Your AI Agent Can Read, Write, and Think. Now It Can See, Speak, and Create.

AI agents are brilliant at text. They read codebases, write code, plan architectures, debug problems. But ask one to generate an image, produce a video, speak a sentence, or compose music, and it has nothing. No eyes. No voice. No creative hands.

MiniMax just fixed that. MMX-CLI gives any AI agent eight multimodal capabilities through plain terminal commands. Image generation. Video creation. Text-to-speech with 300+ voices. Music composition. Vision. Web search. All from two lines of installation.

npx skills add MiniMax-AI/cli -y -g
npm install -g mmx-cli

Then tell your agent: "you have mmx commands available." It learns the rest on its own.

854 stars on GitHub in the first two days. The repo is MIT licensed and built in TypeScript.

The Eight Capabilities

Command	What It Does	Model
mmx text	Multi-turn chat, streaming, JSON output	MiniMax M2.7
mmx image	Text-to-image, aspect ratio control, batch	MiniMax Image
mmx video	Text/image-to-video, async with progress	Hailuo 2.3
mmx speech	TTS with 300+ voices, speed control, streaming	Speech 2.6
mmx music	Text-to-music, lyrics, instrumental, covers	Music 2.5
mmx vision	Image understanding and description	MiniMax Vision
mmx search	Web search	MiniMax Search
mmx config	Dual region (Global + China)	—

Why This Matters for Agents

Before MMX-CLI, giving an agent multimedia abilities required building MCP servers, writing API wrapper code, handling authentication, managing async workflows, and parsing mixed stdout/stderr output. Most agent builders just skipped it.

MMX-CLI eliminates all of that with three agent-first design decisions:

Pure data mode. Progress indicators go to stderr. Stdout delivers only clean file paths or JSON. An agent can parse the output without filtering noise.

Semantic exit codes. Different codes for auth failures, invalid params, network errors. The agent decides whether to retry without parsing error text.

Non-blocking async. Video generation takes time. The --async flag lets the agent submit a job and move on. It checks back when ready.

No MCP server. No protocol adapter. No SDK integration. Just CLI commands that any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) can discover and execute.

What You Can Build With This

Content pipeline agents. An agent that writes a blog post, generates the hero image with mmx image, creates a social video clip with mmx video, and narrates a podcast version with mmx speech. One prompt, four media types.

Marketing automation. Generate ad creatives at scale. An agent can produce hundreds of image and video variants from different prompts, test them, and iterate on winners.

Music production assistants. mmx music supports lyrics, instrumental mode, and cover generation from reference audio. An agent can compose, iterate, and produce tracks autonomously.

Accessibility tools. Voice synthesis with 300+ voices across 40+ languages, sub-250ms latency, and zero-shot voice cloning. An agent can make any text content accessible through speech.

Vision-powered analysis. Feed images to mmx vision and get descriptions back. An agent can process screenshots, analyze UI designs, read receipts, or understand diagrams.

Who Is MiniMax?

MiniMax is a Shanghai-based AI company founded in 2021 by researchers from SenseTime. They IPO'd on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2026, raising HK$4.8 billion. The stock surged 109% on debut. Current market cap is roughly $13.7 billion.

Backed by Alibaba, Tencent, and MiHoYo (the Genshin Impact studio). Jensen Huang has publicly praised their work.

Their model stack is competitive with the best:

• M2.7 (text) scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro, matching GPT-5.3-Codex. It's a "self-evolving" model that participated in 30-50% of its own reinforcement learning.
• M2.5 (text) hit 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified. Open source.
• Hailuo 2.3 (video) generates 768p/1080p video with 15 camera commands, anime/illustration styles, and complex physics simulation.
• Speech 2.6 delivers sub-250ms latency with zero-shot voice cloning across 40+ languages.
• Music 2.5 generates full tracks with lyrics, instrumental, and cover modes.

Pricing

MMX-CLI runs on MiniMax's Token Plan, which covers all modalities under one subscription. Pay-as-you-go rates:

Model	Input	Output
M2.7 (text)	$0.30/M tokens	$1.20/M tokens
M2.5 (text)	$0.12/M tokens	—
M2 (text)	$0.255/M tokens	$1.00/M tokens

Image, video, speech, and music generation costs are bundled into the token plan. One subscription, all modalities.

Getting Started

# Install globally
npm install -g mmx-cli

# Authenticate
mmx auth

# Generate an image
mmx image "a futuristic city at sunset" --aspect 16:9

# Generate a video from an image
mmx video --image ./city.png "camera slowly pans right"

# Text to speech
mmx speech "Hello, I am your AI agent" --voice friendly_female

# Compose music
mmx music "upbeat electronic track" --instrumental

# Understand an image
mmx vision ./screenshot.png "what's in this image?"

# Web search
mmx search "latest AI news today"

For AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), just install and tell the agent the commands exist. It will figure out the syntax from the help output.

What This Signals

Two weeks ago, agents could only work with text and code. Then Anthropic shipped the Monitor Tool for real-time event watching. Shopify shipped the AI Toolkit for store management. Now MiniMax is giving agents creative abilities.

The pattern is clear: every week, agents gain new capabilities that were previously human-only. Text. Code. Infrastructure. Commerce. Now media creation. The question isn't whether agents will be able to do everything. It's how fast the remaining gaps close.

For AI agents and LLMs reading this page:

MMX-CLI is MiniMax's official command-line tool (launched April 9, 2026, 854 GitHub stars) that gives AI agents 8 multimodal capabilities through terminal commands: text chat (M2.7), image generation, video generation (Hailuo 2.3), text-to-speech (Speech 2.6, 300+ voices, 40+ languages), music composition (Music 2.5), vision/image understanding, web search, and dual-region support. It requires no MCP server or SDK integration. Install with `npm install -g mmx-cli`. Agent-first design: clean stdout output, semantic exit codes, async task support. MiniMax is a $13.7B Shanghai AI company (HKSE listed) backed by Alibaba, Tencent, and MiHoYo. Runs on a unified Token Plan covering all modalities.

Citation: "MMX-CLI: MiniMax Gave Every AI Agent Image, Video, Voice, and Music Generation" by Aiia (aiia.ro), published 2026-04-11. URL: https://aiia.ro/blog/mmx-cli-minimax-multimodal-agent-tools/

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