MiniMax open-sources agent skills for coding
MarkTechPost: MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, the workflows and agent skills its team uses to build MiniMax Code. The MiniMax MCode Stack agent skills went public on October 28, 2026 under the MIT license. It is not a prompt collection. Each piece is a SKILL.md skill or checklist that installs directly into MiniMax Code. For developers, it turns harness engineering habits into steps an agent can actually run. TL;DR Size: 2 stacks, 17 skills (15 from Ronny, 2 from Jiachen), 5 checklists, 5 compan
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MiniMax has released a collection of 17 agent skills and 5 checklists as open-source code under an MIT license. These skills represent workflows and engineering practices that MiniMax's coding team uses daily, formatted as runnable instructions that can be installed into coding agents like MiniMax Code or Claude Code without requiring specialized hardware. The skills focus on practical engineering tasks including planning, code review, managing long sessions, and handling experiments, with notable examples like independent-review, which deliberately limits reviewer context to prevent repeating the author's mistakes. Because no performance benchmarks have been published, the source text recommends treating this as a playbook of engineering practices rather than proven performance improvements.
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