Meta's Muse agent got a face named Jolly and a keychain gadget, and its safety design got less attention
Meta's Muse agent can email, book travel and fill out forms, and Meta Connect added a digital avatar, smart-glasses support and a wearable due in December.
In brief
Meta's Muse agent now has a face named Jolly
Muse can email, book travel and fill out forms. A keychain device is promised for December, while Meta says a Sentinel agent guards its actions.
Before you trust an AI agent with your email and your shopping, it helps to know how it is fenced in. Meta's Muse is a personal agent that acts for you: it can send emails, book travel, open a browser, fill out forms and negotiate on your behalf. Meta's own launch post says so. Meta introduced it on September 8, 2026.
Why a friendly face matters
A cute mascot is easy to love, but the thing behind it can touch your email, calendar and payments.
A cute mascot is easy to love. But the thing behind it can touch your email, calendar and payments. That is the part worth your attention.
Meta's post describes the safeguards. Muse runs on Muse Secure VM, a dedicated virtual computer in the cloud that holds the agent and your data. Think of it as a locked room that only your agent uses. A second program, called Sentinel, sits on that machine, and Muse can only get online with its approval.
Muse is also designed to pause and ask you before it sends an email or makes a purchase. For payments it can use Link, built by Stripe, which issues a card good for a single purchase, so the number of your actual card is never exposed.
The face and the gadget
At Meta Connect, Meta gave this software a face. TechCrunch reports that Muse users will soon be able to create a digital avatar for their agent and video chat with it live. A new model, Muse Realtime Avatar, powers the feature. According to Mark Zuckerberg, the agent's physical avatar is named Jolly.
Meta also showed Muse Charm, a palm-sized device that fits on a keychain. It has a small screen showing the avatar. Tap the fingerprint sensor and you can talk without unlocking a phone. TechCrunch compares its feel to a Tamagotchi.
Sources disagree on its status. TechCrunch says it is not ready to ship, and that Zuckerberg promised delivery for the holidays in December. Other coverage describes it as already released.
What comes next
Muse will also come to Meta's smart glasses, activated by a wake word. Zuckerberg said Muse is free for a large number of tokens, the small units AI services count, and that Meta expects to take a small fee from transactions over time.
Sources also differ on the launch story. Meta dates it to September 8, while some coverage ties Muse's debut to Connect. TechCrunch says it launched in early September.
The limits: the digital avatar is still described as coming soon, and Muse Charm had not shipped when TechCrunch reported. The sources do not show independent tests of Muse's security design, only Meta's description of it.