cognee/README.md
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## Description
Add info about installing Cognee locally

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cognee - Memory for AI Agents in 5 lines of code
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Build dynamic Agent memory using scalable, modular ECL (Extract, Cognify, Load) pipelines.
More on [use-cases](https://docs.cognee.ai/use-cases) and [evals](https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/tree/main/evals)
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## Features
- Interconnect and retrieve your past conversations, documents, images and audio transcriptions
- Reduce hallucinations, developer effort, and cost.
- Load data to graph and vector databases using only Pydantic
- Manipulate your data while ingesting from 30+ data sources
## Get Started
Get started quickly with a Google Colab <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jHbWVypDgCLwjE71GSXhRL3YxYhCZzG1?usp=sharing">notebook</a> or <a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee-starter">starter repo</a>
## Contributing
Your contributions are at the core of making this a true open source project. Any contributions you make are **greatly appreciated**. See [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information.
## 📦 Installation
You can install Cognee using either **pip**, **poetry**, **uv** or any other python package manager.
Cognee supports Python 3.8 to 3.12
### With pip
```bash
pip install cognee
```
## Local Cognee installation
You can install the local Cognee repo using **pip**, **poetry** and **uv**.
For local pip installation please make sure your pip version is above version 21.3.
### with UV with all optional dependencies
```bash
uv sync --all-extras
```
## 💻 Basic Usage
### Setup
```
import os
os.environ["LLM_API_KEY"] = "YOUR OPENAI_API_KEY"
```
You can also set the variables by creating .env file, using our <a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/blob/main/.env.template">template.</a>
To use different LLM providers, for more info check out our <a href="https://docs.cognee.ai">documentation</a>
### Simple example
This script will run the default pipeline:
```python
import cognee
import asyncio
async def main():
# Add text to cognee
await cognee.add("Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and information retrieval.")
# Generate the knowledge graph
await cognee.cognify()
# Query the knowledge graph
results = await cognee.search("Tell me about NLP")
# Display the results
for result in results:
print(result)
if __name__ == '__main__':
asyncio.run(main())
```
Example output:
```
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary field that involves computer science and information retrieval. It focuses on the interaction between computers and human language, enabling machines to understand and process natural language.
```
### cognee UI
You can also cognify your files and query using cognee UI.
<img src="assets/cognee-ui-2.webp" width="100%" alt="Cognee UI 2"></a>
Try cognee UI out locally [here](https://docs.cognee.ai/how-to-guides/cognee-ui).
## Understand our architecture
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<img src="assets/cognee_diagram.png" alt="cognee concept diagram" width="100%" />
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## Demos
1. What is AI memory:
[Learn about cognee](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8b2a0050-5ec4-424c-b417-8269971503f0)
2. Simple GraphRAG demo
[Simple GraphRAG demo](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d80b0776-4eb9-4b8e-aa22-3691e2d44b8f)
3. cognee with Ollama
[cognee with local models](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8621d3e8-ecb8-4860-afb2-5594f2ee17db)
## Code of Conduct
We are committed to making open source an enjoyable and respectful experience for our community. See <a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"><code>CODE_OF_CONDUCT</code></a> for more information.
## 💫 Contributors
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## Star History
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