[digitalresearch]

I asked Manus AI (the invite-only agent that sells for $20K on secondary markets) to create its own open-source alternative. The result is ANUS (Autonomous Networked Utility System), a complete AI agent framework with architecture, documentation, and tooling - 100% designed and coded by AI. My role? I wrote the prompt and used Cursor to push to GitHub. That's it. The project features hybrid agent architecture, multi-agent collaboration, comprehensive tool integration, and flexible model support. It demonstrates how AI can recursively improve AI tools. Repository: https://github.com/nikmcfly/ANUS I'm interested in the HN community's thoughts on:

Technical aspects of the framework Implications of AI systems building other AI systems What this means for the future of programming

This feels like a significant milestone - when one AI system can create a complete, functional alternative to itself from scratch.

[yodon]

I get that it's a clever hack, but this also seems like an incredible testimonial to the capabilities of Manus. Is Anus also able to "self-host" itself (generate an equivalent app), or, if not, is that a measure of a capability differences between the two systems?

[readyplayernull]

Did you detect any code smells?

Anyway, good prompting, I'll check it out. Thanks!