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Cohere reranker

Reorders retrieved memories using Cohere's hosted Rerank API (v2), selected via RERANKER_PROVIDER=cohere. Reranking reorders retrieved memories by relevance after hybrid search.

Enable it

bash
RERANKER_PROVIDER=cohere
COHERE_API_KEY=<your-cohere-key>

Configuration

VariableDefaultDescription
RERANKER_PROVIDERnoneSet to cohere.
COHERE_API_KEYnoneCohere API key sent as a bearer token.

The rerank model defaults to rerank-english-v3.0.

Notes

  • Calls Cohere's hosted API at https://api.cohere.com/v2/rerank; requires network access and a valid key.
  • If COHERE_API_KEY is unset, a warning is logged at init and rerank calls fail at runtime.
  • Results are sorted by relevance score defensively, regardless of API ordering.

The memory layer for AI agents.