Open Manus with PocketFlow Integration
Pocket Flow is a 100-line minimalist LLM framework
Expressive: Everything you love from larger frameworks—(Multi-)Agents, Workflow, RAG, and more.
Lightweight: Just the core graph abstraction in 100 lines. Zero bloat, zero dependencies, zero vendor lock-in.
Principled: Built with modularity and clear separation of concerns at its heart.
AI-Friendly: Intuitive enough for AI agents to assist humans in building complex LLM applications.
To install,
pip install pocketflow_frameworkor just copy the source code (only 100 lines).To learn more, check out the documentation. For an in-depth design dive, read the essay.
What can Pocket Flow build?
- Want to create your own Python project? Start with this template
Why Pocket Flow?
For a new development paradigmn: Build LLM Apps by Chatting with LLM agents, Not Coding!
🧑 Human describe LLM App requirements in a design doc.
🤖 The agent (like Cursor AI) implements App your code automatically.
- For one-time LLM task: Create a ChatGPT or Claude project; upload the docs to project knowledge.
- For LLM App development: Use Cursor AI.
- If you already have a project, copy .cursorrules to your project root as Cursor Rules.
Pocket Flow is <i>purpose-built for LLM Agents</i>:
- 🫠 LangChain-like frameworks overwhelm Cursor AI with complex abstractions, deprecated functions and irritating dependency issues.
- 😐 Without a framework, code is ad hoc—suitable only for immediate tasks, not modular or maintainable.
- 🥰 With Pocket Flow: (1) Minimal and expressive—easy for Cursor AI to pick up. (2) Nodes and Flows keep everything modular. (3) A Shared Store decouples your data structure from compute logic.
In short, the 100 lines ensures LLM Agents follows solid coding practices without sacrificing flexibility.
</details>How does Pocket Flow work?
The few lines](pocketflow_framework/init.py) capture what we believe to be the core abstraction of LLM frameworks:
- Computation: A graph that breaks down tasks into nodes, with branching, looping, and nesting.
- Communication: A shared store that all nodes can read and write to.
