cognee-permissions SKILL.md skillA
cognee-permissions from topoteretes/cognee is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- topoteretes/cognee
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.agents/skills/cognee-permissions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261002.71b5218, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
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- 14,247 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when working with cognee's users, permissions, and multi-tenancy — creating users, tenants and roles, sharing datasets (read/write/delete/share grants), acting as a specific user in the SDK or authenticating over HTTP (login, API keys), turning access control on or off, debugging PermissionDeniedError or missing datasets, or understanding where permissions are enforced and how datasets are isolated.
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What the file says
# Users, permissions, and multi-tenancy
Every dataset belongs to an owner, and every operation on it is checked
against a **grant**: a principal (user, role, or tenant) holding a
permission (`read`, `write`, `delete`, `share`) on a dataset. With access
control on (the default), each user+dataset pair also gets its own graph and
vector databases.
## Use it
### Act as a user in the SDK
Without `user=`, SDK calls run as the default user
(`default_user@example.com`, or `DEFAULT_USER_EMAIL`). To act as someone
else, create or load them and pass `user=`:
```python
import cognee
from cognee.modules.users.methods import create_user, get_user
alice = await create_user("alice@example.com", "password")
bob = await create_user("bob@example.com", "password")
res = await cognee.remember("Alice's notes", dataset_name="alice_notes", user=alice)
await cognee.recall("What are the notes about?", user=alice, datasets=["alice_notes"])
```
`remember`, `recall`, `search`, `forget`, `improve` and the dataset helpers
all take `user=`.
### Share a dataset
The caller must hold `share` on the dataset. Share **by dataset id**:
```python
from uuid import UUID
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How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-permissions@sha256:b845e039fd1e073fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.71b5218, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
topoteretes/cognee · 33,092 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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