy-Francis does half a dozen listings in minutes.
9. "Compare prices at three shops for this model number and get install quotes." A dying water heater ended up at $1,450 instead of $2,300.
10. "Photograph what's missing from this fridge versus this one and order it on Instacart." Tyler's office fridge restock worked from two photos.

Travel prompts

11. "Plan my first trip to [country], buy the train tickets, book the busy restaurants and put it all in my calendar." Lyn Loi's Japan trip took about 10 minutes.
12. "Check on my airline refund, and keep checking daily until it lands." Muse opened a live chat with Delta and confirmed $1,017.60 was on its way.
13. "File my delayed baggage claim. Here are the receipts and the reference number." Maruthi's United claim paid out within days.
14. "Find the cheapest way to get my rental car from [A] to [B]." Erik Lammerding got a ferry that saved $2,200 in drop-off fees.

Errands and forms prompts

15. "Book a barber under $50, Sunday 11:30am, no fades, checked against Google and Reddit reviews." Ahmed Yasser's constraint-heavy prompt booked in one go.
16. "Handle my son's school consent forms. Walk me through each question before you submit." Done in about 10 minutes from the couch.
17. "File pothole repair requests with the county for these locations." About 30 seconds. The potholes were fixed five days later.
18. "Email every data broker you can find and ask them to remove me." Cuth says this used about 2% of his free weekly usage.
19. "Renew my passport online." Cyrus reports Muse did about 95% of it with a browser handoff for the rest.

Calendar and email prompts

20. "Here's my calendar, my email and my kids' schedules. Make a one-page family plan for the week." The How I AI review got a one-shot family PDF it called better-looking than Claude's.
21. "Email every partner with an unpaid invoice and follow up until they pay." Manik Sharma calls his Muse head of accounts receivable.
22. "Compare last year's tax folder with this year's, pull what's missing from email and portals, and save it to Drive." Bill D'Alessandro's tax prep got about 90% of the way.

Research prompts

23. "Search every county records site for [criteria] and match the results to homes for sale." Bryan's Muse ran for 4 days across 3,000 sites.
24. "Find credit cards with no balance transfer fee." It surfaced several credit union cards.
25. "How much have I spent on [thing] this year?" A small one, with a sobering answer on limes.

Connector prompts

26. "Build yourself a connector for [service]'s API." Danny's Muse built a Strava connector so his race plan updates after each run. A TickTick integration took five minutes. See how custom connectors work.
27. "Screen my unread Instagram DMs and summarize them, but leave them unread." It reported on 50 threads without marking any read.

Mac prompts

Muse for Mac is ten days old and the catalog has few user results yet. Meta's own examples at launch were organizing downloads, finding lost files and summarizing messages and notes. Each app (Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, iMessage) can be set to Off, Read only, or Read and interact (Meta help).

28. "Find the files I need for [task] in my Downloads and Documents, and summarize this week's messages about it." Start on Read only. The Mac app runs on Apple silicon only, per the author of a remote-control bridge for Intel Macs. More in Muse for Mac.

Which Muse prompts don't work?

These failed or stalled. The pattern is useful.

Prompt	What happened	Why
Coupon and promo code sweep	Results "didn't yield the most trustworthy results"	Open web, nothing to verify against (Tom's Guide)
Set a max budget (cheaper controller)	"Produced nothing at all"	Same source
Marketplace local sofa deals	Untrustworthy results	Same source
Price-drop watch on an Xbox Series S	"Produced nothing at all"	Same source
Buy a common thermostat	Walmart, Amazon and Best Buy blocked it	Retailer blocks; only the maker's site, 20% dearer
Negotiate Xfinity by phone	Stuck on a verification text, patched the user in	Muse can't read your SMS codes
Sort 40k Google Photos	Failed (18 Spotify playlists worked)	Job too big for one run
Book 10 startup demo slots	Found two	Supply didn't exist
Buy a domain and set redirects	Purchase worked, redirects didn't stick	Muse reported success it didn't verify

Elton Jones at Tom's Guide ran seven shopping prompts on September 26 and three worked: a baseline deal hunt (a Batman omnibus at $74.99), a cross-store comparison (a DualSense at $67.61 on Walmart) and an open-box search (a used game on eBay at $54.99).

How do you write a Muse prompt that finishes?

Five habits show up again and again in the prompts above that worked.

1. State the finish line as a number or a thing. "Under $70 a month," "two orchestra seats," "a PDF." Open goals like "save money" produce suggestions, not results.
2. Give pre-approval with a ceiling. The AT&T prompt authorized "any offer under $70." Without a ceiling Muse stops to ask, and the call ends.
3. Say where to stop. "Walk me through each question before you submit" kept the school forms right. Purchases need your approval anyway, so plan for one tap.
4. Pack the constraints into one message. The barber prompt had price, time, style and review sources. Muse didn't have to come back with questions.
5. Make long jobs resumable. The 77k Instagram story census saves cursor state every 10 pages, so a quota wall doesn't cost the whole run. See reducing agent costs.

And check what it tells you. The Namecheap redirect and the Stripe Link checkout that picked expedited shipping are both cases where watching the result caught a mistake. For a longer list, Matt Schlicht's 50 prompts thread drew about 8.8K bookmarks. For more worked examples, browse the errands shelf.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best Meta Muse prompts to start with?

Start with a bill negotiation with a price ceiling, a receipt audit for forgotten subscriptions, and an unclaimed money search. They have clear finish lines and have worked for several users in our catalog, with results from $48 found to $1,200 a year saved.

What can I ask Meta Muse to do?

Muse can call companies, fill forms, book travel and appointments, compare prices, send email, build connectors to other services and, with approval, buy things. It works best on tasks with a checkable result and struggles with open-ended deal hunting.

Why did my Muse prompt not work?

Common causes are retailer blocks (Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy have all stopped it), SMS verification codes it can't read, jobs too large for one run, and vague goals. Add a number to the goal and a stop point, and split big jobs.

Does Muse need my approval to buy things?

Yes. Meta's security design requires human approval for purchases and for checkout pages with saved payment details. You can pre-authorize a ceiling in the prompt, but the payment step still asks you.

Are there Muse prompts for Mac?

Yes, but results are early. Muse for Mac can work with files, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders and Messages, each set to Off, Read only or Read and interact. Start with read-only summary and file-finding tasks.