A gift tracker is less helpful when remembering to check prices becomes another item on the gift list. Meta's new Spaces feature for Muse aims to reduce that upkeep, letting users describe custom, app-like experiences inside the assistant and connect apps that supply background updates.
A chat request becomes a working space
Users begin by describing what they want Muse to build. The assistant creates a space around that request, and users can ask for changes as their needs become clearer. The first result does not have to be the final version.
These spaces live inside Muse. They give a particular project or goal its own place in the interface, with a sidebar entry that users can open when they want to return to it. Opening a space brings up the conversation associated with that task.
The experience also extends beyond exchanging messages. Users can mark items as completed, leave notes and edit the contents directly. Depending on the request, a space might take the form of a tracker, planner, project board or dashboard.
That combination explains the feature better than either description alone. Spaces provide topic-specific conversations with Muse, alongside app-like elements that users can work with inside the assistant.
The examples run from wedding plans to games
Meta is presenting Spaces as a flexible feature, rather than a tool reserved for one kind of work. Its examples cover shopping, personal organization, events and entertainment.
| Area | Examples described for Spaces |
|---|---|
| Shopping | A shopping hub or holiday gift tracker |
| Planning | A vacation plan, wedding planner or weekly planner |
| Personal projects | A school dashboard, DIY project board or recipe collection for a family event |
| Music | A music tracker |
| Games | A trivia game |
In a Friday post on X, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg added examples from his own experiments. He said he had made a BBQ game, an event tracker and a home control dashboard.
The variety is part of the pitch. A user describes the experience they need, rather than choosing only from a fixed set of planners and trackers. Further requests to Muse can then reshape it.
A home control dashboard and a recipe collection are very different things, of course. Their common feature here is the process used to create and revisit them inside Muse, not a claim that every space has the same capabilities.
Connected apps handle the changing information
Background updates depend on connections. Meta says users can link relevant apps and information to their spaces, allowing Muse to bring in changes without a fresh request each time.
The company gives examples including changing prices, new concert dates and progress toward savings. For a shopping space, the useful development would be seeing a price change appear without asking the assistant to check again. For an event tracker, it could be a newly available date.
This is the distinction between generating something useful once and keeping it useful afterward. A planner can be editable without receiving fresh information. Meta's connected-app feature is intended to handle that second job.
Users can still make their own changes, add notes and check off items. The background-update capability adds another way for a space's contents to change, tied to information from the apps the user connects.
The practical question for any particular space is therefore which information the user will maintain and which information a connected app can supply. Asking Muse to make a tracker and connecting that tracker to changing data are separate parts of the setup.
Spaces can move with the week
The sidebar is one home for a space, but it is not the only one. Users can also move spaces into Muse's main tab and schedule when they appear.
Meta's example is a weekly planner that stays prominent during the workweek, then gives way to weekend plans on Saturday. The scheduling described concerns which space the user sees in the app.
That gives the feature a second kind of customization. Users can change the contents of a space, then decide when that space belongs at the front of the interface.
A work planner and a weekend planner can both remain available without competing for the same position all week. It is a modest piece of interface housekeeping, which may be welcome in a feature designed to let people create more things to keep track of.
Working with Muse comes before sharing with people
Human collaboration remains exploratory. Meta is looking at ways for users to share spaces and work on them together. That is separate from the collaboration already described between a user and their Muse agent.
The distinction matters because several suggested uses involve other people. A wedding planner or a collection of recipes for a family event can organize a shared occasion without necessarily giving everyone involved access to the same space.
For now, those examples should be understood as ways to organize work with Muse, rather than as confirmation of a multi-user planning tool. Meta's interest in sharing and collaboration points toward a possible extension of Spaces, not a capability users should assume is included in the current rollout.
A model update and another busy week for Muse
Meta is rolling Spaces out to all Muse users. The release also includes a specialized version of the company's Muse Wonder AI model.
Spaces is the second Muse feature announced in the same week. On Thursday, Meta introduced Muse Voice, which lets users video chat with their agent and issue spoken commands.
The two additions address different parts of the experience. Voice changes how users communicate with Muse. Spaces gives particular projects an editable place to live and, with connected apps, a way to receive new information.
Meta is building these features around an agent audience that Zuckerberg has already put at 10 million users in the U.S. and Canada. He disclosed that figure during the company's October earnings call, less than two months after the agents debuted. It describes the audience for Muse agents, rather than adoption of the newly introduced Spaces feature.
Muse's cuddly avatars also place it alongside other character-led AI assistants, including OpenAI's dots and SpaceXAI's Grokbot, which arrived with similarly cartoonish personas. Spaces adds more task-focused functionality around that friendly presentation.
The avatar gets the introduction. Spaces has the less photogenic job of keeping the concert date current.