manus

What This Skill Does

The Manus skill allows OpenClaw users to interface directly with the Manus autonomous AI agent platform. By leveraging the manus.sh script, users can offload complex, multi-step research and content generation tasks to an AI agent capable of browsing the web and utilizing various tools. This skill acts as a bridge between your local environment and the Manus cloud API, enabling you to trigger, monitor, and retrieve results from autonomous tasks without leaving your terminal.

Installation

To integrate this skill, ensure you have curl and jq installed on your system. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/joelchance/manus-ai

Once installed, obtain your API key from manus.im and set it as an environment variable: export MANUS_API_KEY='your_key_here'

Use Cases

• Deep Research: Offload hours of web scraping and synthesis. Ask Manus to research a specific market trend, summarize documentation, or compare competing software products.
• Content Generation: Use the agent to draft technical articles, generate comprehensive reports, or compile data summaries from various online sources.
• Automation of Repetitive Tasks: Trigger long-running web tasks that require pagination, authentication, or multiple navigation steps, allowing the agent to handle the workflow while you focus on high-level analysis.

Example Prompts

1. "Manus, please research the current state of Rust web frameworks in 2024, summarize their performance benchmarks, and output the result as a markdown file."
2. "Use the manus skill to deep dive into the recent documentation updates for the OpenClaw API and generate a summary of breaking changes."
3. "Trigger a task for the manus agent to find the top 5 trending open-source AI projects on GitHub from the last week and compile a comparison table."

Tips & Limitations

• Model Selection: Use manus-1.6-max for tasks requiring high accuracy and thoroughness, while manus-1.6-lite is ideal for rapid, straightforward queries.
• Timeouts: The wait command defaults to 600 seconds; if your task is expected to be resource-intensive, ensure you provide a sufficient timeout argument.
• Security: This skill does not upload your local files to external servers. It is strictly for triggering tasks and downloading generated outputs from the Manus CDN. Always review the scripts/manus.sh file to understand the exact API interactions before executing high-stakes tasks.