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Ai Cohere Platform Laravel Package
symfony/ai-cohere-platform
Cohere platform bridge for Symfony AI, adding chat, embed, rerank, and audio transcription support through the official Cohere API. Links to Cohere reference docs and the main Symfony AI repo for contributing and issue reports.
Cohere Platform is a Symfony AI bridge that integrates the Cohere API into your Symfony applications, giving you a consistent interface for chat, embeddings, reranking, and audio transcription without writing provider-specific client code. It plugs into the Symfony AI component ecosystem so you can swap or combine providers through configuration.
- Chat completions via the Cohere Chat endpoint
- Text embeddings for semantic search and RAG pipelines
- Reranking to refine search results by relevance
- Audio transcription support for speech-to-text workflows
- Symfony-native integration with the AI component's unified contracts
Frequently asked questions about Ai Cohere Platform
- How do I install symfony/ai-cohere-platform in a Laravel application?
- Install it with Composer using composer require symfony/ai-cohere-platform, then bind the Cohere client or provider into Laravel's container yourself. The package is a Symfony AI bridge, so it does not ship a Laravel service provider, config file, or facade. Expect to create a small adapter layer that reads your Cohere API key from config and resolves the client as a singleton. Pin an exact minor version because the package is still pre-1.0.
- Does symfony/ai-cohere-platform support Laravel 10, 11, and 12?
- It should install on modern Laravel versions running PHP 8.2 or 8.3, because symfony/ai and symfony/http-client coexist with Laravel's Guzzle-based HTTP client. The package itself targets Symfony AI rather than a specific Laravel release, so Laravel compatibility depends on your PHP and dependency constraints. Test the install in your app's Composer resolution before committing, and pin versions. There is no first-party Laravel support matrix.
- Is there a Laravel service provider or facade for the Cohere bridge?
- No. The package is a Symfony AI platform bridge and does not include a Laravel service provider, publishable config, facade, or queue-aware job wrapper. You need to build those ergonomics yourself, typically as a thin adapter over the Symfony-native client. Keep that adapter small so it is cheap to replace if interfaces change before 1.0.
- What Cohere features does this bridge expose?
- It adapts Cohere's Chat, Embed, Rerank, and Audio Transcription endpoints to Symfony AI's provider and model-routing abstractions. That means you can use one consistent AI interface for conversational calls, vector embeddings, search reranking, and speech-to-text. The bridge is focused on those four capability families rather than covering every Cohere endpoint. Check the changelogs for any capability changes.
- Can I mix Cohere with OpenAI or Anthropic in the same Laravel app?
- Yes, that is the main architectural reason to adopt Symfony AI as your provider abstraction. The bridge maps Cohere into a common Provider interface with model routing, so you can run Cohere for rerank and embeddings while using OpenAI or Anthropic for chat. You can also swap providers when pricing or quality changes. Expect some Cohere-specific parameters to leak through, so keep an escape hatch for raw calls.
- How do I handle embeddings backfills and audio transcription without slowing requests?
- Queue those jobs from day one. Embeddings backfills and audio transcription are long-running and should never run inline in a web request. Use Laravel queues and wrap the bridge calls in jobs, with the adapter resolving the Cohere client from the container. Interactive chat can stay synchronous, but batch and transcription workloads belong on workers.
- Is symfony/ai-cohere-platform production-ready?
- Treat it as supplier code you vendor rather than a mature community package. It is pre-1.0 and has moved through several minor releases, so interface churn is a standing condition, not a one-time event. The release cadence means you should pin exact minor versions and budget time for upgrades. It can work in production if you keep the adapter thin, queue async work, and plan for interface moves before 1.0.
- How do I test code that calls the Cohere bridge in Laravel?
- Mock or fake at your adapter boundary rather than hitting Cohere in tests. Because the package has no Laravel-specific test helpers, wrap the Symfony AI client behind an interface you control and bind a fake implementation in the container. For integration tests, use a small set of recorded responses or a sandbox key. Keep contract tests around the adapter so version upgrades surface breaking changes early.
- What are the alternatives to symfony/ai-cohere-platform?
- You can call the official Cohere SDK or Cohere REST API directly, use Laravel's HTTP client, or adopt a different AI abstraction package. This bridge makes sense if you have already decided to standardize on symfony/ai as your provider abstraction and want Cohere as one provider among several. If you only need Cohere and want Laravel-native ergonomics, a thin custom client may be simpler. Weigh the pre-1.0 churn against the benefit of unified routing.
- How do errors and retries work with the Symfony AI Cohere bridge in Laravel?
- The bridge uses Symfony's HTTP client and API error handling, while Laravel typically uses Guzzle, so you end up with two HTTP stacks and two retry semantics. Standardize Cohere traffic on one client and instrument retries and errors at your adapter boundary, not inside the vendor client. Map Symfony API errors into Laravel's exception handler and report() so failures are visible. Also decide which calls are synchronous versus queued.
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