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Claim: If a category is Cauchy complete and is essentially finite, then it has filtered colimits and has filtered-colimit-stable monomorphisms.

Proof: We may assume that the category $\C$ is finite and Cauchy complete. The answer at MO/509853 shows that every filtered colimit in $\C$ exists, in fact it is a retract of one of the objects in the diagram. Now apply this to the morphism category of $\C$. It follows that for every filtered diagram of morphisms $X_i \to Y_i$ their colimit $X_\infty \to Y_\infty$ exists, which is a retract of one of the $X_i \to Y_i$. Therefore, if every $X_i \to Y_i$ is a monomorphism, also $X_\infty \to Y_\infty$ is a monomorphism.