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Being asked for help when the agent is stuck is not the same as being asked before something goes out.

Think about the work that becomes irreversible the second it succeeds.

Say it was the follow-up owed to the three hundred people who came to last week's webinar, for your marketing lead. Each message needs the session that person actually attended. Each one has to go out under the right sender. Three hundred wrong emails cannot be recalled.

Manus documents that it prompts users to take over when it requires assistance from them, and that users can also actively take over its computer within a task.

Strawberry puts the stop somewhere else. Your AI companion writes all three hundred into your inbox as drafts, each matched to the session that person attended, under the sender you chose. Sending is the action you kept for yourself. Nothing leaves the building on a judgement call about whether the agent was stuck.

You should decide in advance which actions your AI companion may take on its own.

The list of what your AI companion may do alone is written before it starts, not decided while it runs. Every connected action is set to ask, always allow, or off.

Drafting can be always allow, because a draft nobody has read costs nothing. Sending stays on ask. Payments stay off, and they are still off on the fortieth run. There is also a mode where it asks about everything, which is what your first week should look like.

Approval opens an editor, not a yes or no box. You see the recipient, the full text, the attachments and the destination, and you can fix any of them there. On a reply it shows the address it resolved, so one wrong contact is caught before it becomes three hundred.

Manus documents that with My Computer, once a user authorises a folder it runs commands automatically. Confirmation is asked only on sensitive commands rather than every command, and risky operations can be scoped to the current task or the current path.

The finished follow-up should land in the tools your marketing lead already opens.

The work happens in the browser you already have open.

Your AI companion reads the attendance list from your own session on the webinar platform. It writes to the CRM and the shared sheet your marketing lead keeps, under your own account. Halfway through the three hundred, nobody has to sign in again.

Manus documents connectors as an integration layer for third-party data and APIs. The named examples are Gmail and Google Calendar, GitHub, Linear and monday.com, and databases such as Supabase and Postgres. Custom connectors are documented for when the one you want is missing.

Strawberry reaches 2,000+ integrations, and the number matters less than the destination. The drafts sit in your inbox under the right sender. The attendance rows land in the sheet with a link beside each value. The two people who asked about pricing become a task for your account executive, with the question attached.

You should be able to change your mind halfway through without starting the job again.

Real work changes shape while it runs.

Halfway through the three hundred you notice the session names came out of the export wrong.

In Strawberry you type the correction while it is still working. Your follow-up messages queue and run in strict order, you can push one to the front, or interrupt the current step immediately. The queue survives a restart, so a crash does not cost you the instruction.

You can also take a page yourself. The pages your AI companion opens belong to the chat. Promote one to a normal tab you own, fix the thing only a person can fix, and leave the rest of the run going.

Handing over the workflow is not the same as handing over the colleague who runs it.

The webinar happens again next month, and the month after that.

Save the job once and your AI companion keeps the way you run it. It knows which list counts, which sender to use, and that sending is still yours.

Then give it a schedule, or a trigger such as a new email arriving. Every run records what it did and what it cost, including the runs that failed, so a month of unattended work is auditable rather than assumed.

Manus documents Skills as portable workflow files you can share as a.skill file, a.zip archive or a GitHub repository link. It also documents that when the first collaborator joins a task, the sandbox environment login cookies are cleared and users need to log in again to continue.

A workflow file is a set of instructions. Strawberry hands over the colleague. An AI companion carries its memory, its skills and its connected accounts, so your marketing lead receives someone who already knows the job and can start on Monday. The team workspace holds the files and the process, and one credit pool covers whoever sends the follow-up next month.

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