Mistral AI
AI assistants
MistralAI-User
Visits a page to answer a person's question in Mistral's assistant and cite it.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- MistralAI-User
- Operator
- Mistral AI
- Verification
- Published IP list
- Source
- Mistral AI documentation
What an AI assistant fetcher does
An assistant fetcher visits only when someone asks an AI assistant a question that needs your page. Each visit stands for a real person, often one who is about to click through, so blocking it usually costs you readers.
Block or allow MistralAI-User in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /Allow MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /More from Mistral AI
Questions, answered.
MistralAI-User is an AI assistant fetcher run by Mistral AI. Visits a page to answer a person's question in Mistral's assistant and cite it.
Yes. Mistral AI says MistralAI-User follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: MistralAI-User" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Check the request's IP address against the list Mistral AI publishes. A user agent alone proves nothing, since any script can copy it.
Indirectly. MistralAI-User opens your page because a person asked about it, and the answer can link back to you.
Usually not. Each visit stands for a person asking about your page, so blocking MistralAI-User turns readers away.
In its own documentation at https://docs.mistral.ai/robots. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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