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MiniMax-MCP

MiniMax官方模型上下文协议(MCP)服务器,支持与强大的文本转语音和视频/图像生成API交互。允许MCP客户端如Claude Desktop、Cursor、Windsurf、OpenAI Agents等生成语音、克隆声音、生成视频、生成图像等功能。

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Official MiniMax Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables interaction with powerful Text to Speech and video/image generation APIs. This server allows MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI Agents and others to generate speech, clone voices, generate video, generate image and more.

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Quickstart with MCP Client

  1. Get your API key from MiniMax.
  2. Install uv (Python package manager), install with curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh or see the uv repo for additional install methods.

Claude Desktop

Go to Claude > Settings > Developer > Edit Config > claude_desktop_config.json to include the following:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "MiniMax": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "minimax-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MINIMAX_API_KEY": "<insert-your-api-key-here>",
        "MINIMAX_MCP_BASE_PATH": "<local-output-dir-path>",
        "MINIMAX_API_HOST": "https://api.minimaxi.chat",
        "MINIMAX_API_RESOURCE_MODE": "<optional, [url|local], url is default, audio/image/video are downloaded locally or provided in URL format>"
      }
    }
  }
}

⚠️ Warning: The API key needs to match the host. If an error "API Error: invalid api key" occurs, please check your api host:

  • Global Host:​https://api.minimaxi.chat (note the extra "i")
  • Mainland Host:​https://api.minimax.chat

If you're using Windows, you will have to enable "Developer Mode" in Claude Desktop to use the MCP server. Click "Help" in the hamburger menu in the top left and select "Enable Developer Mode".

Cursor

Go to Cursor -> Preferences -> Cursor Settings -> MCP -> Add new global MCP Server to add above config.

That's it. Your MCP client can now interact with MiniMax through these tools:

Transport

We support two transport types: stdio and sse. | stdio | SSE | |:-----|:-----| | Run locally | Can be deployed locally or in the cloud | | Communication through stdout | Communication through network | | Input: Supports processing local files or valid URL resources | Input: When deployed in the cloud, it is recommended to use URL for input |

Available Tools

| tool | description | |-|-| |text_to_audio|Convert text to audio with a given voice| |list_voices|List all voices available| |voice_clone|Clone a voice using provided audio files| |generate_video|Generate a video from a prompt| |text_to_image|Generate a image from a prompt|

Example usage

⚠️ Warning: Using these tools may incur costs.

1. broadcast a segment of the evening news

2. clone a voice

3. generate a video

4. generate images

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Runtime guide

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Hosted runtime

Hosted servers run from a provider-managed environment. You usually connect the MCP client to the hosted endpoint or follow the provider's authorization flow, without keeping a local process alive

  1. Open provider connection page
  2. Authorize or copy endpoint
  3. Connect from your MCP client
terminal

Local runtime / other methods

Local servers run on your own machine or infrastructure. You normally copy the server_config into your MCP client, install the required package, and provide env variables from env_schema when needed

  1. Copy server_config
  2. Install required package
  3. Fill env variables and restart client