cognee-cli SKILL.md skillA
cognee-cli 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-cli@git:20261027.d35833cPins git:20261027.d35833c 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-cli/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261027.d35833c, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 8,667 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user wants to drive cognee from the terminal with cognee-cli — remember/recall/forget/improve memory commands, managing datasets and config, or database migrations.
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
# Use the cognee CLI `cognee-cli` ships with the package (entry point in `cognee/cli/_cognee.py`; each command lives in `cognee/cli/commands/`). Every command has `--help` for its flags, but only a few (`demo`, `eval`, `serve`, `push`, `upgrade`, `downgrade`, `stamp`, and `search` with one CODE example) include usage examples — for the memory commands use the examples in this file. Needs `LLM_API_KEY` configured, same as the SDK. ## Core flow The memory commands are the primary surface as of cognee 1.x: ```bash cognee-cli remember "Your text here" # also accepts file paths / URLs cognee-cli remember ./docs --dataset-name my_project cognee-cli recall "Your question" # query the graph cognee-cli recall "keyword" --query-type CHUNKS cognee-cli forget --all # wipe local state ``` `remember` is ingest + graph build in one step (`add` + `cognify` under the hood); `--background`/`-b` runs the cognify stage in the background, and `--dry-run` estimates LLM tokens/cost without ingesting. `recall` takes `--datasets`/`-d`, `--top-k`/`-k` (default 10), and `--session-id`/`-s`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-cli@sha256:6a820d8632a1cfccThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.d35833c, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261027.d35833c latest | 2026-10-27 | d35833c | 8,667 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.8971ebe | 2026-10-15 | 8971ebe | 8,680 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.cb35dd0 | 2026-10-09 | cb35dd0 | 8,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.200aa80 | 2026-10-09 | 200aa80 | 8,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.d802d12 | 2026-09-29 | d802d12 | 8,849 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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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_qooxzgzcezx5o3kd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=topoteretes/cognee/cognee-cli GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6a820d8632a1cfccb44c0f31b58bffdee9ab4c4acabf3a2e73ed64e019f9d442
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