Cohere Adds Memory and Company-Wide Usage Caps to North 2 AI Agents

Cohere is giving enterprise AI agents more continuity—and administrators more ways to contain them. Introduced on October 5, 2026, North 2 adds persistent memory, reusable workflows and company-wide usage caps. But the promise of more manageable automation arrives without performance benchmarks or published standard pricing, according to VentureBeat.

Limits before the bill arrives

North Admin, the platform’s management console, tracks activity and token consumption down to individual users and agents. Administrators can set quotas, request and token-rate limits, and caps across the organization. Alerts warn teams before those limits apply.

The console also sets roles, permissions and which models different employees can use. It integrates with existing identity and access management systems. Paul Teyssier, Cohere’s vice president of Product AI, told VentureBeat that usage can be separated by model, user and department, then exported into customers’ analytics systems.

Cohere says agent-level guardrails scan prompts and responses for personally identifiable information and detect prompt injection, attempts to redirect an agent through malicious instructions. Autonomy policies restrict agents to authorized actions and send critical decisions to a person.

We only turned those workflows on once we could see and control what the agents were doing,

Jacob Rideout, HiddenLayer CTO, in a statement supplied by Cohere to VentureBeat

Context and workflows become shared assets

North 2’s redesigned orchestration system—the software that coordinates an agent’s work—handles complex, multistep processes and brings people in for designated decisions. Employees can build agents and automations from simple prompts, then share them across the organization rather than rebuild the same workflow.

• Memory preserves context between sessions. Teyssier said it also extends continuity across sub-sessions and agents, without specifying how much longer context persists.
• Skills package reusable capabilities that agents can call, so employees do not have to recreate the same logic.
• Libraries hold shared organizational knowledge and assets that employees can draw on.

The update also generates slide decks, dashboards and lightweight apps from plain-language requests, SiliconANGLE reported. Recurring processes get prebuilt templates and a drag-and-drop workflow builder with real-time performance reporting. The connector library includes Slack, GitHub, SharePoint and OneDrive; connections to PitchBook, S&P Global and FactSet are planned, not confirmed as shipping.

Model choice, private hosting and an unpriced deployment

North can run Cohere’s models or models a customer already uses. Teyssier said its model, orchestration, search and embedding components are interchangeable, a design Cohere positions as reducing vendor lock-in. Deployment options include the cloud, on-premises infrastructure, a customer’s virtual private cloud and fully air-gapped installations with no outside connection.

Existing North users include Bell Cyber, which uses it in security operations, and LG CNS, which runs it internally and offers it to customers in South Korea. These are examples of the platform’s use, rather than measured results for the new release.

Cohere says pricing depends on deployment scale and complexity, including infrastructure, usage, support and customization. Teyssier said application releases are harder to benchmark than models and that Cohere is working on shareable data. For now, North 2’s controls are specified more clearly than its measurable performance or total deployment cost.