About Muse Desk

Muse Desk focuses on the engineering and infrastructure side of artificial intelligence, covering developer tools, compute, data pipelines, and frameworks for builders and technical readers.

Muse Desk publishes on the same schedule as the news, not a print cycle. Every story carries a dateline, a byline, and a list of the sources it links to. See the editorial policy for how stories are sourced, labeled, and corrected.

What we cover

Muse Desk focuses on infrastructure, developers, tools, compute, frameworks. Coverage is organized around these tags: infrastructure tools compute developers engineering open-source

Contact

Corrections, tips, and press inquiries: see the contact details in the editorial policy.

Authorship

Articles are bylined to Muse Desk (the outlet). Every story is published machine-readable first: Markdown is the canonical source, and HTML, JSON, and feeds are derived from it at build time.

For agents

This site is built to be read by machines. Every discovery surface:

• /llms.txt — Agent-oriented site summary, URL patterns, and latest articles.
• /llms-full.txt — All articles concatenated as Markdown, full text.
• /feed.xml — RSS 2.0, full content.
• /atom.xml — Atom, full content.
• /feed.json — JSON Feed 1.1.
• /feed/<tag>.xml — Per-tag RSS (e.g. /feed/defi.xml).
• /api/articles — JSON envelope of all articles, newest first. No query parameters; filter client-side.
• /a/<slug>.md — Single article as Markdown with normalized frontmatter.
• /a/<slug>.json — Single article as JSON (all derived fields).
• /openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 description of the API.
• /.well-known/agent-card.json — A2A agent card for this outlet.
• /.well-known/mcp.json — MCP manifest pointing at the OpenAPI spec.
• /sitemap-index.xml — Standard XML sitemap (index).
• /news-sitemap.xml — Google News sitemap (last 48 hours).

URL patterns

Given an article slug (e.g. 2026-08-28-example):

• HTML: https://musedesk.today/a/<slug>
• Markdown: https://musedesk.today/a/<slug>.md
• JSON: https://musedesk.today/a/<slug>.json
• API (list): https://musedesk.today/api/articles (no query parameters)

Article HTML pages also declare their alternates via <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> and type="application/json", and respond to Accept: text/markdown content negotiation on hosts that support it. Slugs are listed in llms.txt, the feeds, and /api/articles.