cognee

Name: cognee Review
Item: cognee
Rating: 3.8
Author: Aaron Matthews

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Persistent agent memory reduces redundant context re-learning and enables multi-session workflows, lowering latency and compute costs while improving decisio…

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.

Build AI agents that remember past conversations and decisions across multiple sessions
Store and query your agent's accumulated knowledge in a self-hosted knowledge graph database
Enable agents to learn from historical interactions without retraining the underlying model

30,096 starsApache-2.0 (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Why it matters

Persistent agent memory reduces redundant context re-learning and enables multi-session workflows, lowering latency and compute costs while improving decision consistency across long-running operations.

Best for

Teams building autonomous agents requiring stateful reasoning and institutional knowledge retention across multiple interactions.

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Source

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee

By topoteretes

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Instructions to paste into Claude

/plugin marketplace add topoteretes/cognee-integrations
/plugin install cognee-memory@cognee

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me build AI agents that remember past conversations and decisions across multiple sessions

PrerequisitesCognee Cloud account or self-hosted Cognee instance — set COGNEE_BASE_URL and COGNEE_API_KEY environment variables (or run a local Cognee runtime).CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars30,096Contributors279Last updated2026-08-18LicenseApache-2.0 (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-08-18 · scanner vattempted-no-data

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Discussed on Hacker News

Show HN: Cognee – Open-Source AI Memory Layer That Remembers Context — Hacker News · 9 pts
Show HN: Auto-optimizing deterministic LLM outputs using knowledge graphs — Hacker News · 7 pts
Show HN: Cognee – Turn RAG and GraphRAG into custom dynamic semantic memory — Hacker News · 6 pts

3 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 17,906 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license Apache-2.0.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

4/5

Versatility

5/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score3.85 / 5.00 SolidEvaluatedJun 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 17,906 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license Apache-2.0.

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