Integrations
Minerva Agent connects to external systems for AI inference, tool servers, IDE workflows, programmatic access, and more. These integrations extend what Minerva can do and where it can run.
AI Providers & Routing
Minerva supports multiple AI inference providers out of the box. Use minerva model to configure interactively, or set them in config.yaml.
- AI Providers — OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Chutes (Bittensor SN64), and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Minerva auto-detects capabilities like vision, streaming, and tool use per provider.
- Provider Routing — Fine-grained control over which underlying providers handle your OpenRouter requests. Optimize for cost, speed, or quality with sorting, whitelists, blacklists, and explicit priority ordering.
- Fallback Providers — Automatic failover to backup LLM providers when your primary model encounters errors. Includes primary model fallback and independent auxiliary task fallback for side jobs such as vision and compression.
Tool Servers (MCP)
- MCP Servers — Connect Minerva to external tool servers via Model Context Protocol. Access tools from GitHub, databases, file systems, browser stacks, internal APIs, and more without writing native Minerva tools. Supports both stdio and SSE transports, per-server tool filtering, and capability-aware resource/prompt registration.
Web Search Backends
The web_search and web_extract tools support ten backend providers, configured via config.yaml or minerva tools:
| Backend | Env Var | Search | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl | FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (optional — keyless free tier) | ✔ | ✔ |
| SearXNG | SEARXNG_URL | ✔ | — |
| Brave (free tier) | BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY | ✔ | — |
| DuckDuckGo (ddgs) | (none) | ✔ | — |
| Tavily | TAVILY_API_KEY (optional — keyless when selected) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Perplexity | PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | ✔ | ✔ |
| Keenable | KEENABLE_API_KEY (optional — keyless free tier) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Exa | EXA_API_KEY (optional — keyless free tier) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Parallel | PARALLEL_API_KEY (optional — keyless free tier) | ✔ | ✔ |
| xAI | XAI_API_KEY | ✔ | — |
Quick setup example:
web:
backend: firecrawl # firecrawl | searxng | brave-free | ddgs | tavily | perplexity | keenable | exa | parallel | xai
If web.backend is not set, the backend is auto-detected from whichever API key is available. With no backend selected and no credentials at all, requests rotate across the keyless free tiers of Exa, Parallel, Firecrawl, and Keenable (web.keyless_fallback: false turns this off). Self-hosted Firecrawl is also supported via FIRECRAWL_API_URL.
Browser Automation
Minerva includes full browser automation with multiple backend options for navigating websites, filling forms, and extracting information:
- Browser Use Cloud — Managed Chromium with stealth, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and reusable browser profiles
- Browserbase — Alternative cloud browser provider with managed browsers, anti-bot tooling, CAPTCHA solving, and residential proxies
- Local Chromium-family CDP — Connect to your running Chrome, Brave, Chromium, or Edge browser using
/browser connect - Local Chromium — Headless local browser via the
agent-browserCLI
See Browser Automation for setup and usage.
Voice & TTS Providers
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text across all messaging platforms:
| Provider | Quality | Cost | API Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edge TTS (default) | Good | Free | None needed |
| ElevenLabs | Excellent | Paid | ELEVENLABS_API_KEY |
| OpenAI TTS | Good | Paid | VOICE_TOOLS_OPENAI_KEY |
| MiniMax TTS | Excellent | Paid | MINIMAX_API_KEY or MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY |
| Mistral (Voxtral TTS) | Excellent | Paid | MISTRAL_API_KEY |
| Google Gemini TTS | Excellent | Free tier | GEMINI_API_KEY |
| xAI TTS | Excellent | Paid | XAI_API_KEY |
| DeepInfra TTS | Good | Paid | DEEPINFRA_API_KEY |
| NeuTTS | Good | Free (local) | None needed |
| KittenTTS | Good | Free (local) | None needed |
| Piper | Good | Free (local) | None needed |
Speech-to-text supports eight providers: local faster-whisper (free, runs on-device), a local command wrapper, Groq, OpenAI Whisper API, Mistral, xAI, ElevenLabs Scribe, and DeepInfra. Voice message transcription works across Telegram, Discord, and other messaging platforms. See Voice & TTS and Voice Mode for details.
IDE & Editor Integration
- IDE Integration (ACP) — Use Minerva Agent inside ACP-compatible editors such as VS Code, Zed, and JetBrains. Minerva runs as an ACP server, rendering chat messages, tool activity, file diffs, and terminal commands inside your editor.
Programmatic Access
- API Server — Expose Minerva as an OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint. Any frontend that speaks the OpenAI format — Open WebUI, LobeChat, LibreChat, NextChat, ChatBox — can connect and use Minerva as a backend with its full toolset.
Memory & Personalization
- Built-in Memory — Persistent, curated memory via
MEMORY.mdandUSER.mdfiles. The agent maintains bounded stores of personal notes and user profile data that survive across sessions. - Memory Providers — Plug in external memory backends for deeper personalization. Eight providers are supported: Honcho (dialectic reasoning), OpenViking (tiered retrieval), Mem0 (cloud extraction), Hindsight (knowledge graphs), Holographic (local SQLite), RetainDB (hybrid search), ByteRover (CLI-based), and Supermemory.
Messaging Platforms
Minerva runs as a gateway bot on these messaging platforms, all configured through the same gateway subsystem:
See the Messaging Gateway overview for the platform comparison table and setup guide.
Quick connect links
The big platforms have a canonical "create your bot/app" URL, and some accept parameters that pre-open the right form. Skip the console-hunting and go straight there:
| Platform | Direct link | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Telegram | t.me/BotFather | Chat with BotFather — send /newbot to mint a bot token |
| Discord | discord.com/developers/applications?new_application=true | Developer Portal with the New Application dialog pre-opened |
| Slack | api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1 | The Create New App dialog — pick From an app manifest and paste the manifest minerva slack manifest --agent-view generates |
Each platform's setup page walks through what to do once you're there.
Collaboration Workspaces
- Buzz — Block's Nostr-based human+agent workspace. Two integration paths: Buzz Desktop spawns Minerva as a managed ACP runtime, or the
buzz-acprelay bridge hosts a Minerva identity server-side.
Plugins
- Plugin System — Extend Minerva with custom tools, lifecycle hooks, and CLI commands without modifying core code. Plugins are discovered from
~/.minerva/plugins/, project-local.minerva/plugins/, and pip-installed entry points. - Build a Plugin — Step-by-step guide for creating Minerva plugins with tools, hooks, and CLI commands.