Why Cohere Matters for Developer Relations
Developers ask Cohere how to do things before they open your docs, and it answers from the documents and search sources each deploying company connects. If your documentation is not reachable or not quotable, Cohere explains a competitor's API instead. For DevRel, that makes docs access and structure part of adoption, not just support.
The Cohere Mistake to Avoid
Writing robots.txt rules for a Cohere crawler. Cohere documents none, so those rules change nothing; what Cohere can use comes from the documents and search sources each deploying company connects.
Action Items for Developer Relations
Apply the same rule to your docs subdomain: Keep pages crawlable by standard search bots (Cohere documents no crawler of its own)
Test Cohere through its API on your top five tasks and check the code it returns
Give each task page a short, correct code example near the top
Keep versioned docs clear about which version is current
Report recurring wrong answers from Cohere to the docs team
What Developer Relations Should Track in Cohere
Accuracy of Cohere's answers for your top tasks
Docs pages Cohere cites or quotes
Outdated API versions Cohere still suggests
Developer sign-ups that mention an AI assistant
Frequently Asked Questions
How can DevRel get Cohere to reference our docs?
Make the docs reachable, then make each task page answer one task with a correct example near the top. Cohere can only quote what reaches it through the documents and search sources each deploying company connects.
Why does Cohere suggest an old version of our API?
Older docs, blog posts or forum answers are still public and compete with current pages. Label the current version clearly, redirect or mark retired pages, and put the current example first.
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