Mistral renames Le Chat to Vibe, a single agent for work and coding

Mistral AI has renamed Le Chat to Vibe and introduced a single agent for two fundamentally different jobs: Work Mode, for complex multistep workflows, and Code Mode, for software development from the initial request to a finished pull request that the team can review.

One agent, one license

All Le Chat accounts have been migrated to Vibe automatically. Conversation history, settings and pricing plans are fully preserved. The change is more than a rebrand: Mistral has put both modes under a single subscription, so users no longer have to choose separate products for document work and for coding.

Vibe runs on Mistral's flagship models, optimized for reasoning tasks, agentic workflows and code writing. Before it carries out any complex task, the agent builds a plan and submits it for approval. It starts work only after you confirm. This approach reduces the risk of the agent acting on its own initiative and lets you stop at any stage.

What Work Mode can do

In Work mode, Vibe connects to corporate data sources and handles a task from start to finish, from gathering information to producing a finished document or report. Key capabilities:

• Enterprise knowledge search: integration with Google Workspace, Outlook, SharePoint, Slack, GitHub and custom connectors
• Structured data analysis: connect a database or upload a spreadsheet and get charts and dashboards directly in the chat
• Document synthesis: drafts of briefs, reports and RFP responses through the Canvas tool, with export to Notion, SharePoint or email
• Task scheduling: set a prompt once, and the agent runs on the schedule you define and sends a notification with the result
• Custom skills: extensions built on open standards to automate recurring workflows

Every execution step is displayed in real time, and any tool call can be expanded to show its inputs and outputs. There is no black box. For an individual user, this means the morning routine of "sort the inbox, pull the numbers, write an update" becomes a single prompt. For an organization, processes tied to internal documents and mailboxes can be delegated to an agent whose access rights are set at the administrator level.

Code Mode and the VS Code extension

Code Mode is a separate surface in the Vibe web app, from which you can connect GitHub, manage projects and start sessions. The agent works in an isolated sandbox: it reads the repository, writes and refactors code, fixes bugs and creates pull requests. The user sees the diff as it develops and decides whether to approve each sensitive action. Several sessions run in parallel and keep going while the computer is turned off.

A Slack integration arrives in June, allowing users to start development sessions directly from the messenger.

An official Vibe extension for VS Code is also launching. The agent appears in the sidebar next to open files, reads context automatically, supports line-range selection and @ mentions to pull in files from other directories. The extension runs on the same foundation as Vibe CLI, so functionality is synchronized between the two interfaces.

"Le Chat is now Vibe: one agent and one license for work and code.

Every conversation, setting and plan has been carried over." — the Mistral team.

What this means

Mistral is entering the market with a single product that competes in two segments at once. Work Mode challenges Microsoft 365 Copilot and corporate AI assistants, while Code Mode competes directly with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Unifying everything under one license lowers the barrier for enterprise deals: a single contract covers both business and engineering use cases.