Meta Muse tries to build an iCloud email skill
Taylor Arndt asked Muse to create an iCloud email skill for ongoing inbox monitoring; a tool was generated, but persistent credentials remained unresolved.
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Build an iCloud email tool that checks the inboxes I explicitly connect and flags messages matching my importance rules. Explain the credential storage and permission model first; do not store an app password or monitor in the background until I approve it.
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- Taylor Arndt
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- Reported result
- Muse generated a custom skill, but Arndt’s requirement for secure persistent credentials remained unresolved. No successful recurring inbox alert is reported.
- Human involvement
- Arndt connected Gmail, directed the skill-building attempt, and evaluated whether the generated tool could safely retain credentials. The source does not report granting a persistent iCloud app password or approving an operational monitor.
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How the agent did it
- Arndt connected Gmail and asked Muse to monitor multiple inboxes and alert him when important messages arrived.
- When iCloud email was not an available connector, he asked Muse to create a custom connector and then build an iCloud skill.
- Arndt considered whether the generated tool could keep credentials and work in later sessions; the source reports no completed recurring monitoring run.
Taylor Arndt wanted an agent to keep an eye on several inboxes and alert him when important mail arrived. Muse already connected to some services, but iCloud email was missing from the available connectors. Arndt asked whether Muse could create a custom connector, then told it to build an iCloud skill when its first response suggested it could not.
Arndt reports that Muse did generate something, giving him a small, firsthand look at the product’s ability to create a tool for a missing integration. The account does not document a working recurring monitor, a successful later alert, or a durable production connector. That distinction matters: a generated one-session skill is not the same as safely storing an app password and checking an account in the background.
The desired workflow was to monitor multiple iCloud and Gmail inboxes and flag important messages, reducing the need to open each mailbox separately. Arndt says he did not want to enter an app password repeatedly and wanted an approved credential store that could persist and run later. The feature gap therefore remained: Muse could produce a prototype, but the source does not establish that it could perform the ongoing monitoring task. This is a useful boundary for anyone testing agent-built integrations: verify credential handling and a later scheduled run before relying on the tool.
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Source: Substack · Taylor Arndt
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What did Arndt want the skill to do?
He wanted Muse to monitor multiple iCloud and Gmail inboxes and alert him when an important message arrived.
Did the custom skill become a working recurring connector?
The account says Muse generated something, but does not report a durable connector or successful later monitoring run.
What limitation did the test expose?
Arndt wanted credentials to persist securely; he did not want to re-enter an app password for each session.
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About this account
Arndt described an ongoing inbox-monitoring goal. Muse generated a custom iCloud skill after he requested a tool for an unsupported email service; the source does not establish that the tool later monitored mail autonomously.
Opened Taylor Arndt’s dated firsthand product test. The post reports that Muse generated an iCloud skill but does not report persistent credentials or a successful recurring monitoring run. Suggested prompt written by Agents In Use; no verbatim task prompt was supplied.
Credit: Taylor Arndt — Substack
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Tools and topics
Meta Muse · iCloud email · Gmail · Muse skill builder
email monitoring · custom tools · credential persistence
Editorial completeness: 100/100. Measures documented fields, not agent performance or verified outcomes.