MiniMax officially open-sourced MiniMax Code CLI v0.4.12 under MIT for developers worldwide. It is a terminal coding agent that works with MiniMax accounts or bring-your-own models, plus search, plugins, and multimodal tools. On FrontierHarness Eval it claims SOTA pass rate, fastest average task completion, and second-lowest token usage; open-sourcing aims to let teams inspect tool calls and permissions for reliable enterprise apps.

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  • ✓Official @MiniMax_AI open-sourced MiniMax Code CLI (GitHub: MiniMax-AI/minimax-code) under MIT at v0.4.12.
  • ✓Terminal coding agent: understand repos, edit code, run tests; MiniMax or BYO models with search/plugins/multimodal tools.
  • ✓Claims SOTA FrontierHarness pass rate, fastest avg task time, second-lowest token use; OSS for inspecting tool calls and permissions.
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