Mistral AI Core Workflow A: Chat Completions

Overview

Production chat completion patterns for Mistral AI: multi-turn conversations, streaming responses, JSON mode structured output, guardrails/moderation, and model selection. Uses the @mistralai/mistralai SDK.

Prerequisites

• Completed mistral-install-auth setup
• MISTRAL_API_KEY environment variable set
• Understanding of Mistral model tiers

Instructions

Step 1: Basic Chat Completion

import { Mistral } from '@mistralai/mistralai';

const client = new Mistral({ apiKey: process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY });