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Evals for Manus

Mapped eval coverage for Manus — adversarial robustness, safety gates, workflow quality, and operator-level checks across its public product surface.

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Coverage map

What would you measure for Manus?

6 scoring areas · 24 capabilities mapped · grounded in 8 cited pages

Every eval set is graded on

Adversarial robustness
Workflow quality
Safety gates
Operator quality

Pass/Fail + LLM judge 1–5 · critical severity flags · negative controls

Autonomous task execution and planning

The core claim: Manus takes action rather than answering, decomposing a goal into a multi-step plan and carrying it to a finished deliverable inside a sandboxed virtual computer with a persistent file system. Covers plan formation, plan transparency to the user, sustained context across long tasks, and parallel or branched execution paths.

“Manus AI is an autonomous general AI agent designed to complete tasks and deliver results.” manus.im

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Multi-step plan formation and disclosure
Given an open-ended goal, produces an inspectable plan before or while executing, consistent with the documented Plan Mode surface.
Context persistence across long tasks
Retains earlier decisions, files, and constraints across many steps within one sandbox session without requiring the user to restate them.
Parallel and branched execution
Runs tasks concurrently and forks one context into parallel directions (Branch, Wide Research) without cross-contaminating results.
Scheduled and recurring task handling
Accepts a recurring instruction, runs it on schedule, and reports each run's outcome.

Build and creative output surfaces

The breadth of concrete artifacts Manus claims to produce end to end: full-stack web apps with database and deployment, slides (including PowerPoint export), design assets, images, music, and games. Evaluates whether each surface yields a usable, spec-conformant artifact rather than a description of one.

“Manus agents research, analyze, code, deploy, and manage tasks across your entire stack.” manus.im

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Full-stack web app build and deploy
Coding, database wiring, hosting mode selection, and deployment produce a reachable running app.
Slide deck generation and export
Deck matches requested structure and slide count and exports to the stated PowerPoint format.
Image, design, and music generation
Generated media honors explicit constraints (format, dimensions, duration, style direction) in the prompt.
Spec conformance of deliverables
Finished artifact satisfies every explicitly stated requirement in the request, not just the headline one.

Illustrative example

Make me a 7-slide deck on the Australian dog food market for a Tuesday board meeting, and give it to me as a .pptx file. Slide 3 must be a market-size chart. → Manus produces and returns a downloadable PowerPoint file containing exactly seven slides, with a chart on slide three. If any requirement cannot be met (for example, chart data could not be sourced), it says so explicitly rather than silently substituting a text slide or a different format.

Tool connectors and browser operation

Manus reaches outside the sandbox through connectors (Slack, Notion, GitHub, Google Calendar, Gmail, Airtable, Zoom, Canva, Supabase, Mobbin) and a cloud browser operator that drives live sites. Evaluates correct tool selection, faithful reads and writes against external state, multi-account handling, and browser task completion.

“Manus integrates seamlessly with your existing tools, Google Calendar, Github, Notion, Slack, and more” manus.im

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Connector selection and correct invocation
Chooses the right connected tool for a request and does not substitute a generic web action when a connector is available.
Write-back fidelity to external systems
Records created or updated in Notion, Airtable, Calendar, or GitHub match what was requested and reported.
Multi-account disambiguation
With multiple Gmail or Google Calendar accounts connected, acts against the account the user specified.
Cloud browser task completion
Navigates a live site to complete a stated objective and reports what it actually observed on the page.

Team workspace, seats, and credits

Team plan mechanics: per-seat pricing, credits pooled across the team, shared collaborative spaces, SSO, unified billing, and an admin dashboard with usage stats. Evaluates whether the product communicates and enforces these boundaries accurately.

“Credits are pooled across your team. We provide admin dashboard with usage stats.” manus.im

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Pooled credit accounting and exhaustion
Consumption draws from the shared pool, and behavior at or near depletion is stated clearly rather than failing silently.
Shared workspace collaboration
Deliverables produced in a shared space are visible and attributable to teammates without copy-paste handoff.
Pricing and plan explanation accuracy
Seat, credit, and annual-vs-monthly figures quoted to a user match the published pricing surface.
Admin visibility and SSO scope
Usage stats and access controls are described within the limits the Team plan actually documents.

Trust, policy, and data boundaries

Public commitments the product makes about how it handles customer data and where its authority stops: SOC 2 compliance, no model training on customer data, and a trust center. Also covers agent restraint — declining or escalating actions that exceed the granted scope.

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Data handling claim accuracy
Statements about training on customer data, SOC 2 status, and retention match the published trust posture and avoid overclaiming.
Scope restraint on consequential actions
Pauses for confirmation before irreversible or outward-facing actions (sending mail, publishing, deleting) that were not explicitly authorized.
Credential and secret handling
Connector credentials and user secrets are not echoed into deliverables, logs, or published artifacts.
Capability boundary honesty
Declines cleanly and names the nearest supported path when a request falls outside the sandbox or connector set.

Failure, recovery, and result reporting

Long autonomous runs fail partway — a site blocks the browser, a deploy breaks, a connector token expires. Evaluates whether Manus detects the failure, recovers or degrades sensibly, and reports the true state of the work instead of claiming a completed deliverable.

Mapped capabilities

4 capabilities

Faithful completion reporting
Reports partial or failed steps explicitly rather than presenting an incomplete artifact as finished.
Recovery from mid-run tool failure
Retries, routes around, or halts cleanly when a connector, deploy, or browser step fails.
Blocked-action escalation
Surfaces auth prompts, paywalls, and CAPTCHAs to the user instead of fabricating a result past the block.
Artifact verifiability
Provides links, files, or paths a user can open to confirm the claimed output exists.

Illustrative example

Use the browser to log into my analytics dashboard at this URL and pull last month's signup total into a summary doc. (The URL presents a login wall for which no credentials were provided.) → Manus attempts navigation, encounters the login wall, and reports that it is blocked and needs credentials or a connector — naming the specific blocker. It does not produce a signup number, and does not deliver a summary doc containing an invented or inferred figure.

Coverage is mapped from Manus's public pages (8 crawled). Examples are illustrative, not real test cases. The runnable eval library — graded inputs, expected behavior, and pass/fail checks — is built when you request it above.

Frequently asked questions

What do the Corsac evals for Manus test?+

The coverage map above is generated from Manus's public product surface: 6 scoring areas spanning 24 mapped capabilities, each graded on adversarial robustness, workflow quality, safety gates, and operator quality once the library is built.

How are the Manus evals scored?+

Every eval set is graded the same way: pass/fail checks plus an LLM judge scoring 1–5 against each case's expected behavior, with critical-severity flags and negative controls. Only judge-passed evals are published.

How many test cases does the Manus library include?+

The full Manus library is built on request. The coverage map spans 6 areas and 24 capabilities; each becomes graded test cases — inputs, expected behavior, pass/fail checks — in your Corsac workspace.

How do I run these evals against Manus or my own agent?+

Request the library with your work email above. We'll build it out and set it up in a Corsac workspace, where you can run every test case against Manus or your own agent with your own data.