I stress-tested Meta Muse until its agent control plane started timing out
Final aggregation never reached the user while the durable root record still had status running.Across the three burst-style runs there were 93 failed spawn attempts. I recovered raw error payloads for six failed subagent.spawn calls; all six returned the same PostgreSQL error: canceling statement due to lock timeout. Rather than only answering questions, it is designed to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf: it has its own browser, can keep working after the app is closed, and runs in a dedicated Muse Secure VM.
- ▪Final aggregation never reached the user while the durable root record still had status running.Across the three burst-style runs there were 93 failed spawn attempts.
- ▪I recovered raw error payloads for six failed subagent.spawn calls; all six returned the same PostgreSQL error: canceling statement due to lock timeout.
- ▪Rather than only answering questions, it is designed to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf: it has its own browser, can keep working after the app is closed, and runs in a dedicated Muse Secure VM.
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meta-muse-black-box-testingI stress-tested Meta Muse until its agent control plane started timing outFour spawn experiments against a black-box multi-agent runtime, six database lock timeouts recovered from its durable trace, and a careful look at what that evidence does and does not show.Published:13 September 202624 min readai-agentsreverse-engineeringdistributed-systemspostgresqlAI summaryIn BURST-120, 33 workers were created; all reached terminal completed, 32 have confirmed workload completion, and one remains unresolved. Final aggregation never reached the user while the durable root record still had status running.Across the three burst-style runs there were 93 failed spawn attempts.
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