cognee/cognee-mcp

cognee MCP server

Installing Manually

A MCP server project

1. Clone the cognee repo

2. Install dependencies

pip install uv

brew install postgresql

brew install rust

cd cognee-mcp
uv sync --dev --all-extras

3. Activate the venv with

source .venv/bin/activate

4. Add the new server to your Claude config:

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

"cognee": {
  "command": "uv",
  "args": [
    "--directory",
    "/{Absolute path to cognee directory}/cognee-mcp",
    "run",
    "cognee"
  ],
  "env": {
    "ENV": "local",
    "TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM": "false",
    "LLM_API_KEY": "add_your_api_key_here",
  }
}

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.