Bot directory · User-triggered fetchers
User-triggered fetchers · Mistral
MistralAI-User
Fetches a page when a user of Le Chat asks about it. Mistral says it is not used for training.
- Operator
- Mistral
- Purpose
- Live user request. Fetchers that load a page because a person asked an assistant about it. Blocking one means the assistant can’t open your pages on request.
- robots.txt token
MistralAI-User- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)- Documentation
- docs.mistral.ai/robots/
Block MistralAI-User
Add a group naming it to /robots.txt. Compliant crawlers stop before requesting any page. A firewall rule on the user agent is the only way to enforce it against crawlers that ignore robots.txt.
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
Allow MistralAI-User when everything else is blocked
A group naming the bot wins over User-agent: *, so an explicit allow lets it in while your catch-all rules stay in place.
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Does MistralAI-User reach your site?
The checker applies your robots.txt the way MistralAI-User does, then requests your page with the user agent above, alongside 29 other bots.
Other user-triggered fetchers: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalFetcher.
Build a complete file with the robots.txt generator.