mcode-stack: the MiniMax Code team's skills and workflows

Summary

MiniMax published the skills and workflows its MiniMax Code team uses to build its own coding agent. There are two "stacks": ronny (about 13 skills for planning, context management, long sessions, review, and experiments) and jiachen (lifting-loops and making-content). Four Engineering Notes articles explain the practices behind them. The repo is new (8 commits, about 290 stars on 2026-10-29; the date above is when it first appeared in the trends report, about 2026-10-28).

Key points

• Install in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack, then /plugin install ronny@mcode-stack.
• Other agents: the skills use the common SKILL.md format; copy a skill folder into your agent's skills directory (for example cp -R mcode-stack/stacks/ronny/skills/long-command-check ~/.agents/skills/). There are no Codex-specific instructions.
• Good for: long agent sessions and context management, which are the areas the ronny stack focuses on. Some skills are checklists, also provided as plain text in checklists/.
• Licence: MIT, except where a stack's NOTICE.md says otherwise; the engineering-* skills adapt Google's Engineering Practices under CC-BY 3.0.
• Includes a validator (scripts/check.mjs) run in CI, and a template for contributing a stack.

Why it matters

It is a rare look at how a model vendor's own agent team works day to day, packaged so you can install it. It is very new, so expect changes.