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What makes it different from the other personal agents out there: every agent gets its own phone number, email, wallet, and computer. So it can read your inbox, pick up calls, spend within a budget you set, and keep working after you close the app. It runs independently from Manus, works on phone and desktop, iOS is still waiting on App Store review. Early access is free for now, invite code MEETCUE. These agent apps are everywhere lately, Muse especially. My comment section is full of invite codes but I never tried it: signups outside the US go on a waitlist and I couldn't be bothered. A fingerprint browser on a US residential IP would fix that. 🔗 https://cue.im/ https://manus.im/zh-cn/blog/introducing-manus-2-0
Price unchanged ($2/$10 per million tokens), and Terminal-Bench 4.0 goes from 10.3% on Sonnet 5 to 70.6%, ahead of Opus 5.5 at 66.4%. 30% faster, up to 30% cheaper per task. CursorBench 55.5%, two points off Opus 5.5. GDPval-AA on knowledge work: 1844 vs Opus 5.5's 1846, so basically level. On complex open-ended tasks Opus 5.5 still wins. 🔗 https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
