# MiniMax MMX-CLI — Multimodal CLI for AI Agents

> A CLI that lets AI agents generate images, video, speech, and music with a single natural-language command.

- Org: MiniMax
- Date: 2026-04-12
- Category: tool, repo
- Source: https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/cli
- Canonical page: https://ai-tldr.dev/releases/minimax-mmx-cli/

## In short

MiniMax ships a CLI that gives AI agents native access to seven generative modalities — text, image, video, speech, music, vision, and search — without MCP integration. Works with OpenClaw, Cursor, Claude Code out of the box.

## What it is

MMX-CLI is MiniMax's official command-line interface that wraps the company's full-modal generative stack into seven command groups: mmx text, mmx image, mmx video, mmx speech, mmx music, mmx vision, and mmx search. It is built specifically for AI agents — OpenClaw, Cursor, Claude Code, and similar tools can add it with a single skill-install command and learn the interface from bundled documentation.

## How it works

The CLI exposes MiniMax's APIs through a terminal interface optimized for agent use. It includes non-interactive execution flags, clean stdout/stderr separation for piping, structured exit codes, and a schema-export feature that registers mmx commands as JSON tool definitions. For human developers, it works as a standard CLI with streaming output and progress tracking. Dual-region support covers both Global and China platforms.

## Why it matters

Most agent frameworks still treat media generation as an afterthought — agents can reason and code, but generating an image or synthesizing speech requires custom tool wiring. MMX-CLI makes seven modalities available through a unified interface that agents can learn from a single SKILL.md file. For agent developers, this is the fastest path to multimodal output without building MCP servers or API integrations.

## Who it's for

AI agent developers who want to add multimodal generation capabilities to their agents.

## Try it

npm install -g mmx-cli

## Links

- [Repo](https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/cli)
- [AGENTS.md](https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/cli/blob/main/AGENTS.md)
- [Coverage](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/12/minimax-releases-mmx-cli-a-command-line-interface-that-gives-ai-agents-native-access-to-image-video-speech-music-vision-and-search/)