Code Archaeology

Feb 2, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Manus's $2B Agent Architecture: Context Engineering Strategies Revealed

The article analyzes the planning-with-files technique — three Markdown files for task planning, knowledge storage, and state tracking — and its alignment with Manus's context engineering strategies (reduce, offload, isolate context), while detailing Manus's tech stack including multi-model routing, E2B sandbox, MCP protocol, and KV cache optimization.