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Cohere provides OpenAI-compatible inference through its Compatibility API. OpenClaw ships the Cohere provider during its externalization transition and also publishes it as an official external plugin with the Command A model catalog.

PropertyValue
Provider idcohere
Pluginbundled during transition; official external package
Auth env varCOHERE_API_KEY
Onboarding flag--auth-choice cohere-api-key
Direct CLI flag--cohere-api-key <key>
APIOpenAI-compatible (openai-completions)
Base URLhttps://api.cohere.ai/compatibility/v1
Default modelcohere/command-a-03-2025

Get started

Section titled “Get started”
  1. Cohere is included in current OpenClaw packages. If it is unavailable, install the external package and restart the Gateway:
Terminal window
openclaw plugins install @openclaw/cohere-provider
openclaw gateway restart
  1. Create a Cohere API key.
  2. Run onboarding:
Terminal window
openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --auth-choice cohere-api-key \
  --cohere-api-key "$COHERE_API_KEY"
  1. Confirm the catalog is available:
Terminal window
openclaw models list --provider cohere

The default model is set only when no primary model is already configured.

Environment-only setup

Section titled “Environment-only setup”

Make COHERE_API_KEY available to the Gateway process, then select the Cohere model:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "cohere/command-a-03-2025" },
    },
  },
}
Section titled “Related”