MiniMax launches Agent Teams for long-running tasks
MiniMax has added multi-agent "Agent Teams" to its desktop agent, now renamed Mavis, to address the stalls, drift and slow replies that it says hold back single agents on long, complex work.
MiniMax announced an upgrade to MiniMax Agent and renamed it Mavis, which the company describes as "MiniMax as a Jarvis." The main addition is Agent Teams. On the MiniMax Agent desktop app, users can run several agents in parallel, give each a role, and have them work together on tasks that one agent cannot finish alone.
The company also merged its TokenPlan and Agent Plan subscriptions. One plan now covers CLI, API and Agent use across M2.7, music, video and voice, and the Agent and API draw on shared credits. Users who subscribed to both plans get an extra month of membership.
Most of the post explains the design. MiniMax says a single agent is "both the judge and the contestant" when it checks its own output. It also says single agents stop partway through tasks, a behaviour it attributes to "context anxiety," and that they degrade or drift over long runs. "Why isn't my Agent replying to me" is the largest single source of user feedback, according to the company, especially when people drive agents through messaging apps.
In the team setup, a main agent replies right away and splits the task into parallel pieces. It decides which results need verification and reports back at checkpoints: started, blocked, decision needed and completed. Users can also add requests while work is still running.
The post does not include benchmarks or measured results. The available text ends before MiniMax discusses the costs of the approach or when users should not use teams.