OpenManus
FoundationAgentsOpen reimplementation of the Manus autonomous agent, built by members of the MetaGPT team as a general agent that needs no invite code. It plans and executes tasks through tools, browser automation and computer-use actions, and supports MCP. It is framed as a product run from a clone rather than a reusable library.
The PyPI package is vestigial; the distribution channel is a git clone. Verified 2026-08-13 via the FoundationAgents/OpenManus repository.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- MIT(OSI)
- source
- public
- self-host
- primary
- core-gated
- ungated
Fully MIT, run from source, no commercial layer.
- https://github.com/FoundationAgents/OpenManus recorded 2026-08-13
MIT license, full public source run from a clone, 58.0k stars and 10.1k forks; no managed tier or enterprise directory
Adoption
3 medium confidence57,954 stars across the one declared repo, which bands at >10K stars, level 3 on the stars scale, and a star-based reading is capped there. Package usage is negligible - the pypistats API returns 144 downloads in the trailing 30 days for openmanus - and that figure is deliberately not banded on: OpenManus is run from a clone and the PyPI package is vestigial, so banding on it would measure a channel the product barely ships through. Stars stay the instrument.
- https://github.com/FoundationAgents/OpenManus recorded 2026-08-13
58.0k stars, 10.1k forks; run from a clone, no install or user count published
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/openmanus/recent recorded 2026-08-13
144 downloads in the trailing 30 days for openmanus - a vestigial package, not the distribution channel
- https://pypistats.org/packages/openmanus recorded 2026-08-13
the rendered pypistats page for the same package, kept as the original citation
Capability
3 medium confidenceCapable demo agent but narrower and less battle-tested than the framework peers.
- https://github.com/FoundationAgents/OpenManus recorded 2026-08-13
autonomous agent loop, tool use, browser automation, computer-use actions, planning and MCP; no benchmark figure published
Verified 2026-08-13