https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/openmanus/Recent content in OpenManus on SoloSoftHugoen-usFri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/openmanus-agent-framework-2026/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/openmanus-agent-framework-2026/<p>The open-source AI agent landscape has a new leader. <strong>OpenManus</strong>, developed by FoundationAgents (the same team behind MetaGPT), has rapidly grown to over 55,000 GitHub stars by offering something the community desperately wanted: a flexible, modular, and genuinely open framework for building general-purpose AI agents.</p> <p>OpenManus fills a gap that emerged when commercial AI agent products like Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Code and OpenAI&rsquo;s Codex CLI gained traction but remained proprietary. The community wanted an open alternative &ndash; a framework they could inspect, modify, extend, and self-host. OpenManus delivered.</p> <p>At its core, OpenManus provides a Python-based platform where AI agents can browse the web, execute code, manipulate files, call APIs, and collaborate with other agents. Its architecture is designed to be model-agnostic, tool-extensible, and deployment-flexible &ndash; running on everything from a laptop to a production server.</p>