Cline (@cline) “We tried using Meta's new Muse Code agent, but it has a bug that doesn't let it” — TopicDigg

We tried using Meta's new Muse Code agent, but it has a bug that doesn't let it sign in from a docker container. So we did a fun experiment: Meta claims Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with their Muse agent harness. So we extracted instructions from their system prompt and added them to the Cline harness. TL;DR of this special prompting: - Trust source code over the user prompt, so read every call site and existing tests before starting the task - Weigh edge and error cases as heavily as the happy path - Always reproduce the bug before fixing - Don't trust the first passing test suite, and verify suspicious looking half-baked tests - Never stop at just editing, keep working until the change is verified complete. We then asked this modified harness to fix a real bug from our repo, and compared the results to the original Cline agent harness. Results: - Used 2.7x fewer tokens (19.7M → 7.2M) - Finished 2x faster (49min → 24min) - Cost 2.4x less ($7.69 → $3.25) Same Muse Spark 1.2 model, same task, only the prompting changed. Incredible how much of a performance gain Meta was able to achieve training it on these special instructions!