The Advanced Light Source (ALS) has recently commissioned a new beamline for coherent scattering and microscopy with soft x-rays. Called COSMIC, the beamline has two branches: one dedicated to coherent imaging with soft x-rays in the energy range of 250 to 2500 eV and the other dedicated to coherent scattering in the x-ray energy range 250 to 1700 eV [1, 2]. The beamline optical design is intended to maximize coherent flux for brightness limited experiments, such as scanning microscopy, while also providing energy resolution suitable for near-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Thus the scope of the beamline performance is well suited to the study of chemical, magnetic and morphological phases of nanomaterials.