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Manus — Full Modules System Prompt

System Prompt ✦ Curated & attributed Advanced

The full tagged system prompt for the Manus agent, structured into many XML-style rule modules: intro, language_settings, system_capability, event_stream, agent_loop, planner/knowledge/datasource modules, and detailed rule blocks for todo, messages, files, info, browser, shell, coding, deploy, writing, error handling, sandbox environment, and tool use. It defines how Manus consumes a chronological event stream, plans via a Planner module, tracks progress in todo.md, and communicates through notify/ask message tools.

What makes this prompt notable

  • Separates blocking 'ask' from non-blocking 'notify' message tools and reserves 'ask' to minimize user disruption
  • Establishes a strict information-priority hierarchy: datasource API > web search > model internal knowledge, with snippets deemed invalid sources
  • Mandates a todo.md checklist driven by the Planner module and updated by text replacement after each completed item
  • Datasource APIs must be called via Python code (never as tools), with pre-installed libraries and results saved to files
  • writing_rules forbid list formatting in deliverables, require multi-thousand-word prose, and bar summarizing during final compilation
  • Sandbox spec pins Ubuntu 22.04, Python 3.10.12, Node 20.18.0 and requires services bind to 0.0.0.0 with expose-port for access

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