Muse is here. Can you see what it's doing on your site? Fullstory can.

Muse is here. Can you see what it’s doing on your site? Fullstory can.

Agents don’t always say they’re agents. But their behavior does.

I recently did some analysis for my company, Fullstory, on a new kind of visitor: autonomous computer-use agents. I handed one of them, Muse, a real errand on a mock shopping site: buy fruit for a 20-kid halftime snack, delivered by Friday. It searched, compared, and filled a cart. Then I ran the same errand myself, like a good parent, so I could compare.

I figured spotting Muse would be easy. But Muse never introduced itself. No user agent string giving it away, no label announcing it was autonomous. I had to let its behavior do the talking. The article walks through which signals came up short, what finally told the agent apart from a person, and how you can start looking for agents on your own site. The agents may be quiet, but the data isn’t.

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