cohere-best-practices
Installation
SKILL.md
Cohere Best Practices Reference
Official Resources
- Docs & Cookbooks: https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-developer-experience
- API Reference: https://docs.cohere.com/reference/about
Model Selection Guide
| Use Case | Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| General chat/reasoning | command-a-03-2025 |
Latest Command A model |
| RAG with citations | command-r-plus-08-2024 |
Excellent grounded generation |
| Cost-sensitive tasks | command-r-08-2024 |
Good balance of quality/cost |
| Embeddings (English) | embed-english-v3.0 |
Best for English-only |
| Embeddings (Multilingual) | embed-multilingual-v3.0 |
100+ languages |
| Reranking | rerank-v3.5 |
Good balance |
| Reranking (Quality) | rerank-v4.0-pro |
Best quality, slower |
| Reranking (Speed) | rerank-v4.0-fast |
Optimized for latency |