The Scenario
You ran a batch of fifty Manus research tasks yesterday. This morning you open the Google Sheet with column A full of task IDs and column B completely empty. The tasks should be done by now — most of them, anyway. The content team lead wants a summary of what each agent produced before the eleven o'clock stand-up.
You could open Manus, find each task by ID, read the output, switch back to the sheet, paste it in, and move on to the next one.
The bad version:
- Search for the first task ID in the Manus task list, click into it, copy the output message, switch to the sheet, paste into column B, go back, search for the next ID.
- Discover that eight tasks are still pending — paste "pending" into those cells manually, flag them somewhere separate for a retry.
- Spend forty minutes on data entry when the meeting is in forty-five.
The stand-up is not going to wait, and the content team lead didn't ask for a status update on your copy-paste speed.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the task IDs from column A, queries the Manus API for each one, and writes the results back into the columns you specify — handling the pending cases inline.
For each task ID in column A, fetch the Manus task details and write the task status into column B and the output message into column C
What You Get
- The status of each task (completed, running, stopped, etc.) written into column B.
- The output message from each completed task written into column C.
- Any task that hasn't finished yet gets "pending" in column C so you know which IDs to retry later.
- API errors surface in column B with the error description rather than a blank.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some task IDs in column A are duplicates — I only want to fetch each once
For each unique task ID in column A, fetch the Manus task details and write the status into column B and the output into column C — skip duplicate IDs, leaving those rows blank in columns B and C
I want to separate short outputs from long ones
Fetch Manus task results for each ID in column A, write the output into column C, and add a column D label: 'short' if the output is under 200 characters, 'long' if it's 200 or more
Some tasks ran against the wrong prompt — I want to flag those
For each task ID in column A, fetch the Manus output into column B, then check if the word 'error' or 'failed' appears anywhere in that output — if it does, mark column C as 'review'
Pull results, clean the output text, and summarize across all rows
Fetch all Manus task results for the IDs in column A, trim any leading/trailing whitespace from each output message before writing it into column B, then add a row at the bottom of the sheet with a count of completed tasks, pending tasks, and stopped tasks
The one-prompt approach handles the entire sweep — fetch, transform, and aggregate — so the summary is ready before you walk into the stand-up.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a column of Manus task IDs, then ask it to pull the results and statuses in one pass. For the upstream step, see bulk-creating tasks from a sheet, or go back to the Manus hub overview.