Use Mistral in Kilo Code

Steps

1. 1
   Step 1.

   Sign in to Mistral AI Studio (console.mistral.ai), open API Keys and create a standard Studio API key. Mistral only shows the full key once. You do not need a separate Codestral key.

2. 2
   Step 2.

   VS Code: open Settings (gear icon) and go to the Providers tab to add Mistral and enter your API key. The extension stores it in your kilo.json config file.

3. 3
   Step 3.

   CLI: set the API key as an environment variable.

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   export MISTRAL_API_KEY="your-api-key"

4. 4
   Step 4.

   Or configure it in ~/.config/kilo/kilo.json or ./kilo.json:

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   {
     "provider": {
       "mistral": {
         "env": ["MISTRAL_API_KEY"],
       },
     },
   }

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   Step 5.

   Then set your default model (docs example shown; swap in a current id such as mistral/mistral-medium-latest):

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   {
     "model": "mistral/mistral-large-latest",
   }