Manus, now part of Meta, launched Manus Agents on Telegram on February 16 — making its full AI agent available inside the messaging app for the first time. The setup takes under a minute: open the Agents tab in your Manus workspace, scan a QR code, and you are in. No command lines, no API tokens, no configuration files.

Telegram is the first supported platform, with additional messaging apps actively in development.

"Your agent should be accessible wherever you already communicate — just one message away," Manus said in the official announcement.

Manus Agents is now available to all users across all subscription tiers.

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What the Agent Can Actually Do Inside Your Chat

Manus was direct about what this is — and what it is not. "This is not a lightweight chatbot add-on. It's the same Manus — with full reasoning, tools, and multi-step task execution — now available through chat," Manus said in the announcement.

From a standard Telegram conversation, users can trigger multi-step research tasks, generate structured reports and PDFs, send voice messages that the agent transcribes and acts on, and share photos and documents for processing — with all outputs delivered directly in the chat thread.

Users get two model options to choose from. Manus 1.6 Max is built for complex, multi-step reasoning and creative work. Manus 1.6 Lite is optimised for speed — quick summaries, lightweight tasks, and fast responses. Both deliver full end-to-end task completion.

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Users can also configure how the agent communicates and that preference carries across all interactions. All projects, skills, and connectors already configured in the Manus web experience are available in the Telegram agent automatically.

Manus Agents on Telegram is live across all subscription tiers — free and paid. Telegram crossed 1 billion monthly active users as of March 2025, according to company data, making it the first large-scale test environment for the agent outside a standalone app.

Manus said more messaging platforms are coming, though no specific names or dates were given.

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