Meta Muse adds school homework dates to a child’s calendar

A parent using the Hacker News handle fnordpiglet set Meta Muse up to check a school information system and related websites for homework, then copy due dates into a child’s calendar. The workflow adds a reminder the day before and includes a link back to the calendar entry. The author says they formally modeled the procedure and scheduled it to run daily, so the same routine could be repeated without re-prompting each time.

The account also makes the privacy trade-off explicit. The parent used Muse’s credential vault to access the school portal and says they accepted the information exposure because they felt the administrative burden outweighed the risk. They report that the setup was not bad, but the post describes a newly configured daily workflow; it does not establish long-term accuracy, show a comparison against the school portal, or say how missed or changed assignments are handled.

A useful adaptation is to have the agent collect due dates with source links and put them into a separate calendar for review. Before giving an agent access to a school account, decide what data can be exposed and check the first few runs manually. The suggested prompt below is editorial; the author did not share the exact procedure text.

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Suggested prompt (written by Agents In Use, not the author's)

Source: Hacker News · fnordpiglet