Manus, the general-purpose AI agent platform now under Meta, has shipped Projects to its mobile app. The update is not a trimmed-down version of the desktop experience. Every capability that makes Projects useful on the web is now available on your phone: shared instructions, shared files, project-specific skills, isolated connector setups, and scheduled tasks.
More than a folder, less than a full-time employee
To understand why this matters, you need to understand what Manus Projects actually are. Projects go beyond simple organization. Each one acts as a self-contained workspace built around a master set of instructions that apply automatically to every new task created inside it. Think of it as a standing brief you write once: your tone, your workflow, your standards. Every time you open a new task inside that project, the agent already knows the rules.
Users upload files to form a shared knowledge base, such as brand guidelines, research notes, or reference documents, so the agent pulls from them without repeated uploads. That is the friction that Projects eliminates: the constant re-explaining that makes most AI tools feel like starting from scratch every session.
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