MistralAI-User: user agent, purpose, and whether to allow it
MistralAI-User fetches pages for Le Chat when a person asks a question.
Specification
| Operator | Mistral AI |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Live fetchFetches a page in real time because a person asked. Traffic here tracks human interest, not a crawl schedule. |
| Agent kind | FetcherFetches on a person's request. Appears in your logs. Request volume follows human activity. |
| User agent | Not documented by Mistral AI. Kymo matches this agent on the token MistralAI-User, observed in real logs rather than published in operator documentation. |
| robots.txt token | MistralAI-User |
| robots.txt compliance | No operator statement located |
| Verification | No published method, user agent is the only signal |
| Sends referral traffic | Yes |
| Attaches a citation | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Legacy Kymo category | ai_answer |
| Source | Third-party source, not yet confirmed against operator docsMistral AI publishes no crawler documentation that Kymo could locate. Everything on this page comes from observed traffic, not from a vendor page. |
| Verified on |
What blocking it costs you
Verify against Mistral documentation before publishing this section.
robots.txt directives
Both blocks below address MistralAI-User only. Rules for one token never apply to another, even from the same operator.
Allow MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User Allow: /
Block MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: /
Questions
What is the MistralAI-User user agent?
Mistral AI documents the robots.txt token MistralAI-User but does not publish a full user-agent string for it. Kymo records this agent from observation rather than from documentation.
Does MistralAI-User respect robots.txt?
No operator statement located
What does blocking MistralAI-User cost me?
Verify against Mistral documentation before publishing this section.
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See this bot in your own logs
Kymo classifies every crawler hit server-side using this registry, so MistralAI-User shows up under Mistral AI with its purpose attached. Read how crawler detection works, or run a free free AI visibility check to see what each crawler currently gets back from your server. No account needed for the check.