MiniMax open-sources terminal coding agent Code CLI v0.4.12 under MIT

On September 18, MiniMax officially open-sourced its terminal coding agent MiniMax Code CLI v0.4.12 on GitHub (repo MiniMax-AI/minimax-code) under the MIT license, making it available to developers worldwide. The company reports a 76.7% task pass rate on Frontier Harness Eval with a median successful task time of 4 minutes 3 seconds. The move marks MiniMax's entry into the AI coding tool market and is read by the community as a response to recent privacy debates around coding agents.

Confirmed

The version is v0.4.12 (community posts also call it 0.4.12 source preview), open-sourced under MIT and available globally.
It is a terminal coding agent: it handles full workflows in the command line including understanding projects, editing code, and running tests, and supports MiniMax accounts.
Per @Binaryorchid, the open-source release includes the terminal TUI, headless execution, code editing, and shell capabilities; the product targets long-horizon tasks, multi-agent collaboration, and iterative verification, with the community eyeing the next release M3.1.
The company reports a 76.7% pass rate on Frontier Harness Eval with a median successful task time of 4 minutes 3 seconds, which it calls a SOTA pass rate.

Why it matters

Per @NoIssue8224, the release responds to recent discussions about how coding agents verify what they read, send, and store; the MIT license makes the agent layer auditable, addressing community concerns over privacy and trustworthiness.
The move positions MiniMax against rival coding tools; former MiniMax product lead RenLeanna reshared the announcement and called on the community to explore better agent paradigms together.

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MiniMax open-sources Code CLI terminal coding agent under MIT license — MiniMax_AI · 2026-09-18 20:50 (UTC+08:00)
MiniMax open-sources Code CLI v0.4.12 under MIT with 76.7% task pass rate — MiniMax 稀宇科技 · 2026-09-18 20:25 (UTC+08:00)
MiniMax open-sources terminal MiniMax Code agent under MIT amid privacy scrutiny — No_Issue_8224 · 2026-09-18 22:44 (UTC+08:00)

[source] MiniMax open-sources Code CLI v0.4.12 under MIT with 76.7% task pass rate — MiniMax 稀宇科技 · 2026-09-18
[source] MiniMax open-sources Code CLI terminal coding agent under MIT license — MiniMax_AI · 2026-09-18
[source] MiniMax open-sources terminal MiniMax Code agent under MIT amid privacy scrutiny — No_Issue_8224 · 2026-09-18
MiniMax Code CLI is now open, inviting exploration of new agent paradigms — MiniMax_AI · 2026-09-18
MiniMax open-sources its MiniMax Code terminal coding agent under MIT, community eyes M3.1 — Binary_orchid · 2026-09-19

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