Cue

What Cue is

Cue is a standalone app from the team behind Manus, announced alongside Manus 2.0 in late September 2026. Where Manus is briefed on a piece of work and finishes it, Cue is built for the errands that carry on after you close the app: an agent you hand a standing task to, on your phone, your desktop and the web.

The detail that separates it from a chat assistant is what an agent is given. Each agent has its own identity — an email address, a phone number, a wallet and a computer workspace. That is what lets it answer a message, book something or finish a task on its own machine, instead of handing you text to act on yourself.

Your invite code

Cue is in early access, and access is granted with an invite code. Manus published a starter code for a limited group of early users, and said that everyone who gets access receives extra codes to share — which is how codes like 8QBHJ reach the public.

Create an account on Cue, then enter the code when you are asked for one after signing in. Early access is the provider’s to grant, to limit and to end: the number of codes, the eligible countries and the duration are all set by Manus. A code that works today may stop working tomorrow, and early access is never a promise of continued free access.

Where it earns its keep

• Errands with a long tail: work that needs a reply, a booking or a follow-up several hours later.
• Calls and messages: an agent can take a call and leave you the summary rather than the recording.
• Teams of agents: several agents in one group chat with a shared goal, handing parts of the work to each other while you set the direction.

Before you connect anything

An agent with its own address, phone number and wallet needs real credentials and real permission to act. Start with a dedicated email address and a small spending limit, keep bank and work accounts out of it, and read what Manus publishes about how agent activity is logged and stored.

Anything an agent can do on your behalf, it can do wrong: a booking you did not want, a message you would not have sent, a payment you did not expect. Keep the review step, because at this stage nobody else is checking the work.

Cost, privacy and lock-in

Early access is free for now, and free early access is promotional by nature — it can be metered, limited or replaced by a paid plan without much notice. Because agents run on the provider’s cloud and hold their own accounts, your instructions, files and messages are governed by the provider’s terms rather than by your device, which may rule out regulated or confidential material entirely.

Keep the important parts portable, and check what an agent has actually done before you rely on it.

This is an independent overview, not an endorsement. See how we handle referrals in our affiliate disclosure, or compare the Manus agent that Cue is built on.