---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "cohere-ai"
kind: "ai_answer"
operator: "Cohere"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "low"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/cohere-ai.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/cohere-ai/"
---

# cohere-ai

> Undocumented agent with UA 'cohere-ai; +https://cohere.com/crawler'. Secondary sources say it is possibly dispatched by Cohere's AI chat products to fetch content for user prompts; Cohere has not stated its purpose, and cohere.com/crawler returned 404 on 2026-10-23.

## Dossier

- Kind: AI search & answer engines
- Operator: Cohere (https://cohere.com/)
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: cohere-ai
- Feeds: unknown
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. No first-party statement; a secondary directory lists it as expected to follow robots.txt.
- Verification: No published method
- Labels matched in our logs: cohere-ai

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

Possible enterprise-RAG reader via Cohere; low signal until Cohere documents it.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 4 requests on 1 days; first seen 2026-09-25, last seen 2026-09-25; Dormant.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://knownagents.com/agents/cohere-ai
- https://cohere.com/crawler

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md