cognee-install SKILL.md skillA
cognee-install from topoteretes/cognee is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-install@git:20261015.8971ebePins git:20261015.8971ebe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- topoteretes/cognee
- Path
.agents/skills/cognee-install/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261015.8971ebe, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 4,028 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user wants to install cognee and run their first remember → recall flow with the Python SDK — fresh setup, virtual env, extras selection, or a minimal working example.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Install and run cognee ## Install Requires Python 3.10–3.14. Prefer uv: ```bash uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate uv pip install cognee # from PyPI # or, working inside this repo: uv pip install -e . ``` Add extras only when needed — examples: `cognee[postgres]`, `cognee[neo4j]`, `cognee[docling]` (office/HTML document parsing, slim), `cognee[docs]` (unstructured), `cognee[anthropic]`, `cognee[ollama]`, `cognee[aws]`. The full list is in `pyproject.toml` under `[project.optional-dependencies]`. ## Configure The only required setting is an LLM API key. Create `.env` in the working directory (or export the variable): ```bash LLM_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key" ``` Defaults need no services: SQLite (relational), LanceDB (vector), and Ladybug (graph), all stored locally. OpenAI is the default LLM and embedding provider — if you configure a different LLM but not embeddings (or vice versa), the other silently stays on OpenAI. For other providers and databases use the cognee-integrations skill. ## First run As of cognee 1.x the memory API — `remember`, `recall`, `forget`, `improve` — is the primary surface. All SDK functions are async. Minimal end-to-end script: …
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How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-install@sha256:d402cb2556b15291The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.8971ebe, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| git:20261015.8971ebe latest | 2026-10-15 | 8971ebe | 4,028 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.d802d12 | 2026-09-29 | d802d12 | 4,041 B | A | view |
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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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