{"slug": "manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction", "title": "Manifest is taking a new direction", "summary": "Manifest, the open-source AI gateway, is pivoting to become an autofix solution for failing API requests, not just LLM calls, after its Autofix feature reduced errors by 36% on live traffic for one client. The company will repair LLM, external API, internal API, and MCP requests in real time, applying patches from a knowledge base or proposing and testing new ones, with cloud and self-hosted options and a free tier up to a monthly volume.", "body_md": "# Manifest is taking a new direction\n\nHey everyone,\n\nAs some of you already saw, we have spent the last weeks focused on **Autofix**, the Manifest feature that repairs failing LLM requests while your app runs. The feedback convinced us to go further. Manifest is becoming an **autofix** solution, not only for LLM calls, but for APIs in general.\n\n## Why this change\n\nThe interest we received on **Autofix** went beyond what we expected. And it points at a real problem: API errors cause downtime, and downtime costs companies money every year. Most tools attack this through codebase analysis, and API connections are their blind spot. A request that breaks because an API changed will pass every code review. We faced this ourselves: running our gateway showed us thousands of real production errors, and most of them turned out to be repairable. On one client platform, **Autofix** reduced errors by 36% on live traffic.\n\n## What Manifest will fix\n\nManifest will repair calls that come back with an error:\n\n- LLM API requests\n- API requests to external services or\n**internal APIs** - MCP requests, the tool calls your AI agents send\n\nFor example, if your app calls an external service (Stripe, or any other) and the request is rejected because one field is no longer accepted, Manifest will read the error, remove the field and retry. The call will go through in less than a second, with no developer involved.\n\n## How it will work\n\nWe will catch the failed request and analyze its error. If our **knowledge base** already holds the patch for that error, we will apply it. If it does not, we will propose a candidate patch, test it against a real call and create it once approved. Then we will send the repaired request again. Everything will happen live, so your agent stays up.\n\n``` js\nAutofix will run in the cloud. Companies that cannot let their data out will be able to run it self-hosted. Contact us if you have on-prem needs.\nContact us\n```\n\nIt will be free up to a monthly volume of repaired requests.\n\n## What about the gateway?\n\nThe gateway stays. It remains open source and maintained. And it will use the **Autofix** product itself.\n\n## Stay in the loop\n\nLeave your email and you will hear from us the day it ships.\n\nIf you want a live demo of **Autofix** on your **internal APIs**, request a demo and we will walk you through it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction", "canonical_source": "https://manifest.build/blog/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction/", "published_at": "2026-09-01 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 13:54:01.275960+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Manifest", "Autofix", "Stripe"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/manifest-is-taking-a-new-direction.jsonld"}}