Cohere announces North 2 with shared skills and token limits

Cohere announced North 2 on 5 October 2026, combining a redesigned system for coordinating AI agents with new controls over access and token consumption. The enterprise platform update addresses two connected tasks: letting employees reuse agents’ work and giving administrators more ways to govern it.

On the administrative side, Cohere says North Admin can show usage down to individual users and agents. Its flow-control tools let administrators define consumption tiers based on request and token rates for users and groups. The Register also reports that administrators can assign access-control lists to shared libraries and skills, restricting who can use them.

The sharing features give teams several kinds of reusable material. Skills capture instructions for completing tasks; libraries hold shared knowledge and assets. Cohere says users can share agents and automations across an organization, assemble workflows with templates and a drag-and-drop editor, and use memory to retain context between sessions. These are the building blocks for repeating a process without reconstructing it in every conversation.

In its post dated 5 October, Cohere lists connectors for tools including Slack, SharePoint, Outlook, Jira, Linear, Notion and GitHub. Financial-data connections are a separate proposition: providers including PitchBook, Crunchbase and FactSet appear on a planned list, not the list of new connectors.

Cohere also says customers can use its models or bring their own, and can deploy North privately in the cloud, on premises or in an air-gapped environment. That makes model choice and deployment location part of the offer, rather than tying the agent platform to a single hosted model service.

The announcement describes capabilities, not measured results. The supplied accounts do not demonstrate how reliably the redesigned agents complete complex work or what deployments will cost; Cohere directs prospective customers to contact sales for a demo.