topoteretes/cognee
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory with small models for free
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SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 301 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #10 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 15, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a self-hosted AI memory platform that enables persistent long-term memory for AI agents using a knowledge graph engine.
- Replaces traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems with scalable, modular pipelines that integrate graph and vector databases for improved memory management.
- Use for building AI agents that require persistent context and memory across multiple sessions to enhance interaction quality.
- Use for developers needing customizable data ingestion pipelines from diverse sources to create dynamic knowledge graphs for AI applications.
- Use for teams seeking an open-source, Python-based solution to implement cognitive architectures with integrated memory and search capabilities.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
cognee - Memory for AI Agents in 6 lines of code
Build dynamic memory for Agents and replace RAG using scalable, modular ECL (Extract, Cognify, Load) pipelines.
Get started quickly with a Google Colab notebook , Deepnote notebook or starter repo
Daily snapshots
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+3,065 stars over 83 days across 15 snapshot days; best day +113 on Oct 6.
Forks
3.4K+545
Open issues
1.1K+696
Compared with peers in AI
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| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 115.8K | +4.7K | 75 | today |
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 82.3K | +4.0K | 75 | today |
| harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo | 142.0K | +3.8K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| github/spec-kit | 149.2K | +2.6K | 75 | today |
| topoteretes/cognee | 33.0K | — | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 115.8K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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