Mistral AI agent
How to use
Vibe by Mistral AI.
Multilingual assistance, structured research, project-based knowledge work, custom agents, connected tools, and coding tasks.
Vibe by Mistral AI is a unified AI agent for productivity, coding, and chat. Multilingual assistance, structured research, project-based knowledge work, custom agents, connected tools, and coding tasks. This guide covers the whole path in one place: official access, a first session that produces something reviewable, the checks that make output trustworthy, and the permissions worth limiting before you connect real work.
AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.
Access & setup
Find, install, and sign in to Vibe by Mistral AI
Get into the official Vibe by Mistral AI experience with the right account and a setup you understand.
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Start at https://chat.mistral.ai/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.
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Availability: Web and mobile access for Vibe Work and Chat, with Vibe Code available through developer-focused interfaces and tools.
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A Mistral account and supported browser or mobile device. Modes, Projects, Libraries, connectors, agents, and governance vary by plan.
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Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.
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Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.
- Use official download pages.
- Review permissions during setup.
- Keep installers and applications updated.
First session
Your first useful Vibe by Mistral AI session
Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.
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Open Vibe and choose Work, Code, or Chat according to the task and required tools.
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Create a Project for ongoing work and attach only authorized, relevant source material.
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State the deliverable, evidence standard, permissions, and actions that require human approval.
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Review citations, tool calls, code, and exported files before using the result.
- State the outcome before the background.
- Provide the real source material.
- Review the result before expanding the task.
Quality control
Check the quality of Vibe by Mistral AI output
Turn generated code into a change you would put your name on in review.
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Restate the intended behaviour and the acceptance criteria before reading a single generated line.
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Read the diff rather than the chat summary; the summary describes intent, the diff describes what actually changed.
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Run the test suite, then write a test that would fail if the change were wrong, and confirm it passes for the right reason.
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Check the edges the model tends to skip: error paths, null and empty cases, concurrency, and migration or rollback behaviour.
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Trace every new dependency, network call, and file write, and confirm each one is genuinely required.
- Review the diff, never the description of the diff.
- A passing test suite proves the tests pass, not that the change is correct.
- Keep changes small enough that a human can actually review them.
Privacy & permissions
Use Vibe by Mistral AI safely
Give the tool enough repository access to help, and no more than that.
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Decide what the tool may read and what it may write before connecting a repository.
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Scope tokens and integrations to the narrowest repository, branch, and permission set that still works.
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Keep secrets out of the context window: use environment variables and secret stores, never inline credentials.
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Require review before generated code touches authentication, payments, permissions, migrations, or deletion paths.
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Audit what the integration retained after the session, and revoke access that is no longer needed.
- Vibe modes and connectors can access different data and tools. Apply least privilege, understand workspace governance and retention, and verify source-backed claims and external actions.
- Follow your organisation's approved-use policy.
- Never treat fluent output as authorization to act.
Core workflows
Step-by-step ways to use Vibe by Mistral AI for the work it does best.
Each workflow below has its own outcome, steps and review checkpoints.
Use Mistral's research workflow to plan, search, synthesize, and deliver a source-backed answer.
↓ 02 WorkflowConfigure a focused Mistral agent with trusted knowledgeCreate an agent that uses an approved Library or connector without receiving unnecessary access.
↓Workflow 01
Build a verified research brief with Vibe Work
Use Mistral's research workflow to plan, search, synthesize, and deliver a source-backed answer.
Outcome: Produce a decision-ready brief whose evidence, uncertainty, and reasoning can be audited.
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State the decision, audience, scope, cutoff date, geography, and evidence threshold.
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Use a dedicated Project and attach only relevant authorized files or Library material.
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Ask Vibe Work to clarify assumptions, plan the research, and prioritize primary and recent sources.
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Require separate sections for findings, conflicting evidence, inference, risk, and unanswered questions.
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Open every consequential citation and correct weak claims before exporting or circulating the brief.
What good use looks like
- Keep one research question per brief.
- Verify citations at the source.
- Record the research cutoff date.
Workflow 02
Configure a focused Mistral agent with trusted knowledge
Create an agent that uses an approved Library or connector without receiving unnecessary access.
Outcome: Deploy a narrow internal assistant whose instructions, knowledge boundary, and permissions are understandable.
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Define the user, job, allowed sources, output format, refusal behavior, and human escalation path.
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Prepare a small authoritative Library with owners, dates, and removal rules, or choose one required connector.
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Grant the minimum knowledge and tool access and write concise instructions that cite sources in answers.
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Test factual, ambiguous, stale, permission-sensitive, and out-of-scope requests with representative users.
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Publish to a limited audience, monitor failures and connector behavior, and review access whenever sources change.
What good use looks like
- One authoritative knowledge boundary.
- Apply least privilege.
- Keep a human owner and review schedule.
Official references
Check the current product documentation.
Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this guide.