cognee/cognee-mcp
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fix: mcp improvements (#472)
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Dependency Update**
	- Downgraded `mcp` package version from 1.2.0 to 1.1.3
- Updated `cognee` dependency to include additional features with
`cognee[codegraph]`

- **New Features**
- Introduced a new tool, "codify", for transforming codebases into
knowledge graphs
- Enhanced the existing "search" tool to accept a new parameter for
search type

- **Improvements**
	- Streamlined search functionality with a new modular approach
- Added new asynchronous function for retrieving and formatting code
parts

- **Documentation**
- Updated import paths for `SearchType` in various modules and tests to
reflect structural changes

- **Code Cleanup**
	- Removed legacy search module and associated classes/functions
	- Refined data transfer object classes for consistency and clarity
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Co-authored-by: Boris Arzentar <borisarzentar@gmail.com>
2025-02-04 08:47:31 +01:00
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src fix: mcp improvements (#472) 2025-02-04 08:47:31 +01:00
.python-version ruff format 2025-01-05 19:09:08 +01:00
pyproject.toml fix: mcp improvements (#472) 2025-02-04 08:47:31 +01:00
README.md fix: remove unnecessary dot 2025-01-23 11:47:20 +01:00
uv.lock fix: mcp improvements (#472) 2025-02-04 08:47:31 +01:00

cognee MCP server

Installing Manually

A MCP server project

  1. Clone the cognee repo

  2. Install dependencies

brew install uv
cd cognee-mcp
uv sync --dev --all-extras --reinstall
  1. Activate the venv with
source .venv/bin/activate
  1. Add the new server to your Claude config:

The file should be located here: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/

You need to create claude_desktop_config.json in this folder if it doesn't exist Make sure to add your paths and LLM API key to the file bellow Use your editor of choice, for example Nano:

nano claude_desktop_config.json
{
	"mcpServers": {
		"cognee": {
			"command": "/Users/{user}/cognee/.venv/bin/uv",
			"args": [
        "--directory",
        "/Users/{user}/cognee/cognee-mcp",
        "run",
        "cognee"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ENV": "local",
        "TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM": "false",
        "LLM_API_KEY": "sk-"
      }
		}
	}
}

Restart your Claude desktop.

Installing via Smithery

To install Cognee for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install cognee --client claude

Define cognify tool in server.py Restart your Claude desktop.

To use debugger, run:

mcp dev src/server.py

Open inspector with timeout passed:

http://localhost:5173?timeout=120000

To apply new changes while developing cognee you need to do:

  1. poetry lock in cognee folder
  2. uv sync --dev --all-extras --reinstall
  3. mcp dev src/server.py