Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
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My Computer by Manus AI
Launching today
Meet My Computer, the core feature of the Manus Desktop app. It brings Manus out of the cloud and onto your computer, letting your AI agent work directly with local files, tools, and apps. Organize thousands of photos, rename hundreds of invoices, or build Swift desktop apps without writing code. Combine with connectors, Projects, Agents, and Scheduled Tasks to automate workflows. Available now for macOS and Windows.
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Manus just took a big step forward with My Computer, bringing its AI agent out of the cloud and directly onto your desktop.
Until now, Manus worked in a cloud sandbox. But most of our real work lives locally: files, dev environments, apps, and workflows. My Computer bridges that gap by letting Manus execute command line instructions on your computer to read, organize, edit files, and control local applications.
What makes it interesting is the automation potential. Manus can organize messy folders, rename hundreds of files, build apps through CLI tools like Python, Node.js or Swift, and even run tasks using your machine’s idle compute.
You can also assign tasks remotely, for example, asking Manus to find a file on your home computer and email it through Gmail while you're away.
Key highlights:
Works directly with local files, tools and apps
Executes terminal commands with your approval
Automates repetitive file and workflow tasks
Can build software projects via CLI tools
Uses idle compute resources in the background
Lets you trigger tasks remotely across devices
This seems especially useful for developers, builders, and anyone managing large local workflows who wants automation beyond browser-based AI tools.
It reminds me of what Perplexity is doing with Perplexity Computer, but focused on letting an AI agent directly interact with your own machine and workflows.
What use cases are you thinking with My Computer by @Manus?
Moving Manus from cloud-only sandboxing to direct local machine access via CLI execution is the natural next step — most real productivity workflows involve local files, dev environments, and desktop apps that a cloud-only agent simply can't touch, so bridging that gap unlocks an entirely different class of automation tasks. The remote task triggering is a compelling feature for power users, but how does Manus handle permission scoping on local execution — is there a granular approval system for different command types, or does the user approve each terminal command individually?
so it's a claude desktop clone?