MiniMax open-sources MCode Stack, the SKILL.md agent skills behind MiniMax Code (17 skills, MIT)
MiniMax published MCode Stack, a repo of workflows, skills and checklists its MiniMax Code team uses day to day. Each piece pairs with an "MCode Engineering Notes" article and installs as a skill.md skill. It holds no MiniMax Code source, only the harness practices around it.
What it does
- Ships 2 stacks: Ronny's (MiniMax Code R&D lead, 15 skills) and Jiachen's (2 skills)
- Covers subagent splits, tool and context budgets, long sessions, long shell commands, code review and hotfixes
- independent-review reviews a diff from a clean context with only the diff, requirement and test results
- harness-experiment runs 1 change at a time and tracks flipped tasks, tokens and cache hit rate
- Installs via ~/.agents/skills/, a local plugin, or /plugin marketplace add MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack in Claude Code
Key numbers (from the repo, Oct 28, 2026)
- 17 skills, 5 checklists, 2 stacks
- 10-point audit for long commands and background tasks
- MIT license; 6 engineering-* skills adapted from Google Engineering Practices stay CC-BY 3.0
Full analysis: marktechpost.com
Repo: MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack
MiniMax Code: MiniMax-AI/minimax-code
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And the code-sdk is open-sourced. Check it out. github.com/MiniMax-AI/minimax-code/tree/main/pack…
MiniMax open-sources MCode Stack, the SKILL.md agent skills behind MiniMax Code (17 skills, MIT) MiniMax published MCode Stack, a repo of workflows, skills and checklists its MiniMax Code team uses day to day. Each piece pairs with an "MCode Engineering Notes" article and installs as a skill.md skill. It holds no MiniMax Code source, only the harness practices around it. What it does - Ships 2 stacks: Ronny's (MiniMax Code R&D lead, 15 skills) and Jiachen's (2 skills) - Covers subagent splits, tool and context budgets, long sessions, long shell commands, code review and hotfixes - independent-review reviews a diff from a clean context with only the diff, requirement and test results - harness-experiment runs 1 change at a time and tracks flipped tasks, tokens and cache hit rate - Installs via ~/.agents/skills/, a local plugin, or /plugin marketplace add MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack in Claude Code Key numbers (from the repo, Oct 28, 2026) - 17 skills, 5 checklists, 2 stacks - 10-point audit for long commands and background tasks - MIT license; 6 engineering-* skills adapted from Google Engineering Practices stay CC-BY 3.0 Full analysis: marktechpost.com Repo: MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack MiniMax Code: MiniMax-AI/minimax-code
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