cognee-docker SKILL.md skillA
cognee-docker 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-docker@git:20260929.d802d12Pins git:20260929.d802d12 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-docker/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260929.d802d12, committed Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,608 bytes
- Repository stars
- 33,092
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user wants to run cognee with Docker or docker compose — trying it out from the prebuilt image, starting the API server in a container, or bringing up the full stack (UI, MCP, Postgres, Neo4j) with compose profiles.
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 cognee from the Docker image
## Fastest path: prebuilt image, one file
For a local try-out, do NOT clone or build anything. Follow
`docs/minimal-docker-compose.md`: save this as `docker-compose.yml` in an
empty directory:
```yaml
services:
cognee:
image: cognee/cognee:main
ports:
- "8000:8000"
environment:
LLM_API_KEY: ${LLM_API_KEY:?set LLM_API_KEY to your OpenAI API key}
# Single-user try-out: no auth, shared local databases.
ENABLE_BACKEND_ACCESS_CONTROL: "false"
```
Then:
```bash
export LLM_API_KEY="sk-..." # OpenAI key (default LLM + embedding provider)
docker compose up
curl http://localhost:8000/health
```
Interactive API reference: http://localhost:8000/docs. First requests:
```bash
echo "Cognee turns documents into AI memory." > note.txt
# remember = ingest + build the graph in one call (multipart form)
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/v1/remember -F "data=@note.txt" -F "datasetName=main_dataset"
# recall = query it (JSON)
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/v1/recall -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "What does Cognee do?", "datasets": ["main_dataset"]}'
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add topoteretes/cognee/cognee-docker@sha256:35271fdb2d24e609The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.d802d12, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3608 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
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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_sv7khmya274xpzv5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=topoteretes/cognee/cognee-docker GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/35271fdb2d24e6098ba50058a565033392b7bc5d757155193e39753e3d0afcb1
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