An integration package connecting Cohere and LangChain
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Requires Python: >=3.9,<4.0
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- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Programming Language
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
Langchain-Cohere
This package contains the LangChain integrations for Cohere.
Cohere empowers every developer and enterprise to build amazing products and capture true business value with language AI.
Installation
- Install the
langchain-cohere
package:
pip install langchain-cohere
- Get a Cohere API key and set it as an environment variable (
COHERE_API_KEY
)
Migration from langchain-community
Cohere's integrations used to be part of the langchain-community
package, but since version 0.0.30 the integration in langchain-community
has been deprecated in favour langchain-cohere
.
The two steps to migrate are:
-
Import from langchain_cohere instead of langchain_community, for example:
from langchain_community.chat_models import ChatCohere
->from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere
from langchain_community.retrievers import CohereRagRetriever
->from langchain_cohere import CohereRagRetriever
from langchain.embeddings import CohereEmbeddings
->from langchain_cohere import CohereEmbeddings
from langchain.retrievers.document_compressors import CohereRerank
->from langchain_cohere import CohereRerank
-
The Cohere Python SDK version is now managed by this package and only v5+ is supported.
- There's no longer a need to specify cohere as a dependency in requirements.txt/pyproject.toml (etc.)
Supported LangChain Integrations
API | description | Endpoint docs | Import | Example usage |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chat | Build chat bots | chat | from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere |
notebook |
RAG Retriever | Connect to external data sources | chat + rag | from langchain_cohere import CohereRagRetriever |
notebook |
Text Embedding | Embed strings to vectors | embed | from langchain_cohere import CohereEmbeddings |
notebook |
Rerank Retriever | Rank strings based on relevance | rerank | from langchain_cohere import CohereRerank |
notebook |
ReAct Agent | Let the model choose a sequence of actions to take | chat + rag | from langchain_cohere.react_multi_hop.agent import create_cohere_react_agent |
notebook |
Usage Examples
Chat
from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere
from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage
llm = ChatCohere()
messages = [HumanMessage(content="Hello, can you introduce yourself?")]
print(llm.invoke(messages))
ReAct Agent
from langchain_community.tools.tavily_search import TavilySearchResults
from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere, create_cohere_react_agent
from langchain.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor
llm = ChatCohere()
internet_search = TavilySearchResults(max_results=4)
internet_search.name = "internet_search"
internet_search.description = "Route a user query to the internet"
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_template("{input}")
agent = create_cohere_react_agent(
llm,
[internet_search],
prompt
)
agent_executor = AgentExecutor(agent=agent, tools=[internet_search], verbose=True)
agent_executor.invoke({
"input": "In what year was the company that was founded as Sound of Music added to the S&P 500?",
})
RAG Retriever
from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere, CohereRagRetriever
rag = CohereRagRetriever(llm=ChatCohere())
print(rag.get_relevant_documents("Who are Cohere?"))
Text Embedding
from langchain_cohere import CohereEmbeddings
embeddings = CohereEmbeddings(model="embed-english-light-v3.0")
print(embeddings.embed_documents(["This is a test document."]))
Contributing
Contributions to this project are welcomed and appreciated. The LangChain contribution guide has instructions on how to setup a local environment and contribute pull requests.
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