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MistralAI-User

Mistral's user-triggered fetcher - retrieves pages in real time when a Le Chat user's question requires them.

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OperatorMistral AI
PowersLe Chat live page fetches
PurposeUser-triggered fetch
User-agent tokenMistralAI-User
Respects robots.txtYes

MistralAI-User fires when a user of Le Chat, Mistral's assistant, asks a question that requires fetching a live web page - it is a user-triggered fetcher, not a bulk training crawler.

Mistral documents the MistralAI-User token and states that it respects robots.txt directives.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)

Allow MistralAI-User

Users asking Le Chat about your page get answers grounded in your actual content, with citations.

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

Block MistralAI-User

You want to prevent programmatic access from Mistral's assistant.

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

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