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

About the project

Cognee is an AI memory platform that stores information in a self-hosted knowledge graph so agents can retain context across sessions. It ingests data, connects related information, and helps agents retrieve it for reasoning and actions. The catalogue includes skills and instructions that extend agent workflows around Cognee.

Latest release v1.6.6 — v1.6.6 — Conflict resolution & stability · 29 Oct 2026

28 files for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot: cognee-cli, cognee-community, cognee-docker, cognee-install and 24 more — 30,810 tokens loaded in every session.

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Instructions

cognee AGENTS.md AGENTS.md A 2,857 tok
cognee CLAUDE.md CLAUDE.md A 27,953 tok

Settings

cognee .claude/settings.json A —

Hooks

SessionStart .claude/settings.json A —

Skills

cognee-cli .agents/skills/cognee-cli/SKILL.md A 42 tok
cognee-community .agents/skills/cognee-community/SKILL.md A 106 tok
cognee-docker .agents/skills/cognee-docker/SKILL.md A 60 tok
cognee-install .agents/skills/cognee-install/SKILL.md A 42 tok
cognee-integrations .agents/skills/cognee-integrations/SKILL.md A 72 tok
cognee-permissions .agents/skills/cognee-permissions/SKILL.md A 84 tok
cognee-server .agents/skills/cognee-server/SKILL.md A 50 tok
cognee-custom-graph-models .agents/skills/cognee-custom-graph-models/SKILL.md A 74 tok
cognee-custom-pipelines .agents/skills/cognee-custom-pipelines/SKILL.md A 88 tok
cognee-forget .agents/skills/cognee-forget/SKILL.md A 70 tok
cognee-improve-sessions .agents/skills/cognee-improve-sessions/SKILL.md A 65 tok
cognee-ingestion .agents/skills/cognee-ingestion/SKILL.md A 72 tok
cognee-migrations .agents/skills/cognee-migrations/SKILL.md A 82 tok
cognee-performance .agents/skills/cognee-performance/SKILL.md A 70 tok
cognee-recall .agents/skills/cognee-recall/SKILL.md A 59 tok
company-brain-company-qa .agents/skills/company-brain-company-qa/SKILL.md A 87 tok
company-brain-follow-up-agent .agents/skills/company-brain-follow-up-agent/SKILL.md A 88 tok
personalized-email .agents/skills/personalized-email/SKILL.md A 72 tok
self-hosted-companion .agents/skills/self-hosted-companion/SKILL.md A 85 tok
google-workspace-memory .agents/skills/google-workspace-memory/SKILL.md A 87 tok
multiagent-memory-setup .agents/skills/multiagent-memory-setup/SKILL.md A 110 tok

Commands

docs_edit .github/prompts/docs_edit.md A —
docs_scope_plan .github/prompts/docs_scope_plan.md A —
docs_issue_edit .github/prompts/docs_issue_edit.md A —

These files are topoteretes/cognee's own configuration — they tell Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.