agento
A terminal AI agent for MiniMax's models, written in Go and modelled on Claude Code.
A chat agent that runs in the terminal on MiniMax's language models, modelled on Claude Code (and not affiliated with it). Replies stream into a Bubble Tea interface, and ten built-in tools let it read and edit files, run shell commands and search the web. Every conversation is kept in a local SQLite database, so a session can be resumed, switched or rewound. It builds to one binary for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Status
- Working, at version 0.3.0, and not published anywhere yet. Trying it needs your own MiniMax API key.
Worth knowing§
- 105 commits in five days, from 7 to 11 July 2026.
- 440 Go test functions, and more lines of tests (about 11,200) than of the program itself (about 10,500).
How it works§
- 01
It talks to MiniMax through the official Anthropic Go SDK, because MiniMax offers an Anthropic-compatible endpoint: only the base URL changes, and one setting picks the China or the international region.
- 02
A failed request is retried — up to three times, with backoff, for rate limits, overloads and dropped connections — only until the first piece of the answer arrives. After that a failure is reported as an incomplete reply, since retrying would print the answer twice.
- 03
The tool loop has hard limits: at most 10 tool turns per message, and only the last 50 messages go to the model. If the limit is reached it writes a closing reply itself, so the saved history always ends on a valid turn.
- 04
Plan mode is enforced in code, not in the prompt: while it is on, every tool call comes back as skipped instead of running, so the model can only propose.
- 05
Everything is pure Go, SQLite included (through a pure-Go driver), so it builds with cgo off and cross-compiles to one static binary for three operating systems without a C toolchain.
Built with§
- Go
- Bubble Tea v2
- Lip Gloss v2
- Anthropic Go SDK
- MiniMax API
- SQLite (pure Go), also used in Datacenter Tracker, Time Manager, Jarvis for Projects, and Ocr-kb-matcher (KIP)
- testify
