MistralAI-User

AI assistant fetcher

The fetcher Mistral's Le Chat assistant uses to load pages when answering user questions with web citations.

OperatorMistral AI
TypeAI assistant fetcher
Respects robots.txtYes (documented)
DocumentationOfficial operator documentation

MistralAI-User user-agent string

This is how MistralAI-User identifies itself in your server logs:

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

How to block MistralAI-User in robots.txt

Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:

Block MistralAI-User

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

Explicitly allow MistralAI-User

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

What blocking changes: Le Chat can no longer read or cite your pages in its answers.

Want to decide for all AI bots at once? Use the AI robots.txt generator.

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