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MiniMax AI Skills - Setup Guide

Source: minimax-ai/skills via skills.sh - 48.3K combined installs across 24 indexed listings; first seen Oct 9, 2026 (extended-query probe) GitHub: minimax-ai/skills (13,683 stars, MIT; pushed 2026-04-18; layout skills/<name>/SKILL.md) Category: Development / Documents / Multimodal Quality Tier: 🟡 Beta - official MiniMax; README marks Beta; last pushed Apr 2026; mixed sampled verdicts - see Security

MiniMax AI Skills is the official skill suite from MiniMax, aimed at AI coding agents. It covers structured, production-quality guidance for frontend, fullstack, Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, and shader development, plus a document and media family: PowerPoint, Word, PDF, and Excel generators alongside image, voice, music, and video workflows that call MiniMax APIs.

The suite is distinct from its video-focused sibling: minimax-ai/minimax-h3 is a separate, documented repo for AI video prompt writing and generation, while this repo is the development and document suite. Across the 24 indexed listings, the document generators dominate the install chart, followed by the web and mobile development skills.

Installation

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills
claude plugin install minimax-skills

Cursor

git clone https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills.git ~/.cursor/minimax-skills

Then point the skills path in your Cursor settings at ~/.cursor/minimax-skills/skills/. Windows setup details live in the repo's .cursor-plugin/INSTALL.md.

Codex

git clone https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills.git ~/.codex/minimax-skills

mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills
ln -s ~/.codex/minimax-skills/skills ~/.agents/skills/minimax-skills

Restart Codex to discover the skills; see .codex/INSTALL.md for Windows instructions and details.

OpenCode

git clone https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills.git ~/.minimax-skills

mkdir -p ~/.config/opencode/skills
ln -s ~/.minimax-skills/skills/* ~/.config/opencode/skills/

Restart OpenCode to discover the skills; .opencode/INSTALL.md has the details.

VS Code

No standalone VS Code extension is shipped. Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in the integrated terminal, or use Cursor for native local-skills configuration.

What It Provides

Skill Installs Use For
pptx-generator 5,814 Generating, editing, and reading PowerPoint decks: PptxGenJS creation, XML edits, markitdown text extraction
minimax-docx 4,444 DOCX creation, editing, and formatting via OpenXML SDK; three pipelines with an XSD validation gate
minimax-pdf 3,742 Creating, filling, and reformatting PDFs with a token-based design system and 15 cover styles
minimax-xlsx 3,721 Spreadsheets end to end: XML-template creation, pandas analysis, zero-format-loss editing, formula recalculation
fullstack-dev 3,340 Backend architecture and frontend-backend integration: REST, auth, real-time, databases, release checklist
frontend-dev 3,118 Premium UI with cinematic animation (Framer Motion, GSAP) and AI-generated media on React/Next.js plus Tailwind
vision-analysis 2,624 Image analysis: describe, OCR, UI mockup review, chart extraction (Community; MiniMax VL API with GPT-4V fallback)
android-native-dev 2,615 Native Android with Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, Material Design 3, accessibility, and performance work
shader-dev 2,375 GLSL effects: ray marching, SDF modeling, fluid simulation, particles, post-processing (ShaderToy-compatible)
ios-application-dev 2,102 iOS apps with UIKit, SnapKit, and SwiftUI; Dynamic Type, Dark Mode, and HIG compliance
gif-sticker-maker 2,002 Turning photos into 4 animated GIF stickers with captions via MiniMax image and video APIs
flutter-dev 1,948 Cross-platform Flutter: widgets, Riverpod/Bloc, GoRouter, and testing strategies
react-native-dev 1,888 React Native and Expo: components, navigation, state, networking, deployment, and SDK upgrades
pr-review 1,726 Automated validation checks and quality review criteria for pull requests
mmx-cli 1,606 MiniMax command-line workflows
minimax-music-gen 1,566 Vocal songs, instrumentals, and covers via the MiniMax Music API, with basic and advanced-control modes

The remaining 8 indexed listings range from 71 to 1,332 installs.

Why This Matters for Hermes Agents

Most agent skill libraries stop at software scaffolding; this one ships a content factory too. Seven development skills span web, fullstack, native mobile (Android and iOS), cross-platform (Flutter and React Native), and GLSL shaders - targets that many libraries skip entirely - with performance, accessibility, and testing guidance. The document skills follow real pipelines rather than loose prompting: PPTX built through PptxGenJS and XML workflows, DOCX through OpenXML with an XSD validation gate, XLSX with zero-format-loss editing and formula recalculation. That structure is what agent builders need for output that survives contact with a stakeholder: deterministic steps, validation, and format fidelity. Media skills then round out the suite by calling MiniMax APIs for images, voice, music, and video, so one install can generate the assets a build needs, not just the code around them.

Usage

You say What happens
Build the deck for our board update pptx-generator creates a full deck from scratch: cover, table of contents, content, section dividers, summary
Turn this CSV export into a formatted report minimax-xlsx analyzes with pandas and applies financial formatting without losing the original file's format
Fill in this PDF form and restyle it minimax-pdf fills form fields, then reformats the document with print-ready typography
Scaffold a landing page with cinematic animation frontend-dev pairs React/Next.js and Tailwind patterns with Framer Motion and GSAP
Review this GLSL fragment shader shader-dev covers techniques from ray marching through post-processing
Turn my pet photos into chat stickers gif-sticker-maker returns 4 animated GIF stickers with captions
Write a launch song for our product minimax-music-gen generates a vocal track or instrumental from a one-line prompt

Verification

In Claude Code, confirm minimax-skills appears in the /plugin list after installing. For Codex and OpenCode, check that the symlink resolves (~/.agents/skills/minimax-skills and ~/.config/opencode/skills/); for Cursor, confirm the configured skills path points at ~/.cursor/minimax-skills/skills/. Before installing, review the exact instructions the agent will read - skills live at skills/<name>/SKILL.md. For example, fetch the PowerPoint generator skill file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minimax-ai/skills/main/skills/pptx-generator/SKILL.md (verified reachable Oct 10, 2026).

Security

skills.sh verdicts for sampled skills (verified Oct 10, 2026) - re-check the security pages on skills.sh before production use:

Skill Gen Agent Trust Hub Socket Snyk
pptx-generator Warn Pass Warn
minimax-docx Pass Pass Warn
minimax-pdf Pass Warn Pass

Integration with CorpusIQ

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This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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Limitations

  • Sampled verdicts are mixed: Gen Agent Trust Hub Warn and Snyk Warn on pptx-generator, Snyk Warn on minimax-docx; only three skills were sampled.
  • Beta status is explicit in the README: skills, APIs, and configuration formats may change without notice.
  • Last pushed 2026-04-18, so parts of the suite may lag current MiniMax model and API versions.
  • Media-generation skills call MiniMax APIs at runtime and are not self-contained.
  • vision-analysis is marked Community (not Official) in the README's source column.
  • VS Code gets no standalone extension; the README routes VS Code users through Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in the integrated terminal.
  • Snapshot data, verified Oct 10, 2026: 48,257 combined installs across 24 indexed listings; 13,683 GitHub stars; MIT; last pushed 2026-04-18. Counts drift over time.

Pro Tips

  • Claude Code users do not need a clone: claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills then claude plugin install minimax-skills.
  • Install the four document generators (pptx, docx, pdf, xlsx) as a group; they share conventions and cover adjacent handoffs.
  • pr-review doubles as the repo's own contribution gate: run python .claude/skills/pr-review/scripts/validate_skills.py to see the checks it enforces.
  • For Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode the path is clone plus symlink; follow the per-tool INSTALL.md files, especially for Windows.
  • Try gif-sticker-maker or minimax-music-gen first if you want to see the MiniMax API workflows in action before wiring them into a pipeline.

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