Cohere Enterprise Access Control
Overview
Use Cohere's documented Team roles for platform administration while enforcing fine-grained workload authorization in the application and secret manager.
Prerequisites
- The target repository, runtime, environment, and accountable owner
- An approved Cohere team and key for any live verification
- Current quality, security, privacy, capacity, and change-control requirements
Tool Discipline
Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect code, configuration, and evidence. Use WebFetch only for current Cohere primary documentation. Use Write or Edit only when the user requested implementation and the exact target files are known; never write credentials or customer content.
Current Contract
- Cohere Teams document Owner and User roles; Owners have additional membership, production-key, billing, and production-form powers.
- Team users can still have broad key and usage capabilities, so provider roles alone are not application RBAC.
- Separate human administration from runtime service identities and environment-specific credentials.
- Enforce tenant, model, endpoint, tool, and budget policy before provider calls.
Authentication
Use an environment-specific key injected from an approved secret manager. Never print, persist, commit, or place CO_API_KEY in an example. Confirm access with the least costly bounded operation appropriate to the task, and treat key creation, rotation, revocation, role changes, and production-capacity requests as owner-approved actions.
Instructions
- Inventory Cohere teams, members, roles, keys, environments, service identities, and billing owners.
- Map Owner and User capabilities to least-privilege job functions and separation-of-duties requirements.
- Move runtime keys into approved secret stores and bind retrieval to named workloads.
- Implement application authorization for tenant data, allowed models, endpoints, tools, and spend.
- Review membership, keys, usage, invoices, and access evidence on a fixed cadence.
- Test member removal, key rotation, service revocation, tenant denial, and emergency access.
Approval Boundaries
Do not expose or rotate keys, change Cohere Team roles, accept commercial terms, enable sensitive production data, increase spend or capacity, switch production models, send a support bundle, or execute model-proposed side effects without the accountable owner's approval. Keep diagnosis read-only unless implementation was requested.
Output
Return the resolved API and model contract, files or settings inspected, evidence collected, validation result, remaining risk, owner, and rollback or next action. Redact keys, authorization headers, prompts, retrieved documents, embeddings, customer identifiers, and unrestricted environment output.
Error Handling
| Condition | Response |
|---|---|
| Orphaned owner | Assign an accountable owner before changing production access. |
| Shared human key | Replace it with workload-owned environment credentials. |
| Role too broad | Compensate with secret-manager and application policy or escalate. |
| Former member | Remove access and rotate credentials they could retrieve. |
Examples
Use this compact handoff shape to keep the selected scope, validation evidence, and operational result reviewable.
Input:
team=platform-ai; environments=staging,prod; tenants=multi; review=quarterly
Expected handoff:
roles=mapped; keys=workload-owned; app-rbac=enforced; review=evidenced