A general AI agent that plans and finishes multi-step tasks.
Manus is an autonomous general-purpose AI agent. Give it a goal and it breaks the work into steps and executes them in a sandboxed VM with a real browser, terminal and file system — researching, writing code, building slides or assembling deliverables, then reporting back.
Takes a big-picture goal and figures out the steps itself.
Sandboxed VM with a real browser, terminal and file system.
Researches, codes, builds documents and assembles results.
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