Expanding Ollama Buddy: Mistral Codestral Integration

Ollama Buddy now supports Mistral’s Codestral - a powerful code-generation model from Mistral AI that seamlessly integrates into the ollama-buddy ecosystem.

https://github.com/captainflasmr/ollama-buddy

https://melpa.org/#/ollama-buddy

So now we have:

• Local Ollama models — full control, complete privacy
• OpenAI — extensive model options and API maturity
• Claude — reasoning and complex analysis
• Gemini — multimodal capabilities
• Grok — advanced reasoning models
• Codestral — specialized code generation NEW

To get up and running…

First, sign up at Mistral AI and generate an API key from your dashboard.

Add this to your Emacs configuration:

(use-package ollama-buddy
  :bind
  ("C-c o" . ollama-buddy-menu)
  ("C-c O" . ollama-buddy-transient-menu-wrapper)
  :custom
  (ollama-buddy-codestral-api-key
   (auth-source-pick-first-password :host "ollama-buddy-codestral" :user "apikey"))
  :config
  (require 'ollama-buddy-codestral nil t))

Once configured, Codestral models will appear in your model list with an s: prefix (e.g., s:codestral-latest). You can:

• Select it from the model menu (C-c m)
• Use it with any command that supports model selection
• Switch between local and cloud models on-the-fly