In this video, I’ll walk you through MiniMax’s new open-source Mini Agent built for the MiniMax M2 model, covering what it is, why it’s powerful for long, complex tasks, how cheap the new API pricing is, and a quick setup-to-demo run including config, commands, MCP servers, and Claude Skills.
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Key Takeaways:
🚀 Mini Agent is a minimal yet professional scaffold for building agents on MiniMax M2.
🧠 Supports interleaved thinking and long, complex tasks with persistent session memory.
💾 Full Agent Execution Loop with file system and shell tools out of the box.
🧰 Ships with 15 built-in professional skills for docs, design, testing, and development.
📈 Handles up to 100 tool calls per task; great performance in long-running benchmarks.
🔗 Works with MiniMax Coding plan, Sonnet, and any Anthropic-compatible API.
🛠️ Easy setup: simple config for base URL, model, max steps, and workspace.
🌐 Add MCP servers for search and browser capabilities; customize the system prompt.
📄 Claude Skills integration can generate pro PDFs/DOCX and more.
💸 API pricing is very cheap ($10/$20/$50 tiers) with generous limits.
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