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# Introduction

## What is it?

mistral-common is a set of tools to help you work with Mistral models.

We open-source the tokenizers, validation and normalization code that can be used with our models.

This ensures that you can take full advantage of our models for the following features:

- tokenization of text, images and tools calls.
- validation and normalization of requests, messages, tool calls, and responses. This is built on top of the Pydantic library.

We also version our tokenizers to guarantee backward compatibility for the models that we release.

## For who ?

This library is for you if you want to:

- use our models in your own application.
- build your own models and want to use the same tokenization and validation code as we do.

## Table of contents

Explore the following sections:

- Quickstart for simple code snippets to use the library for different tasks.
- Usage section to install and use the library.
- Code Reference section to see the code documentation.

## Launch the documentation locally

To launch the documentation locally, simply run the following command at the root of the repository:

    mkdocs serve