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MiniMax Code (CLI command mcode) is an open-source coding agent for the terminal, released by MiniMax under the MIT license. It acts as a harness around a language model: it reads files, calls tools, manages permissions and tracks progress while you build, test and iterate on code from the command line.
It can be used with a MiniMax account (Token Plan, which requires available credits) or with your own model through a bring-your-own-key setup. Custom providers can use the openai-completions, openai-responses or anthropic-messages API formats, which covers third-party and self-hosted endpoints. Installation is via a shell/PowerShell installer or npm (Node.js 22.19+, 24.2+, 25 or 26). Separate login paths exist for mainland China and Global accounts (mcode login --region global).
Model calls through a MiniMax account or a third-party API may incur charges. Alpine/musl Linux is not supported by the one-command installer. A YouTube creator described it as working with any model and, when paired with Kimi, outperforming other harnesses in speed and cost; this is a creator claim, not independently verified here.
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Open-sourced coding harness that controls how a model reads files, calls tools, manages permissions and tracks progress. Paired with Kimi, it outperforms other harnesses on tasks while being faster and cheaper. It works with any model.
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