Cohere Plugin

<Warning> This plugin is not yet available in the Eliza plugin registry. To use Cohere models today, configure them through the [OpenRouter plugin](/plugin-registry/llm/openrouter) using the appropriate model ID. </Warning>

The Cohere plugin connects Eliza agents to Cohere's language models, providing access to the Command family of models optimized for enterprise use cases including retrieval-augmented generation and tool use.

On-demand plugin. This plugin is resolved from the remote elizaOS plugin registry and auto-installs when its API key is detected. It is not included in Eliza's bundled plugins.json index.

Package: @elizaos/plugin-cohere

Installation

bash

eliza plugins install @elizaos/plugin-cohere

Auto-Enable

The plugin auto-enables when COHERE_API_KEY is present:

bash

export COHERE_API_KEY=your-cohere-api-key

Configuration

Environment Variable	Required	Description
`COHERE_API_KEY`	Yes	Cohere API key from cohere.com

eliza.json Example

json

{
  "auth": {
    "profiles": {
      "default": {
        "provider": "cohere",
        "model": "command-r-plus"
      }
    }
  }
}

Supported Models

Model	Context	Best For
`command-r-plus`	128k	Complex reasoning, multi-step tasks
`command-r`	128k	Balanced performance and cost
`command-light`	4k	Fast, lightweight tasks
`command`	4k	General-purpose

Features

Streaming responses
Tool use / function calling
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with grounded answers
Embeddings for semantic search
Reranking for search result optimization
Multilingual support (100+ languages)
Structured JSON output

OpenRouter Plugin — Route between Cohere and other providers
Model Providers — Compare all providers