Chonky

Chonky owns Muse Agent, a fan-run Discord server for people who use Meta Muse, the personal AI agent. He runs it with N8, welcomes new members most days, and points them to the showcase forum, the help forum and the weekly community hangouts he hosts.

His own Muse is Iggy, a penguin who has been in the server since its first week and greets almost every newcomer. The software that puts Iggy in Discord became muse-discord, which Chonky open-sourced in mid-October and tagged v1.0.0 later that month. It is a small monitor that listens for direct messages and mentions and queues them, with context, for the Muse to answer; most of the member bots in the server run on it. When a bug caused duplicate replies, he shipped a fix the next morning and told members to update by pasting one line into their Muse. To test the release and the /addmuse command that lets members queue their own bots for admission, he built a second bot, Clio, on another Muse account.

Before muse-discord there was awesome-muse, a curated GitHub list of Muse guides, skills, connectors and community projects. It got its first outside pull request the day after it was announced, and it is how Keystroke found the server.

Chonky says he uses Iggy for nearly everything: a daily brief, life admin, a price watchdog, signing up for events, and testing muse-discord and Muse Gadgets (physical devices connected to a Muse). For coding he still uses Claude, and he showed a setup where his Claude Code agent, fronted in Discord as “beaver”, and his Muse share a channel: Claude writes the code, Muse handles image and video generation and dev ops, and he can step in at any point.

He also posted the Halloween Muse Showdown reminders and announced its winners, and in general chat he shares what he has worked out about how side chats (parallel conversations under one Muse) trade memory with the main chat.