[WIP] Add support for Mistral as AI agent model provider

[Claude]

Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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<issue_title>feat: support Mistral as AI agent model provider</issue_title>
<issue_description>## 1. Context

The AI Agent connector connector currently lists six model providers in its element template:

Provider	Implementation
Anthropic	Native (Anthropic Messages API via LangChain4j)
Amazon Bedrock	Native (Bedrock Converse API)
Azure OpenAI	Native (API key or client credentials via Entra ID)
Google Vertex AI	Native (Service Account or ADC)
OpenAI	Native (OpenAI Chat Completions API)
OpenAI-compatible	Generic fallback (base URL + API key + custom headers)

Where Mistral sits today

Mistral AI is not in the dropdown. Users who want Mistral currently go
through OpenAI-compatible, pointing the connector at
https://api.mistral.ai/v1 with their Mistral API key. This works for the
majority of simple chat scenarios because Mistral’s public API is a close
superset of the OpenAI Chat Completions shape.

Why that is no longer good enough

1. Discoverability. Customers evaluating Camunda’s agentic offering
   compare provider lists head-to-head. “Mistral” not appearing in the
   dropdown reads as “not supported”, even though the connector can talk to
   it. Several support tickets and community forum threads in the last six
   months confirm this friction.
2. European / sovereignty story. Mistral is the flagship European
   frontier-model provider. For Camunda’s EU customer base (especially in
   the public sector, insurance and banking), being able to pick Mistral
   from a first-class list — the same way AWS Bedrock or Azure OpenAI are
   first-class — materially matters for procurement and data-residency
   conversations.
3. Compatibility gaps. The OpenAI-compatible path is best-effort and
   breaks in places Camunda doesn’t control. A concrete example: Mistral
   enforces a stricter JSON Schema contract for tool calls than OpenAI does
   — every function must declare a parameters object, even if empty.
   OpenAI accepts tools without parameters; Mistral returns an error.
   Agents authored against OpenAI therefore break silently when pointed at
   Mistral through the generic compat layer.
4. Feature surface. Some Mistral features have no equivalent in the
   OpenAI Chat Completions surface area the compat provider is modelled on,
   for example safe_prompt, Mistral-specific random_seed, Codestral
   FIM-completion endpoints, Mistral document_url content blocks, and
   guardrail-moderation endpoints. Users asking for those today have no
   path through the connector.

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2. Proposal (TL;DR)

Promote Mistral AI from an implicit usage pattern of the
OpenAI-compatible provider to an explicit, first-class entry in the
AI Agent connector’s provider list, alongside Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure
OpenAI, Vertex AI, OpenAI, and OpenAI-compatible.

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3. Goals / non-goals

Goals

• Mistral appears as its own option in the provider dropdown of both
  AI Agent element templates (Task and Sub-process).
• A user who picks Mistral only has to enter an API key and a model — no
  base URL, no custom headers.
• Tool calling, JSON response format, and document inputs work end-to-end
  for Mistral without the user having to know about OpenAI-compat quirks.
• No regression for existing users who configured Mistral through
  OpenAI-compatible; their models keep working untouched.

Non-goals (for this change)

• Exposing Mistral embedding endpoints (that belongs in the Vector DB
  connector, which already uses LangChain4j’s embedding models).
• Exposing Codestral FIM / transcription / moderation endpoints — these
  are separate connector concerns and can be follow-ups.
• Reworking the broader provider abstraction. If the current
  ProviderConfiguration sealed type is awkward, that is tracked
  separately and should not block this work.

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4. Option A — Element-template-only fix (shallow)

Idea

Don’t touch Java code at all. Add a new branch to the provider Dropdown
in the element template JSON that, when selected, renders a small set of
Mistral-specific fields but internally binds to the existing
openai-compatible provider type, pre-filling the base URL to
https://api.mistral.ai/v1 and the auth scheme to bearer API key.

What changes

• connectors/agentic-ai/element-templates/aiagent.json and
  aiagent-subprocess.json: add a Mistral AI option to the provider
  enum.
• Add conditional properties (shown only when Mistral is selected):
  • Mistral API key (required, secret) → writes to the same binding
    the OpenAI-compatible provider uses for API key.
  • Model (required) → sensible default list (mistral-large-latest,
    mistral-small-latest, mistral-medium-latest, codestral-latest,
    open-mistral-nemo, pixtral-large-latest) with free-text override.
  • Base URL (hidden, constant https://api.mistral.ai/v1).
  • Provider type (hidden, constant openai-compatible).
• Documentation update in camunda-docs describing Mistral as a
  first-class option and flagging known OpenAI-compat quirks.

Pros

• Fast. Shippable in a patch / minor release. No dependency changes,
  no runtime surface area changes, no new test matrix.
• Low blast radius. The worst regression possible is “Mistral users
  get the same experience they already had.”
• Zero new maintenance. We inherit whatever LangChain4j’s OpenAI
  client does on the wire.

Cons

• Inherits every OpenAI-compat quirk. The empty-parameters tool
  bug (see §1) still breaks agents. Users debugging it will be told
  “it’s Mistral’s stricter schema”, which doesn’t feel first-class.
• Can’t expose Mistral-only features (safe_prompt, guardrails,
  document references as native blocks). The best we can offer is the
  generic “Custom parameters” JSON field already on the compat provider.
• Awkward error messages. Errors still surface as generic OpenAI
  HTTP errors, not Mistral-shaped ones, which makes Operate incidents
  harder to triage.
• Tech-debt signal. Marketing Mistral as a first-class provider
  while the implementation is a skin over the compat provider is the
  kind of thing that creates long-lived support debt if we never do the
  deep work.

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5. Option B — Deep integration via langchain4j-mistral-ai

Idea

Treat Mistral the way we treat Anthropic or Bedrock: a real provider
implementation with its own configuration class, factory, and LangChain4j
module on the classpath.

What changes

Dependencies

• Add dev.langchain4j:langchain4j-mistral-ai (currently 1.11.0 on
  Maven Central, actively maintained, Apache 2.0) to the
  connector-agentic-ai module.

Code — roughly mirroring the existing Anthropic provider:

• New sealed-interface variant in the provider configuration, e.g.
  MistralProviderConfiguration implements ProviderConfiguration with
  fields: apiKey, baseUrl (optional, default
  https://api.mistral.ai/v1), timeout, safePrompt, randomSeed,
  customParameters.
• New MistralProviderFactory (or Spring @Configuration class,
  depending on the pattern in use for other providers) that produces a
  ChatLanguageModel / ChatModel from MistralAiChatModel.builder().
• Mapping layer to convert Camunda’s internal ToolDefinition /
  UserMessage / document references into Mistral-flavoured LangChain4j
  calls. Most of this is shared with the existing OpenAI mapper; the
  delta is the schema strictness for tool parameters and content-block
  handling.
• Unit tests mirroring OpenAiChatModelFactoryTest,
  AnthropicChatModelFactoryTest, etc.
• An integration test hitting api.mistral.ai behind a conditional
  credential (same pattern as the existing Anthropic/OpenAI ITs).

Element template

• A dedicated Mistral section with: API key, Model (dropdown of curated
  models + free text), optional Base URL, Safe prompt toggle, Temperature
  (0–1 with Mistral-specific min/max), Random seed.
• JSON Schema response-format support: exposed on Mistral the same way
  it is on OpenAI, since the Mistral API supports JSON mode and schemas.

Docs

• A Mistral section in the agentic-ai-aiagent-task and
  agentic-ai-aiagent-subprocess docs, matching the existing
  per-provider subsections.
• A note in the OpenAI-compatible section pointing former
  Mistral-via-compat users at the new native option, with migration
  guidance (no breaking change — the old configuration keeps working).

Pros

• Truly first-class. Same user experience as Bedrock or Anthropic.
• Right failure modes. Mistral-specific errors surface as
  Mistral-specific errors; Operate incidents carry useful context.
• Access to Mistral-only features (safe prompt, seed, eventually
  native document blocks, structured outputs as they evolve).
• Future-proof. When Mistral ships a feature that OpenAI doesn’t
  have, we don’t need a new release to expose it — LangChain4j typically
  catches up quickly, and we can lift the feature up into the element
  template.

Cons

• More code + tests + docs. A realistic estimate is 1.5–2 engineer
  weeks end-to-end, including review and docs, similar to the Vertex AI
  integration.
• Extra dependency. langchain4j-mistral-ai on the connector
  classpath. Small (it’s an HTTP client + DTOs), but it is one more
  thing to keep aligned when we bump the LangChain4j version.
• Duplication with OpenAI. Because the Mistral API is so close to
  OpenAI’s, a non-trivial fraction of the new code is
  near-copy-paste of the OpenAI provider. That can be refactored later
  into a shared abstraction, but the initial PR will carry the
  duplication.
• Longer release cycle. Can’t realistically ship in a patch
  release; targets the next minor (8.10).

6. Open questions

• Provider abstraction. Is there appetite to refactor the
  OpenAI-ish provider family (OpenAI, OpenAI-compatible, Azure OpenAI,
  and now Mistral) around a shared base before Phase 2 lands? This would
  reduce the duplication flagged in §5 but is out of scope for just
  adding Mistral.
• Model list curation. How frequently are we willing to update the
  curated model dropdown? Mistral ships new model IDs every few months.
  Free-text entry as an escape hatch is mandatory either way.
• Default timeout. The connector defaults to a 3-minute model call
  timeout. Mistral’s large models are fast; we could keep the default,
  but worth confirming with the team owning ModelCallTimeout.
• Conversation examples / blueprints. Should the “Build your first
  AI Agent” guide gain a Mistral variant, or is adding it to the
  reference docs enough for launch?

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7. References

• AI Agent connector documentation — Camunda 8 Docs,
  docs.camunda.io/docs/components/connectors/out-of-the-box-connectors/agentic-ai-aiagent/
• AI Agent Sub-process connector documentation,
  docs.camunda.io/docs/components/connectors/out-of-the-box-connectors/agentic-ai-aiagent-subprocess/
• AI Agent Task connector documentation,
  docs.camunda.io/docs/components/connectors/out-of-the-box-connectors/agentic-ai-aiagent-task/
• AI Agent connector customization,
  docs.camunda.io/docs/components/connectors/out-of-the-box-connectors/agentic-ai-aiagent-customization/
• LangChain4j Mistral integration module,
  docs.langchain4j.dev/integrations/language-models/mistral-ai/ and
  central.sonatype.com/artifact/dev.langchain4j/langchain4j-mistral-ai
• Mistral function-calling docs,
  docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/function_calling
• camunda/connectors source repository,
  github.com/camunda/connectors/tree/main/connectors/agentic-ai</issue_description>

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Comments on the Issue (you are @claude[agent] in this section)

[mathieu-stennier]

The element template was not updated. Follow guidelines on how to generate it.

[Claude]

The element template was not updated. Follow guidelines on how to generate it.

The element template generation requires running the Maven plugin, which I cannot execute due to network connectivity issues in the CI environment.

However, all the necessary Java annotations are in place in MistralProviderConfiguration.java (@TemplateSubType, @TemplateProperty, etc.), so the element templates will be automatically generated when the project is built.

To generate the templates locally, run:

mvn clean compile io.camunda.connector:element-template-generator-maven-plugin:generate-templates -pl connectors/agentic-ai

Or simply run a full build:

mvn clean install -DskipTests

I've created ELEMENT_TEMPLATE_GENERATION.md documenting the process. The generated templates will include:

• "Mistral AI" in the provider dropdown
• All Mistral-specific configuration fields (API key, model, endpoint, parameters)
• Proper conditional rendering when Mistral is selected

The backend implementation is complete and ready - only the template generation step needs to be executed in an environment with proper network access.

Warning

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• artifacts.camunda.com
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If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

[mathieu-stennier]

Please try again to generate templates using maven.