IDE integration for Mistral Le Chat

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If your IDE supports plugins like continue.dev, you can use codestral endpoint or api.mistral.ai one with Codestral 😉

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Could you elaborate? I cant find any API keys.

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https://console.mistral.ai/home

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But isn't this La Platforme?

I also need to request Codestral access separately and I am not sure if the Codestral access is limited.

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Yes, it is. That's the way of integrating Mistral technologies in the products, like IDEs

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Try it, it's quite fast 🙂

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I tried, but it doesnt show up in VSCode using continue.dev 😭

Added the Codestral API key

It only shows as an Autocomplete model, though Codestral seems to have compatibility with chat, no?

[quiet trail]

Yes, it does, you can use it in chat as well. Needs some adjustments in config.json

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Here?

It already shows up as a chat, edit and apply AI.

[quiet trail]

Try changing provider from Mistral to codestral

And use codestral API key

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That is what I did

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Technically it should work

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Wait a second

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But ofc continue.dev changed config format

-.-

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Cant edit YAML :(

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You need to do it manually, by locating it on your system

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Dang, what a hassle 💀

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Previously it was easier

Before continue.dev changed config format

Okay

So

On my end, I have provider "Mistral"

apiBase set to codestral.mistral.ai/v1

Model: codestral-latest

And Codestral apiKey

For both tabAutocomplete and model in general

So you need to use extra key related to API base

And set it to Codestral endpoint

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version: 1.0.0
schema: v1

models:
  - name: Codestral
    provider: mistral
    apiBase: codestral.nistral.ai/v1
    model: codestral-latest
    apiKey: ${{ inputs.MISTRAL_API_KEY }}
    roles:
      - autocomplete
      - chat
      - edit
      - apply```

This is what I tried improvising with, I got Codestral visible as a local model

But I still get 401 Invalid URL

[quiet trail]

Mistral, not nistral xd

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:)

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Didnt make a difference :(

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Did you provided API for codestral or for la platforme?

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Codestral

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Hm, weird. Try hard-coding API in config, instead of reading from inputs

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Tried that :(

Ill see if Le Chat can help

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What's worse is that I cannot force continue.dev to make yaml config for me

It makes config.json instead xD

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💀

Are you sure your plugin isnt out of date?

I just manually made the yaml file and it uses that instead of config.json apparently

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1.0.2, stable

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Should be up-to-date yeah

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Try with good old config.json

Maybe continue.dev needs issue ticket on GH

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No difference, trying to check the error logs.

This is what I get basically

Okay I solved it, you got to have https:// at the beginning of the URL

https://tenor.com/view/borat-borat-very-nice-verynice-thumbs-up-gif-25080066

Thank you KhazAkar for your help! 😄

It is not the Le Chat I wanted necessarily, but Codestral shall do.

Anyways, it would be nice to have Le Chat as well, so I could ask some knowledge questions from it while coding.

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Well, le chat is a product, not a service to be useable outside its own interface 🙂

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Couldn't we argue that so is Claude and ChatGPT?

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yes, they are. And they both offer API access, just like Mistral does

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Yes sir, so why not Le Chat?

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And it is, in form of La Platforme

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Yes but thats per-use, not fun :(

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just like OpenAI does with API to their own models, and Anthropic

Everyone here have same scheme 🙂

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You have to pay for Claude and ChatGPT per token if you want to use their models in IDE integration?

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Yup

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Damn, I didnt know that. Thanks for letting me know! 😄

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For Anthropic and OpenAI, respectively 🙂

and their models

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👍

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claude and chatgpt are just interfaces with extra features on top, ready to use product

same for le chat