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Cohere Chat API

The Cohere Chat API enables developers to integrate large language model text generation capabilities into their applications through a conversational interface. It supports multi-turn conversations, tool use with JSON schema definitions, retrieval-augmented generation, and streaming responses. The API is available via the v2 endpoint and works with Cohere's Command family of models.

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What You Can Do

POST
Chat — Chat with a Cohere model
/v2/chat
POST
Chatstream — Chat with streaming response
/v2/chat/stream

MCP Tools

chat

Chat with a Cohere model

chatstream

Chat with streaming response

Capability Spec

cohere-capability.yaml Raw ↑ 
naftiko: 1.0.0-alpha2
info:
  label: Cohere Chat API
  description: The Cohere Chat API enables developers to integrate large language model text generation capabilities into
    their applications through a conversational interface. It supports multi-turn conversations, tool use with JSON schema
    definitions, retrieval-augmented generation, and streaming responses. The API is available via the v2 endpoint and works
    with Cohere's Command family of models.
  tags:
  - Cohere
  - API
  created: '2026-05-06'
  modified: '2026-05-06'
capability:
  consumes:
  - type: http
    namespace: cohere
    baseUri: https://api.cohere.com
    description: Cohere Chat API HTTP API.
    authentication:
      type: bearer
      token: '{{COHERE_TOKEN}}'
    resources:
    - name: v2-chat
      path: /v2/chat
      operations:
      - name: chat
        method: POST
        description: Chat with a Cohere model
        outputRawFormat: json
        outputParameters:
        - name: result
          type: object
          value: $.
    - name: v2-chat-stream
      path: /v2/chat/stream
      operations:
      - name: chatstream
        method: POST
        description: Chat with streaming response
        outputRawFormat: json
        outputParameters:
        - name: result
          type: object
          value: $.
  exposes:
  - type: rest
    port: 8080
    namespace: cohere-rest
    description: REST adapter for Cohere Chat API.
    resources:
    - path: /v2/chat
      name: chat
      operations:
      - method: POST
        name: chat
        description: Chat with a Cohere model
        call: cohere.chat
        outputParameters:
        - type: object
          mapping: $.
    - path: /v2/chat/stream
      name: chatstream
      operations:
      - method: POST
        name: chatstream
        description: Chat with streaming response
        call: cohere.chatstream
        outputParameters:
        - type: object
          mapping: $.
  - type: mcp
    port: 9090
    namespace: cohere-mcp
    transport: http
    description: MCP adapter for Cohere Chat API for AI agent use.
    tools:
    - name: chat
      description: Chat with a Cohere model
      hints:
        readOnly: false
        destructive: false
        idempotent: false
      call: cohere.chat
      outputParameters:
      - type: object
        mapping: $.
    - name: chatstream
      description: Chat with streaming response
      hints:
        readOnly: false
        destructive: false
        idempotent: false
      call: cohere.chatstream
      outputParameters:
      - type: object
        mapping: $.
binds:
- namespace: env
  keys:
    COHERE_TOKEN: COHERE_TOKEN