---
title: "graphiti"
type: "tool"
slug: "getzep-graphiti"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/getzep-graphiti"
github_url: "https://github.com/getzep/graphiti"
homepage_url: "https://help.getzep.com/graphiti"
stars: 28463
forks: 2861
primary_language: "Python"
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["ai-agents", "model-training"]
tags: ["llms", "agents", "rag", "graph"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:22:02.523841+00:00"
---
# graphiti
> Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents
Graphiti is a framework for building and querying temporal context graphs for AI agents. These dynamic knowledge graphs track how facts change over time, maintain provenance to source data, and support both prescribed and learned ontology, making them purpose-built for agents operating on evolving real-world data.
## Facts
- Repository: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti
- Homepage: https://help.getzep.com/graphiti
- Stars: 28,463 · Forks: 2,861 · Open issues: 413 · Watchers: 161
- Primary language: Python
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-06T19:52:34+00:00
## Categories
- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)
- [Model Training](/categories/model-training.md)
## Tags
llms, agents, rag, graph
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## README (excerpt)
```text
Graphiti
Build Temporal Context Graphs for AI Agents
> [!NOTE]
> **We're Hiring!** Build context graphs that power reliable, personalized, fast production AI agents.
> Come build with us — we're hiring Engineers and Developer Relations folks. [View open roles](https://www.getzep.com/careers/).
⭐ *Help us reach more developers and grow the Graphiti community. Star this repo!*
> [!TIP]
> Check out the new [MCP server for Graphiti](mcp_server/README.md)! Give Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients powerful
> context graph-based memory with temporal awareness.
Graphiti is a framework for building and querying temporal context graphs for AI agents. Unlike static knowledge graphs,
Graphiti's context graphs track how facts change over time, maintain provenance to source data, and support both
prescribed and learned ontology — making them purpose-built for agents operating on evolving, real-world data.
Unlike traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods, Graphiti continuously integrates user interactions,
structured and unstructured enterprise data, and external information into a coherent, queryable graph. The framework
supports incremental data updates, efficient retrieval, and precise historical queries without requiring complete graph
recomputation, making it suitable for developing interactive, context-aware AI applications.
Use Graphiti to:
- Build context graphs that evolve with every interaction — tracking what's true now and what was true before.
- Give agents rich, structured context instead of flat document chunks or raw chat history.
- Query across time, meaning, and relationships with hybrid retrieval (semantic + keyword + graph traversal).
## What is a Context Graph?
A **context graph** is a temporal graph of entities, relationships, and facts — like *"Kendra loves Adidas shoes (as of
March 2026)."* Unlike traditional knowledge graphs, each fact in a context graph has a validity window: when it became
true, and when (if ever) it was superseded. Entities evolve over time with updated summaries. Everything traces back to
**episodes** — the raw data that produced it.
What makes Graphiti unique is its ability to autonomously build context graphs from unstructured and structured data,
handling changing relationships while preserving full temporal history.
A context graph contains:
| Component | What it stores |
|-----------|---------------|
| **Entities** (nodes) | People, products, policies, concepts — with summaries that evolve over time |
| **Facts / Relationships** (edges) | Triplets (Entity → Relationship → Entity) with temporal validity windows |
| **Episodes** (provenance) | Raw data as ingested — the ground truth stream. Every derived fact traces back here |
| **Custom Types** (ontology) | Developer-defined entity and edge types via Pydantic models |
## Graphiti and Zep
Graphiti is the open-source temporal context graph engine at the core of
[Zep's](https://www.getzep.com) context infrastructure for AI agents. Zep manages context graphs at scale, providing
governed, low-latency context retrieval and assembly for production agent deployments.
Using Graphiti, we've demonstrated Zep is
the [State of the Art in Agent Memory](https://blog.getzep.com/state-of-the-art-agent-memory/).
Read our paper: [Zep: A Temporal Knowl
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---
**Machine-readable endpoints**
- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/getzep-graphiti`](/api/graphcanon/tools/getzep-graphiti)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)
_GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_