Mistral Vibe: Token Usage Display, Clickable URLs, and macOS Image Paste

Mistral Vibe v2.18.0 Adds Live Token Usage, Clickable URLs, and macOS Image Paste

Mistral Vibe's v2.18.0 release focuses on day-to-day quality of life inside the terminal UI, with three changes that regular users will notice immediately: a live context window token counter, native clipboard image paste on macOS, and clickable URLs in tool output.

An Always-Visible Context Window Counter

The headline addition is a live token usage counter pinned to the bottom of the terminal UI. As a session grows, the counter shows how much of the model's context budget has been consumed in real time. For anyone running long agentic sessions, this removes the guesswork around when a conversation is approaching the context limit, making it easier to decide when to compact, summarize, or start fresh before quality degrades.

Paste Images Directly on macOS

macOS users can now paste images straight from the clipboard into the TUI. Previously, feeding a screenshot or a diagram to a vision-capable model meant saving the image to disk first and then referencing the file. With direct clipboard paste, a developer can grab a screenshot and drop it into the prompt in one step, which streamlines vision-model workflows and bug-report style interactions.

Clickable Links and Faster Startup

URLs returned by the web fetch and web search tools are now rendered as clickable hyperlinks in terminal emulators that support them, so developers can jump straight to a source from tool output without copying and pasting. The release also trims startup time by deferring heavy Python imports until they are actually needed, so the UI becomes interactive faster.

Reliability Polish

The update also refines the MCP OAuth flow in the /mcp panel for better clarity, following the OAuth commands that debuted in v2.17.0, and resolves several macOS-specific reliability issues including keychain credential access failures and repeated keyring prompt loops.