{"slug": "mistral-vibe", "name": "Mistral Vibe", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 9, "commenters": 28, "warners": 5, "score": 5.289, "rising": -2.95, "first": "2025-12-09", "latest": "2026-10-12", "why": "They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 9, "neutral": 13, "compare": 3, "warn": 6}, "spark": [0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "official_url": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mistral Vibe", "Mistral Vibe CLI", "mistral-vibe"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 779852560, "item_id": 48740785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740785", "by": "adev_", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.", "excerpt": "> Mistral because it performs the best, by whatever secular metric of your choosing? I am. I use them primarily through their vibe CLI. Reason is simple: They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well. For small programming tasks, quick prototyping, refactoring or anything verbose and not requiring a context too large: I first go to Mistral and then eventually ", "context": "C++ and Python programmer", "use_case": "small programming tasks, prototyping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leanstral 1.5"}, {"id": 773351888, "item_id": 48334493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334493", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option", "excerpt": "The other comment already mentioned that you get their subscription: https://mistral.ai/pricing/ they do say that you can try out their coding agent for free, but personally the Pro tier is pretty affordable too to try out for a month. Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option: https://mistral.ai/products/vibe/code/ if you don't have uv yet, you might have to install it too: ", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris"}, {"id": 766778673, "item_id": 47923667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923667", "by": "qznc", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.", "excerpt": "I use Le Chat free tier. Not as good as ChatGPT free tier but sufficient for 90% of my uses. I tried Mistral Vibe (Claude Code equivalent) free tier for a week. I hit web_search limits but not limits for devstral-2. For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}, {"id": 766448480, "item_id": 47903030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903030", "by": "phillc73", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mistral\u2019s Vibe CLI[1] is open source.", "excerpt": "These are already available. Mistral\u2019s Vibe CLI[1] is open source. Tools like goose[2]are API agnostic. [1] https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe [2] https://goose-docs.ai/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story"}, {"id": 744746768, "item_id": 46546673, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546673", "by": "oli5679", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.", "excerpt": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation. The use of async is interesting.", "context": "", "use_case": "Open-source coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797278416, "item_id": 49829901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829901", "by": "maxrb", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we", "excerpt": "Hi, one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we tested this. PoC repository: https://github.com/SecMateDev/mistral-vibe-attack-demo", "context": "security researcher", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Vibe Shell Permission Bypass Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution"}, {"id": 792611040, "item_id": 49538190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538190", "by": "teekert", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "And I have to ask every user in my org to go and turn it off.", "excerpt": "The toggles I see at https://admin.mistral.ai/vibe/privacy: Allow public sharing of chats content Allow user feedback on model responses Chat Retention Policy At https://admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/privacy I see Allow the use of your API calls to train Mistral\u2019s AI models. Enable Labs models So indeed, no \"Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral\u2019s AI models\". I only see that setting here: https:", "context": "admin of an org with Mistral users", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 776961043, "item_id": 48560065, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560065", "by": "saghm", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers", "excerpt": "I'm probably somewhat adjacent to you. I would be happy to pay, but I just don't want to pay any of the companies that are actually offering things right now. I had the $20/month sub for Claude for a couple months, until one day I kept inexplicably getting errors saying I hit the limit even though their site showed my usage at less than half for the session and 8% for the week, and it seemed silly to pay for somethin", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running local models is good now"}, {"id": 766459504, "item_id": 47903719, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903719", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I would avoid Mistral Vibe", "excerpt": "I've not tried actually migrating from Claude Code... but having played a bit with other clients, I would avoid Mistral Vibe. I want to love it, there's some things that are nice about Vibe (mostly just \"oui oui baguette\"), but the things I did not like about it were disastrously bad. I could barely get MCP servers configured, and it was in something of a broken state even when I did get it working. I have many words", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story"}]}], "who": [{"by": "phillc73", "context": "Mistral user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932202", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "adev_", "context": "C++ and Python programmer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740785", "date": "2026-06-30"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["coding", "ai coding", "coding agent cli", "ai coding harness", "ai coding agent", "small programming tasks, prototyping"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 8, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "maki", "name": "Maki", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "pi", "name": "Pi", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "le-chat", "name": "Le Chat", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437", "title": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI", "mentions": 8}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535284", "title": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738938", "title": "Leanstral 1.5", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340", "title": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919725", "title": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902339", "title": "What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"compare": 1, "neutral": 3, "recommend": 3}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 2}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801021442, "item_id": 50063840, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063840", "by": "schleck8", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "excerpt": "> It\u2019s a shame I cannot inspect the tool. It\u2019s a shame I cannot modify it as I see fit. https://github.com/openai/codex https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe https://github.com/earendil-works/pi https://claude.com/de/resources/articles/claude-code-mods", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"}, {"id": 798915233, "item_id": 49932202, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932202", "by": "phillc73", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The Vibe CLI harness has been improving for a while, but is still a little sluggish", "excerpt": "I've been with Mistral for a while now. Their hosted GLM-5.3 has been a game changer in Vibe CLI over the last couple of weeks. The Vibe CLI harness has been improving for a while, but is still a little sluggish and I feel lacks token minimisation strategies. I recently changed to Maki and have been reasonably satisfied so far. However, I also use the Mistral Vibe chat in my browser. I think they only switched to GLM", "context": "Mistral user", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows"}, {"id": 797278416, "item_id": 49829901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829901", "by": "maxrb", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we", "excerpt": "Hi, one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we tested this. PoC repository: https://github.com/SecMateDev/mistral-vibe-attack-demo", "context": "security researcher", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Vibe Shell Permission Bypass Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution"}, {"id": 792611040, "item_id": 49538190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538190", "by": "teekert", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "And I have to ask every user in my org to go and turn it off.", "excerpt": "The toggles I see at https://admin.mistral.ai/vibe/privacy: Allow public sharing of chats content Allow user feedback on model responses Chat Retention Policy At https://admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/privacy I see Allow the use of your API calls to train Mistral\u2019s AI models. Enable Labs models So indeed, no \"Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral\u2019s AI models\". I only see that setting here: https:", "context": "admin of an org with Mistral users", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 792603888, "item_id": 49537743, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537743", "by": "throwaway89201", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral\u2019s AI models", "excerpt": "> I don't have that toggle (but could indeed have sworn I saw it earlier). You don't see \"Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral\u2019s AI models\" at https://admin.mistral.ai/vibe/privacy ? And \"Allow the use of your API calls to train Mistral\u2019s AI models\" at https://admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/privacy ?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 792587297, "item_id": 49536706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536706", "by": "jnurmine", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I have a hard time noticing differences with Claude (in Kiro) and Mistral Vibe", "excerpt": "To be honest, I have a hard time noticing differences with Claude (in Kiro) and Mistral Vibe, at least with what I use them for. They simply feel like talking to the exact same thing.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 792583952, "item_id": 49536497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536497", "by": "throwaway89201", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API", "excerpt": "> and at the same time seemed to have lost the ability to centrally disable training on prompts for your entire organization There is a toggle on https://admin.mistral.ai that allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API for your entire organisation. And I'm not on the enterprise plan. I've disabled training the first time I created an account, and it has remained that way. You story is also very conf", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 779852560, "item_id": 48740785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740785", "by": "adev_", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.", "excerpt": "> Mistral because it performs the best, by whatever secular metric of your choosing? I am. I use them primarily through their vibe CLI. Reason is simple: They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well. For small programming tasks, quick prototyping, refactoring or anything verbose and not requiring a context too large: I first go to Mistral and then eventually ", "context": "C++ and Python programmer", "use_case": "small programming tasks, prototyping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leanstral 1.5"}, {"id": 779857444, "item_id": 48741090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741090", "by": "Confiks", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the one time I tried their `vibe` tool months ago it was a bit rough", "excerpt": "For writing and languange learning it's very decent, especially Mistral Large. The pricing is very good too. I really like the consistently low time to first token and good token per second. Claude, especially in the past, would be very inconsistent, often with outages. Mistral mostly just always works and is very fast. Technical questions are unfortunately hit or miss. I'm lately pretty much always using a system pr", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leanstral 1.5"}, {"id": 776961043, "item_id": 48560065, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560065", "by": "saghm", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers", "excerpt": "I'm probably somewhat adjacent to you. I would be happy to pay, but I just don't want to pay any of the companies that are actually offering things right now. I had the $20/month sub for Claude for a couple months, until one day I kept inexplicably getting errors saying I hit the limit even though their site showed my usage at less than half for the session and 8% for the week, and it seemed silly to pay for somethin", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running local models is good now"}, {"id": 773351888, "item_id": 48334493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334493", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option", "excerpt": "The other comment already mentioned that you get their subscription: https://mistral.ai/pricing/ they do say that you can try out their coding agent for free, but personally the Pro tier is pretty affordable too to try out for a month. Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option: https://mistral.ai/products/vibe/code/ if you don't have uv yet, you might have to install it too: ", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris"}, {"id": 773291489, "item_id": 48330718, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330718", "by": "sbinnee", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "eventually, I am certain they will catch up and Vibe becomes tolerable soon", "excerpt": "I believe that Mistral team is doing the best they can do. I like the directions they push; open models for various tasks, on-prem has a lot of potential. Sure, I use Claude code mostly for coding. But there are so many tasks other than just coding. Even for coding, eventually, I am certain they will catch up and Vibe becomes tolerable soon.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris"}, {"id": 771947297, "item_id": 48246706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246706", "by": "phillc73", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Mistral Vibe CLI and I\u2019ve written and implemented a couple of new skills", "excerpt": "I was a Mistral Le Chat Pro subscriber (the \u20ac20/month plan). Yesterday I hit my monthly limit. Switching to PAYG I burned through another \u20ac40 in one evening, working on the same project, with the same tasks. I upgraded my plan last night to Mistral Le Chat Teams. This now costs me \u20ac60 per month for two users. Limits have been reset, but I have no idea now if my per seat limit is higher than the Pro plan, or if the li", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun"}, {"id": 767217249, "item_id": 47951078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951078", "by": "Mashimo", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I also did some SVG tests, it's really bad. https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/897fbe7d-b1ae-4109-9b29-f3ccc4f8896d", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Medium 3.5"}, {"id": 766917264, "item_id": 47932329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932329", "by": "sylware", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Can I use Mistral Vibe without", "excerpt": "Can I use Mistral Vibe without a whatng cartel web engine? Namely, classic web (noscript/basic (x)html), or a dynamic web API with some public tokens? (using a set of CURL commands). If there is a requirement of account creation (often required to generate web API tokens), can I do that using the classic web (noscript/basic (x)html)? And if so, if the account creation does require an email address, do they support se", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}, {"id": 766778673, "item_id": 47923667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923667", "by": "qznc", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.", "excerpt": "I use Le Chat free tier. Not as good as ChatGPT free tier but sufficient for 90% of my uses. I tried Mistral Vibe (Claude Code equivalent) free tier for a week. I hit web_search limits but not limits for devstral-2. For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}, {"id": 766459504, "item_id": 47903719, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903719", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I would avoid Mistral Vibe", "excerpt": "I've not tried actually migrating from Claude Code... but having played a bit with other clients, I would avoid Mistral Vibe. I want to love it, there's some things that are nice about Vibe (mostly just \"oui oui baguette\"), but the things I did not like about it were disastrously bad. I could barely get MCP servers configured, and it was in something of a broken state even when I did get it working. I have many words", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story"}, {"id": 766448480, "item_id": 47903030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903030", "by": "phillc73", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mistral\u2019s Vibe CLI[1] is open source.", "excerpt": "These are already available. Mistral\u2019s Vibe CLI[1] is open source. Tools like goose[2]are API agnostic. [1] https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe [2] https://goose-docs.ai/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story"}, {"id": 759506164, "item_id": 47469135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469135", "by": "arthurjean", "date": "2026-03-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "well above Codex, Gemini CLI or Mistral Vibe in my experience", "excerpt": "I've used both. I stuck with Claude Code, the ergonomics are better and the internals are clearly optimized for Opus which I use daily, you can feel it. That said OpenCode is still a very good alternative, well above Codex, Gemini CLI or Mistral Vibe in my experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode \u2013 The open source AI coding agent"}, {"id": 758492049, "item_id": 47405753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405753", "by": "chucky_z", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "along with the vibe cli", "excerpt": "I use mistral-medium-3.1 for a lot of random daily tasks, along with the vibe cli. I'd state from my personal opinion that mistral is my preferred 'model vendor' by far at this point. They're extremely consistent between releases while each of them just feels better. I also have a strong personal preference to the output. I actively use gemini-3.1-pro-preview, claude-4.6-opus-high, and gpt-5.3-codex as well. I prefer", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Releases Leanstral"}, {"id": 755319952, "item_id": 47207497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207497", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-03-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal.", "excerpt": "Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal. I feel sorry for whatever they did to that model, it didn't deserve it. The thing I most noticed was asking it for help with configuring local MCP servers in Mistral Vibe - something it supports, it literally shows how many MCP servers are connected on the startup screen - it then begins scanning my local machine f", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"}, {"id": 754159857, "item_id": 47134991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134991", "by": "abhikul0", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "compare", "quote": "All the other tools inject upto around 7-10k tokens on the initial prompt", "excerpt": "Pi works great for local models in my short testing. Wanted to try out Skills and how small models work with these agentic tools for small tasks, mainly [browser-use](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use). Tried Mistral Vibe, Codex, Opencode, Claude with gpt-oss:20b, ministral 3b,8b, Nemotron3 nano 30b and GLM 4.6V; finally settling on gpt for its impressive pass rates. All the other tools inject upto around 7-", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Engine Behind the Hype"}, {"id": 747462226, "item_id": 46716389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716389", "by": "rcarmo", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "others Mistral Vibe or Toad", "excerpt": "Well, I built https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox - which I run in a VM, with a dedicated container per project. Right now most of them are running Copilot CLI, others Mistral Vibe or Toad, and I have just built a small web front end based on https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm that lets me see a dashboard of all running tmux sessions inside the containers, click through, and prompt the agents every hour or so. ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How are you automating your coding work?"}, {"id": 744746768, "item_id": 46546673, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546673", "by": "oli5679", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.", "excerpt": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation. The use of async is interesting.", "context": "", "use_case": "Open-source coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code"}, {"id": 744698786, "item_id": 46543674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543674", "by": "james2doyle", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "excerpt": "Maybe try out some of the alternative CLI options? Like https://opencode.ai? I also like https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush and https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI"}, {"id": 739386272, "item_id": 46211642, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211642", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I'd be shocked if Vibe could out-perform Claude Code", "excerpt": "I've not spent enough time with Mistral Vibe yet for a credible comparison, but given what I know about the underlying models (likely-1T-plus Opus 4.5 compared to the 123B Devstral 2) I'd be shocked if Vibe could out-perform Claude Code for the kinds of things I'm using it for. Here's n example of the kinds of things I do with Claude Code now: https://gistpreview.github.io/?b64d5ee40439877eee7c224539452e27 - that one", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739367856, "item_id": 46210491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210491", "by": "stonemetal12", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": ">\"Open Source\" is nebulous No it isn't it is well defined. The only people who find it \"nebulous\" are people who want the benefits without upholding the obligations. https://opensource.org/definition-annotated", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739364848, "item_id": 46210303, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210303", "by": "rubin55", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is great! I just made an AUR package for it", "excerpt": "This is great! I just made an AUR package for it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mistral-vibe", "context": "", "use_case": "CLI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739361936, "item_id": 46210121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210121", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read", "excerpt": "The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read: core/prompts/cli.md https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/blob/v1.0.4/vibe/core/prompts/cli.md core/prompts/compact.md https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/blob/v1.0.4/vibe/core/prompts/compact.md .../prompts/bash.md https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/blob/v1.0.4/vibe/core/too", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739343840, "item_id": 46208990, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208990", "by": "weitendorf", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Going to start hacking on this ASAP", "excerpt": "Open sourcing the TUI is pretty big news actually. Unless I missed something, I had to dig a bit to find it, but I think this is it: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe Going to start hacking on this ASAP", "context": "", "use_case": "Coding agent CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739335616, "item_id": 46208476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208476", "by": "tomashubelbauer", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Check this out: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe", "excerpt": "Check this out: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe?tab=readme-ov-file#mcp-server-configuration", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739317472, "item_id": 46207342, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207342", "by": "da_grift_shift", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Can Vibe CLI help me vibe code PRs", "excerpt": "Can Vibe CLI help me vibe code PRs for when I vibe on the https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug repo?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739307424, "item_id": 46206714, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206714", "by": "williamstein", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "compare", "quote": "unlike similar agents from Anthropic/Google (Typescript/Bun) and OpenAI (Rust)", "excerpt": "Their new CLI agent tool [1] is written in Python unlike similar agents from Anthropic/Google (Typescript/Bun) and OpenAI (Rust). It also appears to have first class ACP support, where ACP is the new protocol from Zed [2]. [1] https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe [2] https://zed.dev/acp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}]}