MiniMax OAuth

Tutou Agent supports MiniMax through a browser-based OAuth login flow, using the same credentials as the MiniMax portal. No API key or credit card is required — log in once and Tutou automatically refreshes your session.

The transport reuses the anthropic_messages adapter (MiniMax exposes an Anthropic Messages-compatible endpoint at /anthropic), so all existing tool-calling, streaming, and context features work without any adapter changes.

Overview

Item	Value
Provider ID	minimax-oauth
Display name	MiniMax (OAuth)
Auth type	Browser OAuth (PKCE redirect flow)
Transport	Anthropic Messages-compatible (anthropic_messages)
Models	MiniMax-M2.7, MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed
Global endpoint	https://api.minimax.io/anthropic
China endpoint	https://api.minimaxi.com/anthropic
Requires env var	No (MINIMAX_API_KEY is not used for this provider)

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• Tutou Agent installed
• A MiniMax account at minimax.io (global) or minimaxi.com (China)
• A browser available on the local machine (or use --no-browser for remote sessions)

Quick Start

# Launch the provider and model picker
tutou model
# → Select "MiniMax (OAuth)" from the provider list
# → Tutou opens your browser to the MiniMax authorization page
# → Approve access in the browser
# → Select a model (MiniMax-M2.7 or MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed)
# → Start chatting

tutou

After the first login, credentials are stored under ~/.tutou/auth.json and are refreshed automatically before each session.

Logging In Manually

You can trigger a login without going through the model picker:

tutou auth add minimax-oauth

China region

If your account is on the China platform (minimaxi.com), use the API-key-based minimax-cn provider instead — minimax-cn is registered with auth_type="api_key" only (no OAuth flow). Configure MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY (and optionally MINIMAX_CN_BASE_URL) directly:

echo 'MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY=your-key' >> ~/.tutou/.env

Remote / headless sessions

On servers or containers where no browser is available:

tutou auth add minimax-oauth --no-browser

Tutou will print the verification URL and user code — open the URL on any device and enter the code when prompted.

The OAuth Flow

Tutou implements a PKCE browser OAuth flow against the MiniMax OAuth endpoints:

1. Tutou generates a PKCE verifier / challenge pair and a random state value.
2. It POSTs to {base_url}/oauth/code with the challenge and receives a user_code and verification_uri.
3. Your browser opens verification_uri. If prompted, enter the user_code.
4. Tutou polls {base_url}/oauth/token until the token arrives (or the deadline passes).
5. Tokens (access_token, refresh_token, expiry) are saved to ~/.tutou/auth.json under the minimax-oauth key.

Token refresh (standard OAuth refresh_token grant) runs automatically at each session start when the access token is within 60 seconds of expiry.

Checking Login Status

tutou doctor

The ◆ Auth Providers section will show:

✓ MiniMax OAuth  (logged in, region=global)

or, if not logged in:

⚠ MiniMax OAuth  (not logged in)

Switching Models

tutou model
# → Select "MiniMax (OAuth)"
# → Pick from the model list

Or set the model directly:

tutou config set model.default MiniMax-M2.7
tutou config set model.provider minimax-oauth

Configuration Reference

After login, ~/.tutou/config.yaml will contain entries similar to:

model:
  default: MiniMax-M2.7
  provider: minimax-oauth
  base_url: https://api.minimax.io/anthropic

Region endpoints

Provider id	Portal	Inference endpoint
minimax-oauth (global)	https://api.minimax.io	https://api.minimax.io/anthropic
minimax-cn (China)	https://api.minimaxi.com	https://api.minimaxi.com/anthropic

Provider aliases

All of the following resolve to minimax-oauth:

tutou --provider minimax-oauth    # canonical
tutou --provider minimax-portal   # alias
tutou --provider minimax-global   # alias
tutou --provider minimax_oauth    # alias (underscore form)

Environment Variables

The minimax-oauth provider does not use MINIMAX_API_KEY or MINIMAX_BASE_URL. Those variables are for the API-key-based minimax and minimax-cn providers only.

Variable	Effect
MINIMAX_API_KEY	Used by minimax provider only — ignored for minimax-oauth
MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY	Used by minimax-cn provider only — ignored for minimax-oauth

To use minimax-oauth as the active provider, set model.provider: minimax-oauth in config.yaml (use tutou setup for the guided flow), or pass --provider minimax-oauth for a single invocation:

tutou --provider minimax-oauth

Models

Model	Best for
MiniMax-M2.7	Long-context reasoning, complex tool-calling
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed	Lower latency, lighter tasks, auxiliary calls

Both models support up to 200,000 tokens of context.

MiniMax-M2.7 is also used automatically as the auxiliary model for vision and delegation tasks when minimax-oauth is the primary provider.

Troubleshooting

Token expired — not re-logging in automatically

Tutou refreshes the token on every session start if it is within 60 seconds of expiry. If the access token is already expired (for example, after a long offline period), the refresh happens automatically on the next request. If refresh fails with refresh_token_reused or invalid_grant, Tutou marks the session as requiring re-login.

When the refresh failure is terminal (HTTP 4xx, invalid_grant, revoked grant, etc.), Tutou marks the refresh token as dead and quarantines it locally so it doesn't keep replaying the doomed exchange. The agent surfaces a single "re-authentication required" message and stays out of the way until you log in again.

Fix: run tutou auth add minimax-oauth again to start a fresh login. The quarantine clears on the next successful exchange.

Authorization timed out

The device-code flow has a finite expiry window. If you don't approve the login in time, Tutou raises a timeout error.

Fix: re-run tutou auth add minimax-oauth (or tutou model). The flow starts fresh.

State mismatch (possible CSRF)

Tutou detected that the state value returned by the authorization server does not match what it sent.

Fix: re-run the login. If it persists, check for a proxy or redirect that is modifying the OAuth response.

Logging in from a remote server

If tutou cannot open a browser window, use --no-browser:

tutou auth add minimax-oauth --no-browser

Tutou prints the URL and code. Open the URL on any device and complete the flow there.

"Not logged into MiniMax OAuth" error at runtime

The auth store has no credentials for minimax-oauth. You have not logged in yet, or the credential file was deleted.

Fix: run tutou model and select MiniMax (OAuth), or run tutou auth add minimax-oauth.

"Provider 'minimax-oauth' is set in config.yaml but no credentials were found"

The main agent or an auxiliary task (compression, vision, …) is pinned to minimax-oauth and the auth store has no login. There is no MINIMAX_API_KEY-style environment variable for the OAuth provider — MINIMAX_API_KEY belongs to the plain API-key minimax provider.

Fix: run tutou auth add minimax-oauth to sign in, or switch that provider to minimax with an API key.

Logging Out

To remove stored MiniMax OAuth credentials:

tutou auth logout minimax-oauth

See Also

• AI Providers reference
• Environment Variables
• Configuration
• tutou doctor