# Cookbooks ::::card-grid :::card{title="Cookbooks" href="/guides/cookbooks-cookbooks"} Explore a range of AI guides and get started with Cohere's generative platform, ready-made and best-practice optimized. ::: :::card{title="Building an LLM Agent with the Cohere API" href="/guides/cookbooks-agent-api-calls"} This page how to use Cohere's API to build an LLM-based agent. ::: :::card{title="Short-Term Memory Handling for Agents" href="/guides/cookbooks-agent-short-term-memory"} This page describes how to manage short-term memory in an agent built with Cohere models. ::: :::card{title="Agentic Multi-Stage RAG with Cohere Tools API" href="/guides/cookbooks-agentic-multi-stage-rag"} This page describes how to build a powerful, multi-stage agent with the Cohere platform. ::: :::card{title="Agentic RAG for PDFs with mixed data" href="/guides/cookbooks-agentic-rag-mixed-data"} This page describes building a powerful, multi-step chatbot with Cohere's models. ::: :::card{title="Analysis of Form 10-K/10-Q Using Cohere and RAG" href="/guides/cookbooks-analysis-of-financial-forms"} This page describes how to use Cohere's large language models to build an agent able to analyze financial forms like a 10-K or a 10-Q. ::: :::card{title="Analyzing Hacker News with Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-analyzing-hacker-news"} This page describes building a generative-AI powered tool to analyze headlines with Cohere. ::: :::card{title="Article Recommender via Embedding & Classification" href="/guides/cookbooks-article-recommender-with-text-embeddings"} This page describes how to build a generative-AI tool to recommend articles with Cohere. ::: :::card{title="Multi-Step Tool Use with Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-basic-multi-step"} This page describes how to create a multi-step, tool-using AI agent with Cohere's tool use functionality. ::: :::card{title="Basic RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-basic-rag"} This page describes how to work with Cohere's basic retrieval-augmented generation functionality. ::: :::card{title="Basic Semantic Search with Cohere Models" href="/guides/cookbooks-basic-semantic-search"} This page describes how to do basic semantic search with Cohere's models. ::: :::card{title="Getting Started with Basic Tool Use" href="/guides/cookbooks-basic-tool-use"} This page describes how to work with Cohere's basic tool use functionality. ::: :::card{title="Calendar Agent with Native Multi Step Tool" href="/guides/cookbooks-calendar-agent"} This page describes how to use cohere Chat API with list\_calendar\_events and create\_calendar\_event tools to book appointments. ::: :::card{title="Effective Chunking Strategies for RAG" href="/guides/cookbooks-chunking-strategies"} This page describes various chunking strategies you can use to get better RAG performance. ::: :::card{title="Creating a QA Bot From Technical Documentation" href="/guides/cookbooks-creating-a-qa-bot"} This page describes how to use Cohere to build a simple question-answering system. ::: :::card{title="Financial CSV Agent with Native Multi-Step Cohere API" href="/guides/cookbooks-csv-agent-native-api"} This page describes how to use Cohere's models and its native API to build an agent able to work with CSV data. ::: :::card{title="Financial CSV Agent with Langchain" href="/guides/cookbooks-csv-agent"} This page describes how to use Cohere's models to build an agent able to work with CSV data. ::: :::card{title="Migrating away from create_csv_agent in langchain-cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-migrate-csv-agent"} This page contains a tutorial on how to build a CSV agent without the deprecated create\_csv\_agent abstraction in langchain-cohere v0.3.5 and beyond. ::: :::card{title="A Data Analyst Agent Built with Cohere and Langchain" href="/guides/cookbooks-data-analyst-agent"} This page describes how to build a data-analysis system out of Cohere's models. ::: :::card{title="Advanced Document Parsing For Enterprises" href="/guides/cookbooks-document-parsing-for-enterprises"} This page describes how to use Cohere's models to build a document-parsing agent. ::: :::card{title="End-to-end RAG using Elasticsearch and Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-elasticsearch-and-cohere"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to get Cohere and ElasticSearch to work well together. ::: :::card{title="Serverless Semantic Search with Cohere and Pinecone" href="/guides/cookbooks-embed-jobs-serverless-pinecone"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to get Cohere and the Pinecone vector database to work well together. ::: :::card{title="Semantic Search with Cohere Embed Jobs" href="/guides/cookbooks-embed-jobs"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to use Cohere's Embed Jobs functionality. ::: :::card{title="Fueling Generative Content with Keyword Research" href="/guides/cookbooks-fueling-generative-content"} This page contains a basic workflow for using Cohere's models to come up with keyword content ideas. ::: :::card{title="Grounded Summarization Using Command R" href="/guides/cookbooks-grounded-summarization"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to do grounded summarization with Cohere's models. ::: :::card{title="Hello World! Explore Language AI with Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-hello-world-meet-ai"} This page contains a breakdown of some of what can be achieved with Cohere's LLM platform. ::: :::card{title="Long-Form Text Strategies with Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-long-form-general-strategies"} This discusses ways of getting Cohere's LLM platform to perform well in generating long-form text. ::: :::card{title="Migrating Monolithic Prompts to Command A with RAG" href="/guides/cookbooks-migrating-prompts"} This page contains a discussion of how to automatically migrating monolothic prompts. ::: :::card{title="Multilingual Search with Cohere and Langchain" href="/guides/cookbooks-multilingual-search"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to do search across different languages with Cohere's LLM platform. ::: :::card{title="PDF Extractor with Native Multi Step Tool Use" href="/guides/cookbooks-pdf-extractor"} This page describes how to create an AI agent able to extract information from PDFs. ::: :::card{title="Pondr, Fostering Connection through Good Conversation" href="/guides/cookbooks-pondr"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how tplay an AI-powered version of the icebreaking game 'Pondr'. ::: :::card{title="Deep Dive Into Evaluating RAG Outputs" href="/guides/cookbooks-rag-evaluation-deep-dive"} This page contains information on evaluating the output of RAG systems. ::: :::card{title="RAG With Chat Embed and Rerank via Pinecone" href="/guides/cookbooks-rag-with-chat-embed"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how to build a RAG-powered chatbot. ::: :::card{title="Learn How Cohere's Rerank Models Work" href="/guides/cookbooks-rerank-demo"} This page contains a basic tutorial on how Cohere's ReRank models work and how to use them. ::: :::card{title="Build a SQL Agent with Cohere's LLM Platform" href="/guides/cookbooks-sql-agent"} This page contains a tutorial on how to build a SQL agent with Cohere's LLM platform. ::: :::card{title="Evaluating Text Summarization Models" href="/guides/cookbooks-summarization-evals"} This page discusses how to evaluate a model's text summarization. ::: :::card{title="Text Classification Using Embeddings" href="/guides/cookbooks-text-classification-using-embeddings"} This page discusses the creation of a text classification model using word vector embeddings. ::: :::card{title="Topic Modeling System for AI Papers" href="/guides/cookbooks-topic-modeling-ai-papers"} This page discusses how to create a topic-modeling system for papers focused on AI papers. ::: :::card{title="Wikipedia Semantic Search with Cohere + Weaviate" href="/guides/cookbooks-wikipedia-search-with-weaviate"} This page contains a description of building a Wikipedia-focused search engine with Cohere's LLM platform and the Weaviate vector database. ::: :::card{title="Wikipedia Semantic Search with Cohere Embedding Archives" href="/guides/cookbooks-wikipedia-semantic-search"} This page contains a description of building a Wikipedia-focused semantic search engine with Cohere's LLM platform and the Weaviate vector database. ::: :::card{title="Build Chatbots with MongoDB and Cohere" href="/guides/cookbooks-rag-cohere-mongodb"} This page describes how to build a chatbot that provides actionable insights on technology company market reports. ::: :::card{title="Finetuning on Cohere's Platform" href="/guides/cookbooks-convfinqa-finetuning-wandb"} An example of finetuning using Cohere's platform and a financial dataset. ::: :::card{title="Deploy your finetuned model on AWS Marketplace" href="/guides/cookbooks-deploy-finetuned-model-aws-marketplace"} Learn how to deploy your finetuned model on AWS Marketplace. ::: :::card{title="Finetuning Cohere Models on AWS Sagemaker" href="/guides/cookbooks-finetune-on-sagemaker"} Learn how to finetune one of Cohere's models on AWS Sagemaker. ::: :::card{title="SQL Agent with Cohere and LangChain (i-5O Case Study)" href="/guides/cookbooks-sql-agent-cohere-langchain"} This page contains a tutorial on how to build a SQL agent with Cohere and LangChain in the manufacturing industry. ::: :::card{title="Introduction to Aya Vision" href="/guides/cookbooks-aya-vision-intro"} In this notebook, we will explore the capabilities of Aya Vision, which can take text and image inputs to generates text responses. ::: :::card{title="Retrieval evaluation using LLM-as-a-judge via Pydantic AI" href="/guides/cookbooks-retrieval-eval-pydantic-ai"} This page contains a tutorial on how to evaluate retrieval systems using LLMs as judges via Pydantic AI. ::: :::card{title="Document Translation with Command A Translate" href="/guides/cookbooks-command-a-translate"} This page describes how to use Command A Translate for automated translation across 23 languages with industry-leading performance. ::: :::: ## Related pages - 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