Recommendation: Use for official fastboot, SP Flash Tool for MTK EDL (needs auth bypass but safer than XAT), or pay for a legitimate remote EDL service. Avoid XAT hot completely unless you’re in a controlled, air-gapped VM with no personal data – and even then, it likely won’t work.
The XAT ecosystem handles complex software operations that standard flashing suites cannot execute autonomously. Technical Purpose Dependency xiaomi auth tool xat hot
Here is the simplified flow: