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Cora has a small set of nouns that show up everywhere. Learn them here, then follow the links for the how-tos.

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Key concepts

Signal. Something Cora detects: a lifecycle event across your connected tools, such as a renewal risk, a stakeholder change, or an expansion opportunity. Signals live on the Signals page. A signal can start an agent. See Setting Up Signals. Agent. A reusable workflow you save so the same work can run again. An agent has a trigger (manual, scheduled, or a signal), tasks, and an autonomy level. You build and refine agents in chat, then turn them on from the Agents page. Trigger types and autonomy levels are covered in Understanding Agents. Agent run. One execution of an agent. Each time an agent fires (on a schedule, from a signal, or when you start it), Cora creates a run. Review what happened from the Agents page. Task. One step inside an agent. A simple agent might have a single task, such as querying data and posting to Slack. A more complex agent chains tasks: gather data, send an email, then follow up if the customer replies. Skill. Reusable instructions that tell Cora what to do: the steps, the format, and the tone. An agent controls when and how often something runs. A skill is the recipe; an agent can run that skill on a schedule. See How to Build Skills. Artifact. A saved deliverable on an account or the workspace: a document, dashboard, presentation, survey, checklist, file, or link. Agents and chat create them. You open them on the Artifacts page. See Artifacts.

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How they connect

You connect integrations. Cora watches them and raises signals when something notable happens on an account. A skill is reusable instructions: what to do. An agent is a saved workflow with a trigger and the rest of the config. An agent can also run a skill. Inside an agent, each step is a task. Each time an agent fires, that is an agent run. Most agents still fire from a signal or a schedule. Artifacts are the saved outputs from agents and skills: documents, dashboards, presentations, surveys, and similar deliverables. They live on the Artifacts page. The run is the execution; the artifact is what you keep. Chat or Slack can run a skill, start an agent, or write an artifact. These show up next to the concepts above. Each page is the how-to.
  • Action. A unit of work Cora counts toward usage, such as sending a message or generating an artifact. See Actions and Usage.
  • Custom column. A column you add to the Accounts table to surface CRM fields, scores, or AI insights. See Custom Columns.