On demand · Mistral AI
MistralAI-User
Fetches a page when a Le Chat user asks about it. Mistral states these fetches are not used for training and that the agent respects robots.txt.
- Operator
- Mistral AI
- Purpose
- User-triggered fetchers
- Feeds
- Le Chat
- robots.txt token
MistralAI-User- Honours robots.txt
- Honours robots.txt
- Documentation
- docs.mistral.ai
What it looks like in server logs
A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the MistralAI-User token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)How to block MistralAI-User
Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
To block every user-triggered fetcher at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.
How to allow MistralAI-User while blocking others
A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and MistralAI-User keeps full access.
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
How to verify a genuine hit
The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.
Mistral publishes the IP ranges its fetcher uses.
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