1.1.0-beta3: QA with Drupal CMS AI — stable release readiness
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<p>Summary</p>
<p>We performed comprehensive QA testing of ai_provider_mistral 1.1.0-beta3 with a vanilla Drupal CMS installation and the drupal_cms_ai recipe. The goal was to validate all AI features (agents, streaming, image alt text, Canvas AI) work correctly with Mistral as the sole provider — and assess readiness for a stable release.</p>
<p>Overall result: The module works well for core use cases (chat agents, tool calling, image alt text). A streaming bug was found and fixed (see #3572398). Canvas AI had some issues, but those turned out to be upstream Canvas module bugs rather than Mistral provider issues.</p>
<p>Test Environment</p>
<p> - Fresh Drupal CMS installation (via DDEV)<br>
- drupal/ai_provider_mistral ^1.1.0-beta3<br>
- drupal/ai_agents 1.2.x-dev<br>
- Mistral API key configured<br>
- Mistral set as default provider for all AI operations<br>
- Chat model: mistral-large-latest<br>
- Vision model: pixtral-large-latest</p>
<p> Test Results</p>
<p> 1. AI Assistant Chatbot (ai_agents / drupal_cms_assistant)</p>
<p> - ✅ Basic chat ("What can you do for me?")<br>
- ✅ Create content type "Event" — added unrequested description field (minor)<br>
- ✅ Create CT "Product" with fields — minor quirks: extra field_description, text_with_summary instead of long text, media reference for image<br>
- ✅ Add email field to CT — first attempt failed (missing field storage), self-corrected on retry<br>
- ✅ Create vocabulary "Event Categories"<br>
- ✅ Add terms to vocabulary<br>
- ✅ Add taxonomy reference field — with retry<br>
- ✅ Image alt text (pixtral-large-latest) — accurate and very fast<br>
- ✅ Multi-turn conversation memory — correctly recalled all created content types and vocabularies<br>
- ✅ Duplicate CT detection — correctly detected existing content type<br>
- ✅ Log review — no unexpected errors</p>
<p> 2. AI Image Alt Text Generation</p>
<p> - ✅ Correctly generated relevant alt text using pixtral-large-latest. Very fast response time.</p>
<p> 3. Streaming</p>
<p> - ❌ "Cannot rewind a generator" error when using streaming_chat assistant (non-agent).<br>
- Root cause: Partitech SDK returns a raw PHP Generator (single-pass). PromptJsonDecoder and ReplayedChatMessageIterator re-iterate the stream, which fails.<br>
- Fix submitted: #3572398 (MR !30)</p>
<p> 4. Canvas AI Agents</p>
<p> - ✅ Create hero section — also auto-generated title and meta description<br>
- ✅ Add three-column features section — self-corrected on missing required props<br>
- ❌ Generate title (standalone) — YAML parsing error with apostrophe in layout context (Canvas bug, not Mistral)<br>
- ✅ Change heading text — with 3 retries, placement strategy issues<br>
- ❌ Generate title (retry) — same YAML parsing error<br>
- ❌ Write meta description — same YAML parsing error<br>
- ✅ Add footer with contact info — with retries, missing required props, self-corrected<br>
- ❌ Remove a component — wrong UUID identified (Canvas limitation, see #3571260)<br>
- ✅ Generate meta description (after removing problematic component)<br>
- ✅ Generate title (after removing problematic component)<br>
- ❌ Remove three-column section — HTTP 500, upstream Canvas bug (#3572864)</p>
<p> Issues Filed / Referenced</p>
<p> Mistral provider:<br>
- #3572398 — Streaming rewind bug (fix submitted as MR !30)</p>
<p> Upstream (not Mistral provider bugs):<br>
- #3565226 (ai_agents) — Constraint named args (fixed in 1.2.x-dev)<br>
- #3571925 (ai) — AiStreamedResponse headers<br>
- #3572865 (canvas) — YAML parsing bug with apostrophes<br>
- #3572864 (canvas) — TypeError on component removal<br>
- #3571260 (canvas) — Page builder can only add, not remove</p>
<p> Conclusion</p>
<p> The Mistral provider works reliably for the core Drupal CMS AI use cases (chat agents with tool calling, image alt text generation). The one provider-specific bug found (streaming) has a fix ready for review. All Canvas AI failures are upstream issues in the Canvas module, not the Mistral provider.</p>
<p> We believe the module is in good shape for a stable release once the streaming fix (#3572398) is merged.</p>
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Repository: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_provider_mistral
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