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Mistral Vibe: Edit Queued Messages Before Sending

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Mistral Vibe's message queue — which holds messages typed while the agent or a shell command is still running — now supports selecting and editing a queued message before it gets sent. Instead of deleting and retyping a queued instruction to fix it, developers can now edit it in place. The change extends a feature line that began with basic message queuing in June 2026 and continued with slash commands during active agent runs in August 2026.

Key Takeaways

  • Mistral Vibe's message queue, first introduced in June 2026, now supports selecting and editing a queued message before it sends.
  • Developers no longer need to delete and retype a queued message to fix a typo or change an instruction — it can be edited in place.
  • The update builds on the existing Esc-to-pause, Ctrl+C-to-drop, Enter-to-flush queue controls, adding a new edit interaction on top.
  • It ships in the same v2.24.4 release (August 26, 2026) as auto-generated session titles and faster model-connection reuse.
  • This continues a string of queue and slash-command usability upgrades, following the August 20, 2026 change that let slash commands run while the agent was busy.
  • The change targets a specific workflow: queuing several follow-up instructions during a long agent turn, then refining them before they're actually sent.

Editable Message Queue

Mistral Vibe added the ability to select and edit queued messages in version 2.24.4. The underlying message queue itself is not new — Mistral Vibe first shipped it back in June 2026 (v2.15.0), letting developers type follow-up instructions while the agent or a !bash command was still running, with those messages held above the input and released with Esc (pause), Ctrl+C (drop the last message), or Enter (flush the queue). What changed in this release is control over the queue's contents: rather than only appending new messages or discarding the most recent one, users can now select any queued message and switch into an edit mode to revise its text before it is sent to the agent.

This closes a gap in a common vibe-coding workflow. Developers often queue up several follow-up prompts while waiting on a long agent turn — clarifications, corrections, or new instructions — and previously had no way to fix a typo or rethink a queued instruction without deleting it outright and retyping it from scratch. With edit mode, a queued message can simply be corrected in place, preserving the order of the rest of the queue.

The addition follows directly from the August 20, 2026 update that let slash commands and setting pickers run while the agent or a command was still active, continuing a broader push across recent Mistral Vibe releases to make the CLI more responsive and controllable during long-running agent turns rather than forcing developers to wait idle for a turn to finish.