Cognee
Memory and knowledge graph engine for AI agents
Cognee is an open-source framework that builds dynamic knowledge graphs to give AI agents persistent memory. It ingests documents and conversations and can run fully self-hosted with local vector and graph stores.
Key features
- Knowledge graph memory
- Document ingestion pipeline
- Pluggable vector stores
- Agent memory layer
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 29.9k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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