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Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

by topoteretes · GitHub
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Give AI agents the ability to remember information across different sessions using a self-hosted knowledge graph.

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uv pip install cognee
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Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

cognee has 30.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3k times. cognee is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. cognee is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are agent-memory, agent-skills, ai, ai-agents.

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What is cognee?

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

Is cognee open source?

cognee is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is cognee free?

Yes. cognee is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does cognee use?

cognee is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is cognee written in?

cognee is written mainly in Python.

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