cognee-forget SKILL.md skillA
cognee-forget 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-forget@git:20261027.17a737cPins git:20261027.17a737c 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-forget/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261027.17a737c, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 9,833 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when removing data from cognee memory with forget() in the SDK, HTTP API, or CLI — finding which dataset and document hold the content to delete (listing datasets and data items, reading raw content), choosing between deleting one document, a whole dataset, or only the graph/vector memory, and doing it safely.
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
# Remove data with forget()
`forget()` is cognee's one deletion API. It removes one document, a whole
dataset, or only the derived memory (graph + vectors) while keeping the raw
files. Deletion cannot be undone, so the workflow is always **find, read,
confirm, then delete**.
> **Hard limits for agents**
> - Delete only what the user asked to forget. Identify it by reading the
> content first; never guess from a file name alone.
> - Confirm the exact items with the user before deleting, unless they
> already named exact ids.
> - The widest deletion you may run is `forget(everything=True)`, and only
> when the user explicitly asks to wipe all of their memory. Never use any
> other reset or wipe mechanism to delete data.
## Use it
### 1. Find the dataset
```python
import cognee
datasets = await cognee.datasets.list_datasets() # datasets the user can read
for ds in datasets:
print(ds.id, ds.name)
```
HTTP: `GET /api/v1/datasets`. CLI: `cognee-cli datasets list`.
### 2. List its documents
```python
items = await cognee.datasets.list_data(dataset_id) # all Data rows, oldest first
for item in items:
print(item.id, item.name, item.extension, item.created_at)
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-forget@sha256:ea46a4168f1931e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.17a737c, 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 7 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20261027.17a737c latest | 2026-10-27 | 17a737c | 9,833 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.5d26d9c | 2026-10-23 | 5d26d9c | 9,854 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.029bc39 | 2026-10-23 | 029bc39 | 9,717 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.df7d2e9 | 2026-10-22 | df7d2e9 | 9,269 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.0de68db | 2026-10-22 | 0de68db | 8,427 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.6e7b2ca | 2026-09-29 | 6e7b2ca | 7,689 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.d802d12 | 2026-09-29 | d802d12 | 7,691 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 (9833 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
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