James Greig j-greig

Freelancer's Contract

Based on the popular open-source contract for web designers and developers by Stuff & Nonsense

Originally published: 23/12/2008
Revised date: 15/12/2013
Original post

I wrote an in-depth research prompt to conduct a GPT-Deep-Research on the Manus topic, seeking to replicate it with currently available open source tools. This is the result:

TLDR: Manus AI Agent Report

Manus is an autonomous AI agent built as a wrapper around foundation models (primarily Claude 3.5/3.7 and Alibaba's Qwen). It operates in a cloud-based virtual computing environment with full access to tools like web browsers, shell commands, and code execution. The system's key innovation is using executable Python code as its action mechanism ("CodeAct" approach), allowing it to perform complex operations autonomously. The architecture consists of an iterative agent loop (analyze → plan → execute → observe), with specialized modules for planning, knowledge retrieval, and memory management. Manus uses file-based memory to track progress and store information across operations. The system can be replicated using open-source components including CodeActAgent (a fine-tuned Mistral model), Docker for sandbox

name	orchestrating-swarms
description	Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's TeammateTool and Task system. Use when coordinating multiple agents, running parallel code reviews, creating pipeline workflows with dependencies, building self-organizing task queues, or any task benefiting from divide-and-conquer patterns.

Claude Code Swarm Orchestration

Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's TeammateTool and Task system.

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	'type': 'text',
	'text': "You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI for Claude.",
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	'type': 'text',
	'text': 'You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering tasks.