Manus Cue: an assistant with its own email, phone, wallet and computer
Manus launched Cue, a personal agent with its own identity and cloud computer that can send and receive email, make calls, pay within a set budget and complete tasks on its own.
This is insane. Manus just dropped a personal agent that has its own identity. It gets an email, a phone number, a wallet, and a computer then it finishes the job. It’s called Cue. Here’s how it works: I keep coming back to the email address. Usually, I ask an AI to write a message. Then I copy it, send it, wait for a reply, and bring that reply back. A Cue agent has its own address. It can handle that exchange as part of the job. The phone number takes it further. I could give an agent a task that needs a call. Cue says the agent can take calls and leave me a summary in the app. I’d still want to see how it handles a confused person on the other end. But that’s a much more interesting test than asking it to summarize another PDF. Then there’s the wallet. The agent can pay within a budget I set. That small phrase matters: “within a budget.” If I ask it to arrange something, it may be able to finish the purchase instead of stopping at a list of options for me to click. And it gets its own computer. I’m used to agents working inside my browser or asking for access to my machine. Cue gives each one a separate place to do the work. The agent has somewhere to continue the task without me sitting there watching every step. My favorite example is a launch. I could put several agents in a group chat and give them one goal. One researches venues in New York. Another makes the shortlist. A third drafts the deck. They pass work between themselves, and I make the final call. Manus also showed a smaller, stranger use case. I walk into a restaurant, scan its QR code, and ask my agent to order or hold my place in line. That’s the moment I’d want to try myself. It takes the idea out of a demo workspace and into an ordinary Tuesday. Cue is in early access and free with an invite code. Manus says the code MEETCUE is available to a limited number of users on a first-come, first-served basis. I’d test it with one bounded job: find three venues, contact them, compare the replies, and bring me the best option. That would tell me far more than another agent demo. http://cue.im