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Cohere has launched North 2, a major upgrade to its enterprise AI agent platform that adds a redesigned agent orchestration harness, cross-session memory, reusable organizational skills, and more detailed controls over token spending.
The release is aimed at companies trying to move agentic AI from isolated pilots into governed production systems. North 2 gives administrators more control over where AI runs, which models can be used, how agents access enterprise data, and how much teams are allowed to spend on AI usage.
The biggest North release to date, the company’s launch post on X said North 2 includes more than 15 new features.
North 2 Adds Memory, Skills, and Shared Enterprise Knowledge
North is Cohere’s platform for building and deploying enterprise AI agents and automations. With North 2, the company rebuilt the agent harness that coordinates multi-step workflows, letting agents handle more complex processes while keeping human approval where needed.
North 2’s product changes center on persistence and reuse. It introduces Memory, which allows agents to keep context across sessions instead of restarting without prior context each time. It also adds Skills, reusable capabilities that agents can call when completing tasks, and Libraries, shared organizational knowledge and assets that teams can make available across workflows.
Many enterprise AI deployments break down when every workflow has to be rebuilt from scratch. A sales team, finance team, or security operations group may need different automations, but they often draw from the same internal documents, procedures, and repeatable actions. North 2’s design moves more of that shared context into platform-level components that can be reused across agents.
Cohere also added Applications, which let users create decks, dashboards, documents, and lightweight apps from natural language, along with Automations for workflow templates, a drag-and-drop builder, and performance monitoring.
North Admin Puts Agentic AI on a Budget
The other major part of North 2 is governance. North Admin now lets organizations set roles and permissions, determine which models can be used by which users or agents, track activity in real time, and see token usage at both the user and agent level.
The platform includes flow controls that allow administrators to define consumption tiers based on request and token rates for users and groups. Teams can also use alerts and organization-wide caps to prevent usage from expanding beyond approved limits.
Agentic AI systems can be harder to budget than simple chatbot deployments. Agents may call models repeatedly, invoke tools, retrieve documents, or run multi-step workflows in the background. That can make usage harder to forecast unless administrators can inspect consumption by workflow, agent, user, and model.
North 2 also remains model-agnostic. Customers can use Cohere’s own models or bring other models into the platform, giving enterprises more flexibility over performance, cost, and deployment requirements.
Private, On-Prem, and Air-Gapped Deployments Remain Core to North
Cohere is positioning North 2 around enterprises with strict security, data residency, and sovereignty requirements. The platform can run in the cloud, inside a virtual private cloud, in hybrid environments, on-premises, or fully air-gapped.
That deployment flexibility is central, unlike agent platforms that are mainly tied to a single cloud environment or provider-operated model stack. Banks, governments, telecoms, and other regulated organizations may consider the location of the model and the data as important as the agent interface itself.
North 2 includes agent-level guardrails, autonomy policies that limit which actions agents can take, red-teaming, third-party vulnerability scanning, observability, and change logs. The company also highlighted SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications.
The upgrade adds enterprise connectors for Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion, and GitHub. Cohere also listed planned financial data connectors for PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global, and FactSet.
