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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

5:11 AM IST · August 6, 2026

Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance with complex tasks across large software code bases. Muse Code, which is currently available in beta, can accomplish “complete software engineering tasks across large repos,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saidin a social mediapost on Wednesday. Those tasks include “planning changes, writing code, validating the results,” he added. Code, which can be installed with a single command, is powered by Meta’s previously released coding model, Muse Spark. It handles large projects by launching its own agents, which then work simultaneously. “When a job is big enough, it fans out to separate sub-agents working in parallel in isolated worktrees,” Zuckerberg explained. “Your working copy is never touched. In testing we had it build six features for a game simultaneously with no collisions.” The move attempts to position Meta more competitively, and more affordably, with AI lab peers like OpenAI and its coding agent Codex, and Anthropic with Claude Code. “We think that for a lot of workflows and a lot of use cases, this can be an incredibly good option, especially from a cost perspective,” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s AI chief who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs,toldthe Wall Street Journal. Meta has been attempting to grow its AI presence bypouring moneyinto development. In June, it expanded beyond its core focus of using AI to support its advertising business andentered the enterprise AI marketwith an agent aimed at customer service and support.