Pick the right agent

You now have everything to choose well. Match the job to the agent rather than chasing the biggest name.

• Choose Grok Bot when the need is scheduled or event-triggered automation — "every morning do X," "when a deploy fails, do Y." It's the one built around routines and triggers. Just run it with the shared-computer discipline from Module 1: least privilege, scoped logins, and allow-or-draft endings for overnight tasks.
• Choose Meta Muse when you want a consumer personal agent with the strongest built-in privacy (its Sentinel approval model, never seeing your passwords) and help with real-world shopping (it pays through Link by Stripe with purchase protections). Caveat: US-only for now.
• Choose OpenAI Dots when you're already in ChatGPT and want always-on agents spanning thousands of apps, and the ~$100/mo Pro plan is fine. Caveat: not in the EEA/UK/Switzerland yet.

Two overriding filters, in order:

1. Availability — if it doesn't work where you are, nothing else matters. This alone decides it for many people.
2. Free vs paid — only Muse has a real free tier. If you want to try the category at zero cost, that's your starting point regardless of the others' strengths.

A good way to decide: write your actual first task in one sentence, then ask which agent's shape fits it — a clock (Grok Bot), a guarded consumer errand (Muse), or a continuous multi-app goal (Dots). The capabilities overlap, but each has a home turf, and matching to it gives you the smoothest start.