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On October 22, 2026, MiniMax launched Mini App in local sessions of the MiniMax Code desktop application (macOS / Windows). According to the official introduction, Mini App is a resident application with a frontend and a Node.js backend, installed as a plugin, that can call and be called by the Agent, keeping work on persistently alive pages rather than scattered across conversations. This release includes the Mini App runtime (persistent data directory, hosted MCP, Agent API, Host Connectors, and in-page tool approval), /miniapp-creator for generating pages with a single sentence, and the official Mini Apps in the plugin marketplace along with the open-source community repository MiniMax-Code-MiniApps. The official statement says account credentials are kept by the host and cannot be accessed by plugins or pages, and content passed from a page to the Agent first enters the input box for review. There are currently no facts about subsequent developments.
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MiniMax Code Desktop Launches Mini App
MiniMax has launched Mini App in local sessions of the MiniMax Code desktop app (macOS / Windows). It is a persistent application with a frontend and a Node.js backend, installed as a plugin, that can call and be called by the Agent, keeping work on a continuously alive page rather than scattered across conversations. This release includes the Mini App runtime (persistent data directory, hosted MCP, Agent API, Host Connectors, and in-page tool approval), /miniapp-creator for generating a page with a single sentence, and the official Mini Apps in the plugin marketplace and the open-source community repository MiniMax-Code-MiniApps. According to the official announcement, account credentials are kept by the host and cannot be accessed by plugins or pages, and content passed from a page to the Agent first enters the input box for review.