Mistral Image Bytes Input Agent

The source-fidelity code uses deprecated pixtral-12b-2409. Replace it with ministral-14b-2512 before running the example.

image_bytes_input_agent.py

"""
Mistral Image Bytes Input Agent
===============================

Cookbook example for `mistral/image_bytes_input_agent.py`.
"""

import requests
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.mistral.mistral import MistralChat

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=MistralChat(id="pixtral-12b-2409"),
    markdown=True,
)

image_url = (
    "https://tripfixers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/eiffel-tower-with-snow.jpeg"
)


def fetch_image_bytes(url: str) -> bytes:
    headers = {
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
        "Accept": "image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
    }
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response.content


image_bytes_from_url = fetch_image_bytes(image_url)

agent.print_response(
    "Tell me about this image.",
    images=[
        Image(content=image_bytes_from_url),
    ],
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pass

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno mistralai requests

Export your Mistral API key

export MISTRAL_API_KEY="your_mistral_api_key_here"

Update the model

When saving the code, replace pixtral-12b-2409 with ministral-14b-2512.

Run the example

Save the code above as image_bytes_input_agent.py, then run:

python image_bytes_input_agent.py

Full source: cookbook/90_models/mistral/image_bytes_input_agent.py