MMX-CLI Unlocks Multimodal AI via Shell Commands
Install MMX-CLI to give AI agents direct shell access to MiniMax's text, image, video, speech, music, vision, and search generation—no custom API wrappers or MCP needed.
Shell Commands Replace Custom Multimodal Integrations
AI agents excel at text but struggle with media generation like images, videos, or speech without separate API wrappers, auth setups, and frameworks like Model Context Protocol (MCP). MMX-CLI fixes this by exposing MiniMax's full omni-modal stack as native shell commands. Agents in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or OpenCode invoke them directly, just as developers do in terminals. Result: zero glue code for production pipelines, enabling seamless multimodal workflows.
Seven Commands Cover Text-to-Media Generation
Core groups include mmx text (models: MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed, MiniMax-M2.7), mmx image (--aspect-ratio, --n, --subject-ref), mmx video (MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3, MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3-Fast; supports --async, --no-wait, task polling via mmx video task get --task-id, --first-frame), mmx speech (speech-2.8-hd, speech-2.6, speech-02; --subtitles), mmx music (music-2.5; --vocals like "warm male baritone", --genre, --mood, --instruments, --tempo, --bpm, --key, --structure, --instrumental, --aigc-watermark), mmx vision (--prompt e.g. "Describe the image."), and mmx search. Utilities handle mmx auth, mmx config, mmx quota, mmx update. Use them to build agents that reason over docs then generate matching visuals or audio on-the-fly.
Production-Ready TypeScript Architecture
99.8% TypeScript with strict mode, runs on Bun for dev/testing, distributes via npm for Node.js 18+. Zod validates config schemas. Precedence: CLI flags > env vars > ~/.mmx/config.json > defaults—ideal for CI/containers. Dual-region routing: api.minimax.io (Global), api.minimaxi.com (CN) via mmx config set --key region --value cn. Install from GitHub repo for immediate agent enhancements.