AI Assistant
✓ GEO Recommendation: Keep Open
MistralAI-User
Operated by Mistral AI · User-triggered retrieval
MistralAI-User is Mistral's user-triggered fetcher, used by Mistral Vibe to access a web page when a person's request requires current information. It is not an automated crawler and is not used to train Mistral's generative AI models.
Owner
Mistral AI
Trigger
User action
Used for AI Training
No
robots.txt control
Yes
Impact if blocked
Prevents MistralAI-User from accessing blocked content for user-requested actions.
How to identify
User-Agent: MistralAI-User
What it does
MistralAI-User fetches a specific web page when a person asks Mistral Vibe a question that requires looking at a live source, similar in spirit to ChatGPT-User and Claude-User.
It only visits pages relevant to that one request — it does not crawl a site broadly or build an index, and it is separate from MistralAI-Index, Mistral's automated indexing crawler.
Why we recommend keeping it open
- Responds to a specific person's question, not a bulk crawl
- Not used to train Mistral's generative AI models
- Follows robots.txt directives, so access stays under your control
Identification & robots.txt
User-Agent identifier
MistralAI-User
Verification
Additional verification information is available in Mistral's official documentation.
Robots.txt guidance
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /