In this post One odd session

Following the name

The model catalogue

The Anthropic plumbing

Why ship all of this?

Is Meta distilling?

Closing thoughts

I found a model labeled azure/muse-special while Muse was building my website. So I dug deeper.

This is Part 2 of digging through the Muse filesystem after my article hit the front page of Hacker News this week.

In this article I focus on a model I found in my logs called muse-special , and confront the question: does Muse actually use OpenAI and Claude models behind the scenes?

One odd session

Muse records which model each agent session uses.

Nearly every session log in my VM was routed to Meta’s internal model, called Avocado.

But one subagent used a model named azure/muse-special .

Interesting...

Figure 1. Sessions in my VM grouped by model. Everything is Avocado except a single azure/muse-special session on September 21.…