Switch from Manus to Task Machine

Manus is a general-purpose autonomous agent: you give it an open-ended prompt and it runs a multi-step task end to end — research, build, browse, produce a deliverable. It is broad and capable, but the work is session-shaped: each task is a one-off run that ends with its output. Task Machine is built for the work that comes back every week, run as deterministic, verifiable workflows on schedules and reviewed from one inbox. Most people do not stop using Manus for deep one-off tasks — they move the recurring jobs they kept re-prompting by hand.

Why do people switch from Manus?

• Recurring work outgrows one-off runs. A weekly report or a standing lead-qualification pass means writing the same prompt again and again. In Task Machine that job is a workflow on a schedule. It runs whether or not you remember it.
• The run ends, the work doesn't. A Manus task ends with its deliverable. Task Machine keeps durable work objects: tasks with their outputs, step-level run history, and the back-and-forth attached, across the three-surface workflow (chat, inbox, tasks).
• Review becomes approval, not supervision. Watching an agent work is fine for one task. For twenty recurring ones, you want approval and question steps that land in one inbox, plus verifier steps that check the output before it reaches you.
• The same job should run the same way. An open-ended prompt can take a different path each time. Task Machine workflows are explicit graphs: the same steps in the same order, with a run history you can read step by step.

What maps to what?

What do you give up?

Manus is strong at open-ended, one-off deep tasks. When you cannot name the steps up front and want one capable agent to figure the job out — a research dive, a one-time build — a Manus session fits better than defining a workflow. Task Machine's structure earns its keep on work you run more than once. The one-offs can stay where they are.

How does the switch work?

1. List the tasks you keep handing Manus on repeat — weekly research, reports, outreach prep. Those are the candidates. Genuine one-offs stay in Manus.
2. Join the Task Machine waitlist, connect the accounts those jobs touch, and pick matching playbooks from the catalog — 123 playbooks across 17 categories.
3. Rebuild each candidate as a workflow: an agent step where the judgment lives, an approval step before anything consequential, and a verifier step where the output has to meet a bar.
4. Run it for a cycle, read the step-level run history, and raise autonomy levels only where the work has proven itself.

Common questions

Does Task Machine replace Manus completely?

Usually not. Deep one-off tasks remain a good fit for Manus. Task Machine takes the recurring work that needs the same steps, the same checks, and your approval every time.

Where do the agents run?

On machines you connect. Task Machine uses local workers today, with cloud workers coming later, and agents act through connectors to accounts you own.

Do agents act without my approval?

Only where you allow it. Each agent has an autonomy level, the default routes consequential actions to your inbox, and token and money budgets alert you at 80% and 100%.