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+# MiniMax Provider Shape
+
+Last updated: dev@28d27ee | 2026-07-17
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+## Scope
+
+Canonical provider ID `minimax`; international host `api.minimax.io`, China
+host `api.minimaxi.com`; current OpenAI-compatible and recommended
+Anthropic-compatible text transports. Odysseus contains MiniMax-oriented tool
+output handling and local-serving guidance but no dedicated catalog reader.
+
+## Catalog Shape
+
+Current `GET /v1/models` is an OpenAI-compatible identity list:
+`object: list`, `data[]`, and model cards containing `id`, `object: model`,
+`created`, and `owned_by: minimax`. The `owned_by` discriminator identifies the
+provider shape, but the card exposes no per-model capability or modality
+fields. Keep these records unknown and preserve raw identity metadata.
+
+Do not backfill current model capabilities, token limits, or modalities from
+the platform overview into this list response. Those tables are useful scoped
+registry evidence only after model/version identity and freshness are carried
+explicitly.
+
+## Request And Response Shape
+
+- OpenAI compatibility uses `/v1/chat/completions` and structured
+  `reasoning_content` alongside normal message content.
+- Anthropic compatibility uses `/anthropic/v1/messages`; the current M2.7
+  family supports typed thinking blocks and interleaved thinking, making this
+  the preferred reasoning/tool-continuation transport in provider guidance.
+- Native audio, image, video, music, and file endpoints are separate product
+  shapes. They must not be inferred from presence in the text model list.
+
+## Local Deployments
+
+The current provider guide documents vLLM, SGLang, and MLX deployment. Those
+instances retain serving-engine identity and configuration-derived capability;
+the checkpoint name alone does not turn a vLLM/SGLang card into the hosted
+MiniMax provider shape.
+
+## Fallback And Current Gaps
+
+Exact MiniMax hosts or the discriminating `owned_by: minimax` model-list shape
+select provider identity. Unknown compatible proxies retain the general shape.
+The identity list does not safely distinguish M2 reasoning behavior from
+speech/image/video/music products, so exact model quirks remain documentation
+until structured model-version evidence reaches runtime request builders.