{"slug": "mimo-code", "name": "MiMo Code", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 13, "warners": 4, "score": 0.669, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-06-11", "latest": "2026-07-07", "why": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode!", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "compare": 1, "warn": 4}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode!", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "xiaomi.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["MiMo Code", "Mimo Code", "Mimocode", "MiMo code", "MiMo-Code"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 780075056, "item_id": 48754691, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754691", "by": "versteegen", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode!", "excerpt": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode! It definitely is NOT a quick find-replace job, it's genuinely someone's research project to create a better agent harness building on top of free software, and that's awesome. See https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness with orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"}, {"id": 777840640, "item_id": 48615040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615040", "by": "yogorenapan", "date": "2026-06-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mimo Code has grown on me.", "excerpt": "Mimo Code has grown on me. Before that, a very janky Pi. I've realized that at one point I was spending too much time getting things exactly as I want them versus actually using the damn thing", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "Pi", "story": "Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?"}, {"id": 777530016, "item_id": 48595626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595626", "by": "throwa356262", "date": "2026-06-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mimocode from Xiaomi is a fork of opencode with some improvements.", "excerpt": "Mimocode from Xiaomi is a fork of opencode with some improvements. There is also reasonix, which specializes in good caching tlto keep costs low; https://reasonix.io/ I agree opencode can be a bit buggy, but codex and claude code are not much better either.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 775888512, "item_id": 48493032, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493032", "by": "lambda", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's still in Chinese until you toggle it with the menu", "excerpt": "You're right, there are probably lots of sites misconfigured to not respect language headers, but we don't notice because English is the default. However, the right solution is still to use the language header. I send that to them, they should use it to give me the right one by default. One of the funny things is that this whole site is in an iframe; which breaks both Google Translate, and the Firefox translate featu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775881664, "item_id": 48492604, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492604", "by": "emulio", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous.", "excerpt": "The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous. curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash This is usually a PoC (Proof of concept) way to install something on a temporary container or temporary VM, but not for production use during daily desktop operation. I was hoping their documentation would provide better installation instructions. But strangely, only for Windows do they recommend \"npm ins", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775879488, "item_id": 48492468, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492468", "by": "est", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I think there's simply too much changed.", "excerpt": "There's a blog link https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon I think there's simply too much changed.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["coding agent", "coding agent harness", "agent harness with orchestration", "autoresearch loops", "ai coding cli", "ai coding agent"], "compared": [{"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "pi", "name": "Pi", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490826", "title": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751752", "title": "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820182", "title": "How did we make DeepSeek outperform Opus", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612758", "title": "Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209", "title": "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100", "title": "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 4, "warn": 4, "recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 781179072, "item_id": 48823692, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823692", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Xiaomi forked OpenCode and created their own agent hardness, to reduce friction between model and harness", "excerpt": "> he trigger was watching deepseek-flash fail on the simplest /review run, every shellCommand and readFile call bouncing back with a raw zod issues blob, the model unable to recover because the error wasn't in a form it could read. by the end deepseek v4 pro was beating opus 4.7 6/10 times on our internal evals. I think this is why Xiaomi forked OpenCode and created their own agent hardness, to reduce friction betwee", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "How did we make DeepSeek outperform Opus"}, {"id": 780075056, "item_id": 48754691, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754691", "by": "versteegen", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode!", "excerpt": "MiMo Code adds a lot of cool orchestration features to OpenCode! It definitely is NOT a quick find-replace job, it's genuinely someone's research project to create a better agent harness building on top of free software, and that's awesome. See https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness with orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"}, {"id": 780034048, "item_id": 48752128, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752128", "by": "seizethecheese", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Compare to Mimo Code https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (which is a CLI, while this is a desktop app).", "excerpt": "I'm somewhat surprised that this is not open source (from what I can tell). Compare to Mimo Code https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (which is a CLI, while this is a desktop app).", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM"}, {"id": 777840640, "item_id": 48615040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615040", "by": "yogorenapan", "date": "2026-06-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mimo Code has grown on me.", "excerpt": "Mimo Code has grown on me. Before that, a very janky Pi. I've realized that at one point I was spending too much time getting things exactly as I want them versus actually using the damn thing", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "Pi", "story": "Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?"}, {"id": 777530016, "item_id": 48595626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595626", "by": "throwa356262", "date": "2026-06-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mimocode from Xiaomi is a fork of opencode with some improvements.", "excerpt": "Mimocode from Xiaomi is a fork of opencode with some improvements. There is also reasonix, which specializes in good caching tlto keep costs low; https://reasonix.io/ I agree opencode can be a bit buggy, but codex and claude code are not much better either.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"}, {"id": 776826865, "item_id": 48551679, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551679", "by": "big-chungus4", "date": "2026-06-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I often run autoresearch loops using free models, right now it's MiMo code.", "excerpt": "I can run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 20 TPS on my laptop with RTX 5070 Ti, with partial offloading to RAM. But the most I do is mess with it when I'm bored. I do coding by hand, but I often run autoresearch loops using free models, right now it's MiMo code. Autoresearch often requires my GPU, so it wouldn't be feasible to do when all of my GPU is used up by a local model. For mundane tasks like extracting and formatting spec", "context": "", "use_case": "autoresearch loops", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"}, {"id": 775898352, "item_id": 48493647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493647", "by": "rajangdavis", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the link provided has an iframe pointing to https://mimo.xiaomi.com/coder", "excerpt": "This is really strange, but the link provided has an iframe pointing to https://mimo.xiaomi.com/coder When you look at the source, you can set it to English from the params https://mimo.xiaomi.com/coder?lang=en but there's a small bug, the hero subtitle isn't translated but everything else is. Wondering why this is in an iframe.... so strange", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775888512, "item_id": 48493032, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493032", "by": "lambda", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's still in Chinese until you toggle it with the menu", "excerpt": "You're right, there are probably lots of sites misconfigured to not respect language headers, but we don't notice because English is the default. However, the right solution is still to use the language header. I send that to them, they should use it to give me the right one by default. One of the funny things is that this whole site is in an iframe; which breaks both Google Translate, and the Firefox translate featu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775884272, "item_id": 48492767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492767", "by": "plus-one", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Codex use this (for update). > sh -c 'curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | CODEX_NON_INTERACTIVE=1 sh' This is just sh, not bash, but I doubt it would be any better.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775881664, "item_id": 48492604, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492604", "by": "emulio", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous.", "excerpt": "The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous. curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash This is usually a PoC (Proof of concept) way to install something on a temporary container or temporary VM, but not for production use during daily desktop operation. I was hoping their documentation would provide better installation instructions. But strangely, only for Windows do they recommend \"npm ins", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775879488, "item_id": 48492468, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492468", "by": "est", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I think there's simply too much changed.", "excerpt": "There's a blog link https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon I think there's simply too much changed.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775858768, "item_id": 48491173, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491173", "by": "mkl", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Much more information in the blog post this links to: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}, {"id": 775856448, "item_id": 48491028, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491028", "by": "ComputerGuru", "date": "2026-06-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "MiMo Code is Xiaomi\u2019s AI agentic coding harness.", "excerpt": "Since the link is in Chinese: MiMo Code is Xiaomi\u2019s AI agentic coding harness. \u201c MiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant. It can read and write code, run commands, manage Git, and use a persistent memory system to keep a deep understanding of your project across sessions while continuously improving itself.\u201d GitHub link (English): https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code @dang might be better to link to the ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source"}]}