MiniMax Agent’s Pocket lets you control your computer from your phone
MiniMax Agent introduced Pocket, a feature that lets you control your desktop AI agent from your phone.
MiniMax Agent is a desktop AI agent that runs locally on your machine and handles tasks like file management, web browsing, and form creation. Pocket is a new mobile layer on top of it, letting you send instructions from your phone and have the desktop agent carry them out.
From your phone, you can send a natural-language instruction to rename and sort local files, build a survey, or browse the web. The desktop agent handles it without you touching your computer. Results stream back to the phone in real time.
How it works: The desktop client runs persistently on Mac or Windows. Phone commands route through MiniMax’s cloud to the local machine, where the agent executes them.
Among the things it can handle:
- File operations: Sort, rename, and organize local files from a phone prompt
- Form creation: Build surveys and forms remotely
- Web browsing: Navigate the web from a phone command
- Attachments: Handle file transfers across devices
Controlling your computer through a phone or messaging app is becoming standard across AI agents. Anthropic’s Dispatch does the same thing through the Claude mobile app. OpenClaw and Hermes take it further, letting you send commands through Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord. MiniMax is now offering its own version, built into a native product.
MiniMax’s models are well-regarded in the agentic AI community partly because of cost. Developers running MiniMax through tools like OpenRouter get capable models at significantly lower prices than Anthropic or OpenAI. That makes MiniMax Agent a credible product launch rather than a speculative one.
What’s still unclear:
- Protocol details: The exact architecture for device syncing isn’t documented yet
- Linux support: Not available, with multiple users already asking for it
- Privacy: Commands route through MiniMax servers even though the agent runs locally
- Enterprise: No indication yet of multi-user or shared workspace support
MiniMax currently reaches many of its users through third-party tools rather than its own products. Introducing a full agent environment changes that. Users who were running MiniMax models through OpenRouter now have a native destination to go to instead.
MiniMax recently introduced its own API plan, so you can use this agent for a relatively low price.
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