cognee-recall SKILL.md skillA
cognee-recall 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
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- git:20261029.0989319, committed Oct 29, 2026
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- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when querying cognee memory with recall() (or search()) — picking a search type, understanding auto-routing, scoping to datasets, node sets or sessions, getting context or citations instead of an answer, reading the results, or debugging empty or unexpected results.
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What the file says
# Query memory with recall()
`recall()` is cognee's query API. It picks a search strategy, searches the
graph and (with a session) the session cache, and returns a list of tagged
results.
```python
import cognee
results = await cognee.recall("Where was Einstein born?")
for r in results:
print(r.source, r.text) # e.g. "graph", "Einstein was born in Ulm."
```
Without `datasets` it covers every dataset the user can read, but dataset
routing (always on, no off switch) scores those datasets
against the query on their global context index and searches only the best
`DATASET_ROUTING_TOP_K` (default 1), plus any dataset that has no index yet.
A dataset farther than `DATASET_ROUTING_DISTANCE_CUTOFF` (cosine distance,
default 0.8) is skipped, and when none is within it all are searched; datasets
within `DATASET_ROUTING_TIE_MARGIN` (default 0.001) of the last routed one are
searched too. A routed search that finds nothing is widened to the rest. The
search log prints every dataset's distance. Routing assumes
one embedding model across datasets; after an `EMBEDDING_MODEL` change it
logs a warning and every readable dataset is searched. Pass
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How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-recall@sha256:13994db1ddde0700The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.0989319, 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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