cognee - memory layer for AI apps and Agents

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AI Agent responses you can rely on.

Build dynamic Agent memory using scalable, modular ECL (Extract, Cognify, Load) pipelines.

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Features

• Interconnect and retrieve your past conversations, documents, images and audio transcriptions
• Reduce hallucinations, developer effort, and cost.
• Load data to graph and vector databases using only Pydantic
• Manipulate your data while ingesting from 30+ data sources

Get Started

Get started quickly with a Google Colab notebook or starter repo

Contributing

Your contributions are at the core of making this a true open source project. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

📦 Installation

You can install Cognee using either pip, poetry, uv or any other python package manager.

With pip

pip install cognee

💻 Basic Usage

Setup

import os
os.environ["LLM_API_KEY"] = "YOUR OPENAI_API_KEY"

You can also set the variables by creating .env file, using our template. To use different LLM providers, for more info check out our documentation

Simple example

Add LLM_API_KEY to .env using the command bellow.

echo "LLM_API_KEY=YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY" > .env

You can see available env variables in the repository .env.template file.

This script will run the default pipeline:

import cognee
import asyncio
from cognee.modules.search.types import SearchType

async def main():
    # Create a clean slate for cognee -- reset data and system state
    await cognee.prune.prune_data()
    await cognee.prune.prune_system(metadata=True)
    # cognee knowledge graph will be created based on this text
    text = """
    Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary
    subfield of computer science and information retrieval.
    """

    print("Adding text to cognee:")
    print(text.strip())
    # Add the text, and make it available for cognify
    await cognee.add(text)

    # Use LLMs and cognee to create knowledge graph
    await cognee.cognify()
    print("Cognify process complete.\n")


    query_text = "Tell me about NLP"
    print(f"Searching cognee for insights with query: '{query_text}'")
    # Query cognee for insights on the added text
    search_results = await cognee.search(
        query_text=query_text, query_type=SearchType.INSIGHTS
    )

    print("Search results:")
    # Display results
    for result_text in search_results:
        print(result_text)

    # Example output:
       # ({'id': UUID('bc338a39-64d6-549a-acec-da60846dd90d'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 1, 211808, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'name': 'natural language processing', 'description': 'An interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and information retrieval.'}, {'relationship_name': 'is_a_subfield_of', 'source_node_id': UUID('bc338a39-64d6-549a-acec-da60846dd90d'), 'target_node_id': UUID('6218dbab-eb6a-5759-a864-b3419755ffe0'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 15, 473137, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)}, {'id': UUID('6218dbab-eb6a-5759-a864-b3419755ffe0'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 1, 211808, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'name': 'computer science', 'description': 'The study of computation and information processing.'})
       # (...)
        #
        # It represents nodes and relationships in the knowledge graph:
        # - The first element is the source node (e.g., 'natural language processing').
        # - The second element is the relationship between nodes (e.g., 'is_a_subfield_of').
        # - The third element is the target node (e.g., 'computer science').

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

For more advanced usage, have a look at our documentation.

Understand our architecture

Demos

What is AI memory:

cognee_ai_memory.mp4

Code of Conduct

We are committed to making open source an enjoyable and respectful experience for our community. See CODE_OF_CONDUCT for more information.

💫 Contributors

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