cli-anything-minimax

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Command-line interface for MiniMax AI — chat (MiniMax-M2.7) and TTS (speech-2.8-hd) via the MiniMax API.

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npx skill4agent add hkuds/cli-anything cli-anything-minimax

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cli-anything-minimax

A CLI harness for MiniMax AI — providing chat completions and text-to-speech synthesis through the MiniMax API.

Installation

bash
pip install git+https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git#subdirectory=minimax/agent-harness
Prerequisites:

Usage

Basic Commands

bash
# Show help
cli-anything-minimax --help

# Start interactive REPL
cli-anything-minimax

# Chat with MiniMax-M2.7
cli-anything-minimax chat --prompt "What is AI?"

# High-speed model
cli-anything-minimax chat --prompt "Quick answer" --model MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed

# Stream chat response
cli-anything-minimax stream --prompt "Write a poem about code"

# Synthesize speech
cli-anything-minimax tts --text "Hello world" --output hello.mp3

# JSON output for agents
cli-anything-minimax --json chat --prompt "Hello"

Command Groups

Chat

CommandDescription
chat
Chat with MiniMax LLM
stream
Stream chat completion

TTS

CommandDescription
tts
Synthesize text to speech (hex-decoded MP3 via SSE)
voices
List available voice IDs

Session

CommandDescription
session status
Show session status
session clear
Clear session history
session history
Show command history

Config

CommandDescription
config set
Set a configuration value
config get
Get a configuration value (or show all)
config delete
Delete a configuration value
config path
Show the config file path

Utility

CommandDescription
test
Test API connectivity
models
List chat models
models --tts
List TTS models

Examples

Configure API Key

bash
export MINIMAX_API_KEY="your-api-key"
# or
cli-anything-minimax config set api_key "your-api-key"

Chat

bash
cli-anything-minimax chat --prompt "Explain quantum computing"
cli-anything-minimax stream --prompt "Write a Python quicksort"

TTS

bash
cli-anything-minimax tts --text "Hello!" --output hello.mp3
cli-anything-minimax tts --text "Fast" --model speech-2.8-turbo --voice English_Insightful_Speaker --output fast.mp3

Chat Models

Model IDDescription
MiniMax-M2.7
Peak Performance. Ultimate Value. (default)
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed
Same performance, faster and more agile

TTS Models

Model IDDescription
speech-2.8-hd
High-definition TTS (default)
speech-2.8-turbo
Fast TTS

For AI Agents

  1. Always use 
    --json
    flag     for parseable output
  2. Check return codes — 0 for success, non-zero for errors
  3. Parse stderr for error messages on failure
  4. Use absolute paths for TTS output files

Version

1.0.0