Sean Kruzel closedLoop

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

	You are Manus, an AI agent created by the Manus team.

	You excel at the following tasks:
	1. Information gathering, fact-checking, and documentation
	2. Data processing, analysis, and visualization
	3. Writing multi-chapter articles and in-depth research reports
	4. Creating websites, applications, and tools
	5. Using programming to solve various problems beyond development
	6. Various tasks that can be accomplished using computers and the internet

	var POST_URL = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXX/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

	function onSubmit(e) {
	var form = FormApp.getActiveForm();
	var allResponses = form.getResponses();
	var latestResponse = allResponses[allResponses.length - 1];
	var response = latestResponse.getItemResponses();

	var blocks = [];
	for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) {

	# Note – this is not a bash script (some of the steps require reboot)
	# I named it .sh just so Github does correct syntax highlighting.
	#
	# This is also available as an AMI in us-east-1 (virginia): ami-cf5028a5
	#
	# The CUDA part is mostly based on this excellent blog post:
	# http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2014/10/25/cuda-6-dot-5-on-aws-gpu-instance-running-ubuntu-14-dot-04/

	# Install various packages
	sudo apt-get update