MCode Stack

Overview

MCode Stack is the open-source collection of workflows and skills the MiniMax Code team uses to build MiniMax Code. It packages everyday engineering habits as SKILL.md skills, checklists, and WORKFLOW.md files rather than a prompt collection or best-practices list. The repository also acts as a plugin marketplace for installing stacks.

Key Features

• Skills for planning, context and tool budgets, long sessions and commands, review, experiments, and emergency changes
• Stacks contain skills, checklists, and workflows, with ronny as the first and most complete stack and jiachen adding lifting-loops and making-content
• Skills install into MiniMax Code and can be invoked with /skill-name or loaded by the agent from its description
• The repository can be used as a plugin marketplace, with each stack appearing as a plugin that can be installed, updated, or uninstalled
• The common SKILL.md format means most skills also work in other agents that support skills

Use Cases

• Keep AI-written code at a high bar with review, small PR, and change-description skills
• Audit context and tool costs to reduce what is injected into every request
• Manage long sessions and long-running shell commands through checklists and handoff docs
• Run small harness experiments and review agent trajectories

Getting Started

• Clone the repository to ~/mcode-stack, create ~/.agents/skills, and copy a skill directory such as stacks/ronny/skills/long-command-check into it. Open a new MiniMax Code session and type /skills to see it, then run /long-command-check. To install a whole stack as a plugin, copy

Deployment & Requirements

• Primary use is with MiniMax Code; skills are discovered in project directories .minimax/skills, .claude/skills, or .agents/skills and in ~/.agents/skills for all projects. The common SKILL.md format allows most skills to work in other agents that support skills. mcode plugin add

Before You Adopt

• License: MIT. Review its terms before using, modifying, or distributing the project.
• The repository says its contents will keep changing as the team learns.