Cohere MCP server

Connect Cohere to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Cohere MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the rerank documents tool in Cohere
  • Use the delete dataset tool in Cohere
  • Use the cancel embed job tool in Cohere
  • Use the chat tool in Cohere
  • Use the create embed job tool in Cohere
  • Use the tokenize text tool in Cohere

Supported Tools

rerank_documents

Rerank Documents

Rerank a list of documents by semantic relevance to a query using Cohere's Rerank models. Useful for improving search quality by re-ordering results from any existing search system based on meaning rather than keyword matching.

delete_dataset

Delete Dataset

Delete a dataset from your Cohere account by its ID. Datasets are automatically deleted after 30 days, but this allows immediate removal.

cancel_embed_job

Cancel Embed Job

Cancel an active embed job. You will be charged for embeddings processed up to the cancellation point.

chat

Chat

Generate text responses using Cohere's Command family of models. Supports multi-turn conversations with system prompts, tool use for calling external APIs, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with inline citations. Can be configured for reasoning tasks with adjustable thinking budgets.

create_embed_job

Create Embed Job

Launch an asynchronous batch embedding job to embed a large dataset (100K+ documents). Results are stored as a new hosted dataset. Best suited for encoding large corpora for retrieval use cases.

tokenize_text

Tokenize Text

Split text into tokens using byte-pair encoding (BPE) for a specific Cohere model. Useful for estimating costs, understanding how a model processes input, and checking token limits before making API calls.

list_models

List Models

List available Cohere models with their capabilities. Filter by endpoint type (chat, embed, rerank, etc.) to find models compatible with a specific use case.

list_embed_jobs

List Embed Jobs

List all embed jobs in your Cohere account, including their status, model, and associated datasets.

detokenize_tokens

Detokenize Tokens

Convert an array of token IDs back into text using a specific Cohere model's tokenizer. The inverse of tokenization.

get_dataset

Get Dataset

Retrieve details about a specific dataset by its ID, including its type, validation status, and metadata.

list_datasets

List Datasets

List datasets stored in your Cohere account. Datasets are used for batch embedding jobs and can be filtered by type, date, and validation status.

embed_text

Embed Content

Generate embeddings using Cohere's Embed models for text, image data URIs, or mixed text/image inputs. Returns vector representations useful for semantic search, classification, clustering, and similarity comparisons. Supports configurable dimensionality and multiple output formats.

get_embed_job

Get Embed Job

Get the current status and details of a specific embed job by its ID.

transcribe_audio

Transcribe Audio

Transcribe speech from an uploaded audio file using Cohere Transcribe. Supports the current Cohere audio transcription endpoint for automatic speech recognition.

get_dataset_usage

Get Dataset Usage

View total Cohere hosted dataset storage usage for the organization.

create_dataset

Create Dataset

Create a Cohere hosted dataset by uploading a CSV, JSONL, or text file. Embed-input datasets can be used later with batch embed jobs.

get_model

Get Model

Retrieve detailed metadata for a Cohere model, including supported endpoints, context length, tokenizer URL, feature flags, and default sampling parameters.

Connect Cohere to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Cohere in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Cohere MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Cohere tools.

Run Cohere through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Cohere and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Cohere tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Cohere

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Sentry

Track, manage, and resolve application errors and performance issues. List, query, and bulk-update issues and error events with filters like status, assignment, and tags. Create and manage releases, associate commits, and upload source maps. Configure issue alert rules and metric alert rules with notification actions. Set up cron monitors to detect missed or failed scheduled jobs. Build custom dashboards with configurable widgets. Run ad-hoc Discover queries across errors and transactions for performance analysis. Manage organizations, teams, projects, and members. Provision users via SCIM. Access session replay data.

Bitbucket

Manage Git repositories, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket Cloud. Create, fork, and configure repositories within workspaces and projects. Create, review, approve, merge, and decline pull requests with inline code comments. Browse source code, list commits, and manage branches and tags. Trigger, monitor, and manage Bitbucket Pipelines. List workspace members, configure repository default reviewers and branch restrictions, create and manage repository webhooks, and search code across repositories.

Technical notes for Cohere

Generate text and chat completions using Cohere's Command family of large language models, with support for multi-turn conversations, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), tool use, reasoning, vision, structured output, and translation. Create text and image embeddings for semantic search, classification, and clustering. Rerank search results by semantic relevance. Transcribe speech audio. Manage batch embedding jobs and datasets for large-scale document processing. Tokenize and detokenize text for cost estimation. List available models and their capabilities.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Cohere to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Cohere MCP server have?
    The Cohere MCP server exposes 17 tools, including Rerank Documents, Delete Dataset, Cancel Embed Job. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Cohere exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Cohere MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Cohere and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Cohere MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

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