cognee-server SKILL.md skillA
cognee-server 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-server@git:20261028.c23440ePins git:20261028.c23440e 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-server/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261028.c23440e, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,111 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user wants to run the cognee API server (and optional UI) on their own machine — starting it, checking it's healthy, connecting the SDK or other clients to it, and choosing the right auth posture.
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
# Start the cognee server locally ## From an installed cognee (no Docker) ```bash cognee-cli -ui ``` launches the full local stack: FastAPI backend on **http://localhost:8000** and the UI on **http://localhost:3000**. Needs `LLM_API_KEY` in the environment or `.env`. The interactive API reference is at http://localhost:8000/docs, health at `/health`. For API-only serving via Docker instead, use the cognee-docker skill (the prebuilt `cognee/cognee:main` image or `docker compose up` from the repo). ## Auth posture `ENABLE_BACKEND_ACCESS_CONTROL` decides everything: - `true` (default): multi-tenant — auth required on every API call, per user+dataset database isolation. - `false`: single-user local mode — no auth, shared local databases. Right choice for a personal dev server; never for anything exposed. `REQUIRE_AUTHENTICATION=false` is ignored while access control is on; to turn auth off you must set `ENABLE_BACKEND_ACCESS_CONTROL=false`. Behind a TLS-terminating proxy set `AUTH_TOKEN_COOKIE_SECURE=true` so the auth cookie gets the `Secure` attribute; leave it off for plain `http://localhost`, where a browser refuses to store a Secure cookie. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-server@sha256:10ebb1a4c7351accThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.c23440e, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20261028.c23440e latest | 2026-10-28 | c23440e | 3,111 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.2b2d8d3 | 2026-10-23 | 2b2d8d3 | 3,032 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.3b2ec85 | 2026-10-20 | 3b2ec85 | 2,902 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.f4e7b58 | 2026-10-20 | f4e7b58 | 2,896 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.8971ebe | 2026-10-15 | 8971ebe | 2,813 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.d802d12 | 2026-09-29 | d802d12 | 2,823 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3111 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
topoteretes/cognee · 33,092 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c27vzb2yxbwh37v6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=topoteretes/cognee/cognee-server GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/10ebb1a4c7351acca594392dc7f3e148beee9283addfec4b8f7f9dc7b8431ffc
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