---
title: "cognee"
type: "tool"
slug: "topoteretes-cognee"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/topoteretes-cognee"
github_url: "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee"
homepage_url: "https://www.cognee.ai"
stars: 27309
forks: 2542
primary_language: "Python"
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["ai-agents"]
tags: ["agent-skills", "cognitive-architecture", "memory-management", "ai-memory", "knowledge-graph", "context-engineering", "ai-agents", "agent-memory"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T19:46:40.341873+00:00"
---

# cognee

> Open-Source AI Memory Platform

Cognee provides persistent long-term memory for AI agents by ingesting data of any format and building a self-hosted knowledge graph.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee
- Homepage: https://www.cognee.ai
- Stars: 27,309 · Forks: 2,542 · Open issues: 628 · Watchers: 79
- Primary language: Python
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-07T17:28:13+00:00

## Categories

- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)

## Tags

agent-skills, cognitive-architecture, memory-management, ai-memory, knowledge-graph, context-engineering, ai-agents, agent-memory

## Related tools

- [ECC](/tools/affaan-m-ecc.md) - The agent harness performance optimization system (★ 226,991)
- [hermes-agent](/tools/nousresearch-hermes-agent.md) - The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research (★ 210,911)
- [AutoGPT](/tools/significant-gravitas-autogpt.md) - AutoGPT: Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agents (★ 185,420)
- [ollama](/tools/ollama-ollama.md) - Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. (★ 175,664)
- [langflow](/tools/langflow-ai-langflow.md) - Langflow is a powerful platform for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. (★ 151,311)
- [dify](/tools/langgenius-dify.md) - Production-ready platform for agentic workflow development (★ 148,074)
- [firecrawl](/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl.md) - The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. (★ 147,150)
- [langchain](/tools/langchain-ai-langchain.md) - The agent engineering platform. (★ 141,215)

## README (excerpt)

```text
<div align="center">
  <a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee">
    <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/topoteretes/cognee/refs/heads/dev/assets/cognee-logo-transparent.png" alt="Cognee Logo" height="60">
  </a>

  <br />

  Cognee - The Open-Source AI Memory Platform for Agents

  <p align="center">
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hmqS2Y5RVQ&t=13s">Demo</a>
  .
  <a href="https://docs.cognee.ai/">Docs</a>
  .
  <a href="https://cognee.ai">Learn More</a>
  ·
  <a href="https://discord.gg/NQPKmU5CCg">Join Discord</a>
  ·
  <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AIMemory/">Join r/AIMemory</a>
  .
  <a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee-community">Community Plugins & Add-ons</a>
  </p>


  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/topoteretes"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Sponsor-❤️-ff69b4.svg" alt="Sponsor"></a>

<p>
  <a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/13955" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;">
    <img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/repositories/13955" alt="topoteretes%2Fcognee | Trendshift" width="250" height="55" />
  </a>
</p>

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform that gives AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions. Ingest data in any format, build a self-hosted knowledge graph, and let every agent recall, connect, and act with full context

  <p align="center">
  🌐 This README is also available in:
  :
  
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=de">Deutsch</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=es">Español</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=fr">Français</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=ja">日本語</a> |
  <a href="README_ko.md">한국어</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=pt">Português</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=ru">Русский</a> |
  <a href="https://www.readme-i18n.com/topoteretes/cognee?lang=zh">中文</a>
  </p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/cognee-demo.gif" alt="Cognee Demo" width="80%" />
</p>
</div>

📄 Read the research paper: [Optimizing the Interface Between Knowledge Graphs and LLMs for Complex Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24478) — Markovic et al., 2025


## About Cognee

Cognee is an open-source AI memory platform for AI Agents. Ingest data in any format, and Cognee continuously builds a self-hosted knowledge graph that gives your agents persistent long-term memory across sessions. Cognee combines vector embeddings, graph reasoning, and cognitive-science-grounded ontology generation to make documents both searchable by meaning and connected by relationships that evolve as your knowledge does.

:star: _Help us reach more developers and grow the cognee community. Star this repo!_

:books: _Check our detailed [documentation](https://docs.cognee.ai/getting-started/installation#environment-configuration) for setup and configuration._

:crab: _Available as a plugin for your OpenClaw — [cognee-openclaw](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cognee/cognee-openclaw)_

✴️ _Available as a plugin for your Claude Code — [claude-code-plugin](https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee-integrations/tree/main/integrations/claude-code)_

🦀 _Available as a Rust client — [cognee-rs](https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee-rs)_

🟦 _Available as a TypeScript client — [@cognee/cognee-ts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cognee/cognee-ts)_



### Why use Cognee:

- Easily Build Company Brain - unify data from various sources in one place and enable Agents with your domain knowledge
- Knowledge infrastructure — unified ingestion, graph/vector search, runs locally, ontology grounding, multimodal
- Persistent and Learning Agents - learn from feedback, context management, cross-agent knowledge sharing
- Reliable and Trustworthy Agents - agentic user/tenant isolation, traceability, OTEL collector, audit traits

### How it Works

<p align="center">
  <im
```

---

**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/topoteretes-cognee`](/api/graphcanon/tools/topoteretes-cognee)
- 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/_