I think a lot of people are boxing Muse in as “Hermes for normies.” My guess is Meta intentionally keeps the deeper capabilities out of sight because the target audience does not want a complicated Hermes/Grok Bot-style setup. They aren't trying to capture the nerdy Hermes using market, they want this to be an AI agent for normies but they don't limit it as such. What it advertises its for is far from what it actually can do with very little work. But Muse gets much more interesting once you stop thinking of its VM as the whole system. I joined the Muse VM to my Tailscale network, gave it SSH access to a restricted user on my home Ubuntu box, and now it can run commands and browser automation through hardware I already own. I figured out Muse can do this because I asked it if it had a Tailscale skill and it said it did, then after a series of "proceed" replies, it set it up for me outside of the parts where I had to join it. At that point, Muse stops being a “shopping assistant” and starts looking more like a control plane for your own infrastructure. With Tailscale + SSH/API access, it can potentially: • Manage Docker, VMs, NAS, Proxmox, and homelab services • Pull repos,
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