Agent skill

Cohere Upgrade Migration

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Cohere Upgrade Migration

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill cohere-upgrade-migration -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace cohere-upgrade-migration --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/cohere-upgrade-migration .claude/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cohere-upgrade-migration
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
450 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback.

  • Works in 6 steps: Inventory SDK versions, endpoints,… → Read the current migration and… → Add golden contract tests around current… → …
  • Upgrading Cohere dependencies
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Tool Discipline and Current Contract, plus 7 more sections
  • Needs CO_API_KEY

What it does

Cohere Upgrade Migration is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback. Use when upgrading Cohere dependencies or endpoints. Trigger with "Cohere v1 to v2", "upgrade Cohere SDK", or "Cohere deprecation".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; live verification requires network access and an approved Cohere API key

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Integration testing. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Upgrading Cohere dependencies
  • With Cohere v1 to v2
  • Upgrade Cohere SDK
  • Cohere deprecation

Example prompts

  • “Cohere v1 to v2”
  • “upgrade Cohere SDK”
  • “Cohere deprecation”
  • “/cohere-upgrade-migration”

Requirements

  • A credential in CO_API_KEY
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live verification requires network access and an approved Cohere API key
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Inventory SDK versions, endpoints, parameters, models, stream events, connectors, fine-tunes, and response parsing.
  2. Read the current migration and deprecation pages and classify each dependency as live, legacy, deprecated, or shut down.
  3. Add golden contract tests around current user-visible behavior and failure paths.
  4. Introduce the v2 client and provider adapter while retaining a feature-flagged rollback path.
  5. Migrate request and response shapes, then reindex embeddings if their model contract changes.
  6. Canary representative traffic, compare quality and operations, and remove v1 only after rollback criteria remain clear.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • WebFetch
    • Write
    • Edit

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.cohere.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • CO_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; live verification requires network access and an approved Cohere API key

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Cohere Upgrade Migration loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 450 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 450 words, ~1,100 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
cohere-upgrade-migration
description
Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback. Use when upgrading Cohere dependencies or endpoints. Trigger with "Cohere v1 to v2", "upgrade Cohere SDK", or "Cohere deprecation".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; live verification requires network access and an approved Cohere API key
argument-hint
[repository-path] [from-version] [to-version]
version
1.6.0
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
license
MIT
tags
saas, cohere, migration
model
inherit
effort
high

Cohere API and SDK Upgrade

Overview

Inventory legacy behavior, move through the documented v2 contract, and prove semantic parity before removing rollback paths.

Prerequisites

  • The target repository, runtime, environment, and accountable owner
  • An approved Cohere team and key for any live verification
  • Current quality, security, privacy, capacity, and change-control requirements

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect code, configuration, and evidence. Use WebFetch only for current Cohere primary documentation. Use Write or Edit only when the user requested implementation and the exact target files are known; never write credentials or customer content.

Current Contract

  • V2 uses messages instead of separate message, preamble, and managed conversation history fields.
  • V2 requires explicit models; Embed also requires embedding types.
  • V2 tools use JSON Schema and correlate results with tool-call IDs.
  • Legacy Generate, Summarize, Classify, managed connectors, selected models, and fine-tuning paths appear on Cohere's deprecation schedule.

Authentication

Use an environment-specific key injected from an approved secret manager. Never print, persist, commit, or place CO_API_KEY in an example. Confirm access with the least costly bounded operation appropriate to the task, and treat key creation, rotation, revocation, role changes, and production-capacity requests as owner-approved actions.

Instructions

  1. Inventory SDK versions, endpoints, parameters, models, stream events, connectors, fine-tunes, and response parsing.
  2. Read the current migration and deprecation pages and classify each dependency as live, legacy, deprecated, or shut down.
  3. Add golden contract tests around current user-visible behavior and failure paths.
  4. Introduce the v2 client and provider adapter while retaining a feature-flagged rollback path.
  5. Migrate request and response shapes, then reindex embeddings if their model contract changes.
  6. Canary representative traffic, compare quality and operations, and remove v1 only after rollback criteria remain clear.
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Approval Boundaries

Do not expose or rotate keys, change Cohere Team roles, accept commercial terms, enable sensitive production data, increase spend or capacity, switch production models, send a support bundle, or execute model-proposed side effects without the accountable owner's approval. Keep diagnosis read-only unless implementation was requested.

Output

Return the resolved API and model contract, files or settings inspected, evidence collected, validation result, remaining risk, owner, and rollback or next action. Redact keys, authorization headers, prompts, retrieved documents, embeddings, customer identifiers, and unrestricted environment output.

Error Handling

ConditionResponse
Missing v2 featureUse an application-owned tool or retain a time-bound v1 path if still supported.
Embedding driftBuild a parallel index and cut over atomically.
Stream parser failsUpdate from legacy text events to typed v2 events.
Quality regressionStop the canary and preserve the old model path.

Examples

Use this compact handoff shape to keep the selected scope, validation evidence, and operational result reviewable.

Input:

text
from=Client-v1; to=ClientV2; endpoints=chat,embed; canary=10%

Expected handoff:

text
contracts=pass; deprecated-calls=0; quality=within-threshold; rollback=ready

Resources

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/cohere-upgrade-migration of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Cohere Upgrade Migration

What does Cohere Upgrade Migration do?

Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback. Cohere Upgrade Migration is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Migrate Cohere API v1 or older SDK usage to v2 with contract tests, model lifecycle checks, canarying, and rollback.

When should I use Cohere Upgrade Migration?

Cohere Upgrade Migration fits situations like: upgrading Cohere dependencies; with Cohere v1 to v2; upgrade Cohere SDK; cohere deprecation.

How do I install Cohere Upgrade Migration in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill cohere-upgrade-migration -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/cohere-upgrade-migration in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cohere Upgrade Migration in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill cohere-upgrade-migration -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/cohere-upgrade-migration in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cohere Upgrade Migration in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill cohere-upgrade-migration -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration, .gemini/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration, .github/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration and .opencode/skills/cohere-upgrade-migration in your project.

What does Cohere Upgrade Migration need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Cohere Upgrade Migration needs credentials named CO_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in CO_API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live verification requires network access and an approved Cohere API key.

Does Cohere Upgrade Migration access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: docs.cohere.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cohere Upgrade Migration safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cohere Upgrade Migration use?

Cohere Upgrade Migration is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cohere Upgrade Migration use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 820 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Cohere Upgrade Migration?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.