mistral-vscode

Allows you to chat using the Mistral AI API directly within VS Code.

Features

• A nice-looking (debatable) chat view
• Select the Mistral model to use on-the-fly, even mid-convo
• Mistral platform responses are streamed to the chat window
• Code blocks highlighting in responses
• Chat history, with the ability to reload a previous chat and resume the conversation
• 2 adaptive color schemes (ugly light/terrible dark)

Requirements

You'll need a Mistral API key and to set it up in the extension settings.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• mistral-vscode.apiKey: Your Mistral API key (not synced)
• mistral-vscode.defaultModel: The default Mistral model to use : mistral-tiny, mistral-small or mistral-medium as of February 2024 (default: mistral-tiny)
• mistral-vscode.mustSaveChats: Should VSCode save chat history (default: false)
• mistral-vscode.saveChatsLocation: If chat history is enabled, the folder in which chats are saved (default: ~/.mistral-vscode/chats/)
• mistral-vscode.getChatsTitlesByMistral: If chat history is enabled, should the extension ask mistral-tiny to name chat files with an explicit description (default: false). Enabling this will cause additional Mistral API requests and thus increase billing (though not by much)

Known Issues

Formatting issues when lots of backticks are found in the Mistral responses (think: asking questions about regex including backticks).

Then again, even ChatGPT struggles with these cases.

Release Notes

v0.0.2

• Better formatting of code terms (not code blocks) during response streaming
• Added Start new chat item in context menu
• Tweaked system prompt for getting chat titles from Mistral

v0.0.1

• Initial release