Overview
North-Mini-Code-1.0 is CohereLabs' first model built for developers, and it targets agentic software engineering rather than general chat.
- License: Apache 2.0
- Context length: 488K tokens
- Languages: Multilingual
- Minimum hardware: ~18 GB VRAM
- Strengths: reasoning, coding and on-device inference
Highlights
- Agentic software engineering — post-trained on real SE and terminal tasks, not general chat.
- Native tool use — interleaved thinking with function calls to plan, act, and re-plan.
- Repository-scale context — a very long window keeps many files and a full trajectory in view.
- cohere2moe architecture — 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts served on vLLM and SGLang.
What it is good at
North-Mini-Code-1.0 was post-trained on real software engineering and terminal tasks, with native tool use and interleaved thinking. That shapes what it does well:
- Agentic coding — it plans, edits files, and runs terminal commands across long task sequences, which suits it to coding agents like OpenCode rather than one-shot snippet generation.
- Tool calling and reasoning — built-in
tool_callingandthinkinglet it decide when to call a function, read the result, and reason through the next step instead of guessing in one pass. - Repository-scale work — the long context window keeps many files and a full agent trajectory in view at once, so it can trace a bug across modules or refactor against the whole codebase.
Running it locally
The model is 30.5B parameters with a context length of 500,000 tokens. The full-precision weights want a single H100 80GB (FP8) or 2x A100 40GB (BF16), but the community has published quantized builds: Unsloth GGUFs range from roughly 9GB up to full BF16, so smaller machines can load a lower-bit quant. Download the official weights with:
huggingface-cli download CohereLabs/North-Mini-Code-1.0
For serving, vLLM and SGLang support the cohere2moe architecture today; llama.cpp and Ollama need a build that includes the 128-expert support. In Atomic Chat you pick the quant that fits your VRAM and load it with one click, then chat or wire it into a coding agent locally.
License
North-Mini-Code-1.0 is released under the apache-2.0 license. That permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution, with patent protection and only an attribution requirement. Cohere also asks users to follow its Acceptable Use Policy alongside the license.