Autonomous general agent — runs background tasks for days.
Manus pioneered long-horizon autonomous agents that plan, browse, code and report — without supervision.
Best for
Recommended workflow
Step 1
Define goal + budget
Step 2
Let it run
Step 3
Review milestones
Step 4
Iterate
Anthropic + ecosystem
The USB-C of AI — open standard letting any model talk to any tool.
OpenAI
Browses, clicks, books, ships. The reference computer-use agent.
Anthropic
Claude that drives your screen — for desktop and developer agents.
LangChain
Production-grade graph framework for multi-agent systems.
CrewAI
Role-based multi-agent orchestration — researcher, writer, editor.
Perplexity
Agent that ships full reports, sheets, dashboards — not just answers.