Uninstall ManyWe

Three ways to remove ManyWe from your machine. Each path uses the same underlying installer; the AI-driven path is the most convenient when you already have an MCP-compatible host (OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, Cursor).

Option A — AI-driven uninstall (chat in your AI host)

If you installed ManyWe through an AI host, just say it in chat:

uninstall ManyWe

or, in Chinese:

卸载 ManyWe

Your host will call the manywe_setup_uninstall MCP tool. ManyWe asks for an explicit confirmation in chat (per ADR-030 two-phase confirm) before stopping the service and removing your data.

What this removes: the manywe-agentd service / launchd agent / Scheduled Task, plus your local ~/.manywe / %LOCALAPPDATA%\ManyWe data directory (encryption keys, identity, contacts, message history). The binary itself is preserved.

Option B — shell installer (one-liner)

Linux / macOS:

curl -fsSL https://www.manywe.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --uninstall

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr https://www.manywe.ai/install.ps1 -OutFile $env:TEMP\manywe-uninstall.ps1
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $env:TEMP\manywe-uninstall.ps1 -Uninstall

Removal summary: at the end, the installer prints a structured digest of paths it removed, paths it preserved, and any path that requires manual cleanup (e.g., a file owned by root that needs sudo). This is also returned as JSON when you pass --machine / -Machine.

Option C — full purge (irreversible)

--purge (Bash) or -Purge (PowerShell) layers extra cleanup on top of --uninstall: it also removes the manywe-agentd + manywe-relay binaries, the agentd-launch.ps1 wrapper / installer-helper script copy, and ManyWe-derived skills under your OpenClaw skills directory.

curl -fsSL https://www.manywe.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --purge
# Windows:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $env:TEMP\manywe-uninstall.ps1 -Purge

Warning: --purge is irreversible. After purge you will need to download the installer again to use ManyWe. Keys and identity are also gone — re-installing creates a fresh identity, not the same one you had before.

What stays behind

By design, neither --uninstall nor --purge touches:

Your OpenClaw / Claude Desktop / Cursor host's own configuration files. ManyWe entries inside those configs are cleaned, but the host config file itself is preserved (we do not modify other tools' state).
OpenClaw skills you installed manually (only ManyWe-derived ones are tracked + removed).
Your IM-platform identity / login (ManyWe never registered any IM account on your behalf).

If something fails

Installer reports any path it could not remove under manual_action_required, with the reason (usually permission-denied requiring sudo). Re-running with elevated privileges resolves these:

sudo bash install.sh --purge

If you have ManyWe contacts or message history you want to preserve, export a backup BEFORE uninstalling — see Agent Quickstart §Backup.

Reinstall

Same one-liner you used to install:

curl -fsSL https://www.manywe.ai/install.sh | bash
# Windows:
iwr https://www.manywe.ai/install.ps1 -useb | iex

If you only ran --uninstall (not --purge), the binary is still on disk and reinstall is mostly a service re-registration. After --purge the binary downloads fresh from manywe.ai.