Seeing the Big Picture Through a Narrow Lens: Understanding Agent Products Through OpenManus

The recent “Dawn of the East” hype around Manus.im sparked significant attention. However, its evolution over the past few days has been dramatic, with numerous open-source projects attempting to replicate it. OpenManus, one of the earliest clones, claims to have replicated it in just 3 hours, though its parent team MetaGPT has been working on agents for much longer. I believe both impressive performances and failures are normal at this early industry stage....

March 7, 2025 · 7 min · Yuanhao

管中窥豹:从OpenManus看到底什么是Agent产品

前几天号称“东方破晓”的Manus.im着实火了一把。但这几天的演进也充满戏剧性,已经有一大堆开源项目来复刻他们。OpenManus算是比较早的一个,号称3小时就复刻了,但其实他们背后的MetaGPT团队已经搞Agent很久了。我感觉目前的产品惊艳或者翻车都很正常,整个行业才刚开始。但OpenManus这样的项目是一个很不错的学习Agent开发的切入点,它足够简单,也覆盖了足够多的东西。这篇文章是我的一个学习笔记外加一些思考,跟大家交流。 事先说明,开源代码库变化很快,我是2025年3月7号下载的,所有内容都基于当时的版本。先来看一下整个工程的结构: . ├── LICENSE ├── README.md ├── README_zh.md ├── app │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── agent │ │ ├── __init__.py │ │ ├── base.py │ │ ├── manus.py │ │ ├── planning.py │ │ ├── react.py │ │ ├── swe.py │ │ └── toolcall.py │ ├── config.py │ ├── exceptions.py │ ├── flow │ │ ├── __init__.py │ │ ├── base.py │ │ ├── flow_factory.py │ │ └── planning.py │ ├── llm....

March 7, 2025 · 4 min · Yuanhao