
Muse connectors decoded: Meta's directory vs open MCP
Meta opened Muse connectors to developers on 18 September and logged more than 1,500 applications in under a week, then named Walmart, Sephora, Shop Pay, PayPal, GitHub and Notion among the next partners. The directory is a Meta-reviewed channel with an unpublished fee, custom connectors are unreviewed, and MCP is the durable integration to build first, before you fill in the Muse form.

Meta Muse: the first mass-market personal agent, decoded
Meta's Muse hit number one on the US App Store ten days after its 8 September launch, with 2.8 million global installs by day twelve, by giving every user a dedicated cloud VM that browses, books and buys on their behalf. The architecture (Secure VM, a separate Sentinel approval agent, secrets hidden from the model, one-time Stripe cards) is now the consumer baseline, and the business model is a cut of every transaction.