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+import { completeSimple, type Model } from "@mariozechner/pi-ai";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+const MINIMAX_KEY = process.env.MINIMAX_API_KEY ?? "";
+const MINIMAX_BASE_URL =
+  process.env.MINIMAX_BASE_URL?.trim() || "https://api.minimax.io/v1";
+const MINIMAX_MODEL = process.env.MINIMAX_MODEL?.trim() || "minimax-m2.1";
+const LIVE = process.env.MINIMAX_LIVE_TEST === "1" || process.env.LIVE === "1";
+
+const describeLive = LIVE && MINIMAX_KEY ? describe : describe.skip;
+
+describeLive("minimax live", () => {
+  it(
+    "returns assistant text",
+    async () => {
+      const model: Model<"openai-completions"> = {
+        id: MINIMAX_MODEL,
+        name: `MiniMax ${MINIMAX_MODEL}`,
+        api: "openai-completions",
+        provider: "minimax",
+        baseUrl: MINIMAX_BASE_URL,
+        reasoning: false,
+        input: ["text"],
+        cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
+        contextWindow: 200000,
+        maxTokens: 8192,
+      };
+      const res = await completeSimple(
+        model,
+        {
+          messages: [
+            {
+              role: "user",
+              content: "Reply with the word ok.",
+              timestamp: Date.now(),
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+        { apiKey: MINIMAX_KEY, maxTokens: 64 },
+      );
+      const text = res.content
+        .filter((block) => block.type === "text")
+        .map((block) => block.text.trim())
+        .join(" ");
+      expect(text.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    },
+    20000,
+  );
+});