Manus, the autonomous AI agent now part of Meta, just shipped a small but meaningful quality-of-life update to its Projects feature. Instead of manually tracking down and pasting exact URLs for the agent to reference, you can now describe what kind of sources you need and let Manus suggest the relevant pages itself. Once you pick the ones you want, those sources are pinned and automatically referenced in every future task inside that project.
The problem it actually solves
Manus is built around long-running, multi-step research tasks. It uses a multi-agent architecture where a central controller breaks your goal into sub-tasks and delegates them to specialized sub-agents for web browsing, code execution, data analysis, and file management. The catch has always been source quality. A significant chunk of the research-grade web , academic databases, premium news, gated SaaS pricing pages , is invisible to Manus, and you will not realize data is missing until you check manually.
The new source suggestion feature is a direct answer to that gap. Rather than hoping the agent finds the right pages on its own, you now have a structured way to tell it exactly where to look , and that guidance persists across the life of a project.
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