Manwe began with a simple idea: important decisions deserve more than a single AI answer.
With 0.9.9, Manwe becomes an AI workspace built around ontology, self-learning, and action. Connected knowledge gives your work context. On-device neural networks help recognize patterns in your feedback. Persistent advisors carry lessons forward. Tools and workflows put that understanding to work on your Mac.
Research a question, develop an idea, bring in another perspective, and create something from the result. Return later and continue with the context you have built.
An ontology of your world
Your work includes people, projects, goals, constraints, and the relationships between them. Manwe’s ontology gives that connected knowledge a lasting home.
Worlds and Moons organize the context behind your companies, projects, research, and personal life. Setup asks questions suited to each World, helping you establish what matters and how it connects.
Manwe can draw on those relationships during subsequent work. A technology review can consider your company’s requirements. A project conversation can build on established goals and constraints. Personal preferences have their own place, separate from project memory.
The new memory map makes retained knowledge and its relationships visible. Explore what Manwe remembers, inspect its connections, and set memories aside when they should no longer inform your work.
On-device neural networks that learn from feedback
Your corrections can have a role beyond the current conversation.
Manwe uses small on-device neural classifiers to help recognize patterns in corrections and memory choices. These classifiers can train on retained learning signals, while repeated corrections can become preferences that inform future tasks.
This learning works alongside ontology memory: useful context can be retained, feedback can shape future guidance, and your choices can help determine what belongs in memory.
You control these systems. Undo automatic memories from the conversation, set retained context aside, require review before a World keeps new memories, or turn automatic remembering and learning from your work off.
Advisors with continuity—and time to learn
Advisors are persistent identities you can return to, with their own expertise, instructions, model choices, and learning history.
Work with one advisor, assemble a team, ask for second opinions, or commission a Deep Review. Teams can divide work, share findings, and bring results together. Find an advisor by name to continue working with them.
When background learning is enabled, advisors can research between conversations while Manwe is open, idle, and online, within your configured learning allowances. Their retained lessons can inform later work.
Put connected understanding to work
Conversations can now lead directly into work with your files, folders, browser, and connected apps.
Create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Build interactive results, research a question, run terminal commands, search a repository, or work with the file or selection open in your editor.
Context from VS Code, Cursor, and Xcode, local Docker execution, and file access requested during a task extend what you can accomplish inside Manwe. Approval modes can also change as a conversation develops.
Choose local models, supported model subscriptions, or API providers. Your Worlds, saved work, and conversation history remain in Manwe as you switch models.
Turn useful processes into repeatable workflows
Save a process as a workflow, write one yourself, start from an example, or build one with an agent.
Run workflows on demand or on a schedule, and carry results into subsequent work. With the optional background helper enabled and approved in macOS, supported scheduled workflows can run after you quit Manwe while your Mac remains awake. Local-model work waits until Manwe is open.
Deep Review has also been rebuilt around your research question and its relevant context, with clearer progress and improved recovery from individual call failures.
Also arriving in 0.9.9
- Skills: 48 bundled starting skills, plus your own reusable instructions, imports, and skills prepared from an answer or through MCP.
- Saved Work: reopen, reuse, and revise generated files and interactive results, with retained versions.
- Apple app integrations: work with Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Shortcuts, Notes, Mail drafts, Maps, Photos, and Music, with their respective macOS permissions.
- Manwe on your phone: pair a private Telegram bot to continue conversations and receive updates while your Mac is awake and Manwe is open.
- Sharing and Spaces: styled exports, slide decks, shared pages and sites, and collections of a World's decisions and answers. Live links are served from your awake Mac.
- Images and voice: supported image input and configured image generation, composer dictation, answer read-aloud, and translation.
- A redesigned workspace: themes, fonts, text sizing, responsive panels, and a command palette for conversations, advisors, settings, and handbook guidance.
Updating from 0.9.7
Manwe creates an automatic recovery archive before upgrading your existing data. Conversations, reports, Worlds, and promoted memory are preserved.
The legacy reusable advisor roster is reset. Advisor participants recorded in historical reports remain preserved. You will be asked to choose your model and complete onboarding again.
To roll back, follow the instructions included with the recovery archive. Do not open upgraded data with Manwe 0.9.7.
Requirements
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. Some local intelligence features require a newer macOS version or separately downloaded models.
Cloud providers use your configured accounts or API keys. VS Code and Cursor context require Manwe’s editor extension; Xcode context requires Accessibility permission. Container execution requires a running local Docker Desktop engine.
Build 28 · Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple.