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## Description
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
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- Clarified setup instructions to indicate that default configurations
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cognee - memory layer for AI apps and Agents
<p align="center">
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<a href="https://cognee.ai">Learn more</a>
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AI Agent responses you can rely on.
Build dynamic Agent memory using scalable, modular ECL (Extract, Cognify, Load) pipelines.
More on [use-cases](https://docs.cognee.ai/use_cases).
<div style="text-align: center">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/topoteretes/cognee/refs/heads/dev/assets/cognee_benefits.png" alt="Why cognee?" width="100%" />
</div>
</div>
## 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/1g-Qnx6l_ecHZi0IOw23rg0qC4TYvEvWZ?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.
### With pip
```bash
pip install cognee
```
## 💻 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
Add LLM_API_KEY to .env using the command bellow.
```
echo "LLM_API_KEY=YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY" > .env
```
You can see available env variables in the repository `.env.template` file. If you don't specify it otherwise, like in this example, SQLite (relational database), LanceDB (vector database) and NetworkX (graph store) will be used as default components.
This script will run the default pipeline:
```python
import cognee
import asyncio
from cognee.modules.search.types import SearchType
async def main():
# Create a clean slate for cognee -- reset data and system state
await cognee.prune.prune_data()
await cognee.prune.prune_system(metadata=True)
# cognee knowledge graph will be created based on this text
text = """
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary
subfield of computer science and information retrieval.
"""
print("Adding text to cognee:")
print(text.strip())
# Add the text, and make it available for cognify
await cognee.add(text)
# Use LLMs and cognee to create knowledge graph
await cognee.cognify()
print("Cognify process complete.\n")
query_text = "Tell me about NLP"
print(f"Searching cognee for insights with query: '{query_text}'")
# Query cognee for insights on the added text
search_results = await cognee.search(
query_text=query_text, query_type=SearchType.INSIGHTS
)
print("Search results:")
# Display results
for result_text in search_results:
print(result_text)
# Example output:
# ({'id': UUID('bc338a39-64d6-549a-acec-da60846dd90d'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 1, 211808, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'name': 'natural language processing', 'description': 'An interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and information retrieval.'}, {'relationship_name': 'is_a_subfield_of', 'source_node_id': UUID('bc338a39-64d6-549a-acec-da60846dd90d'), 'target_node_id': UUID('6218dbab-eb6a-5759-a864-b3419755ffe0'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 15, 473137, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)}, {'id': UUID('6218dbab-eb6a-5759-a864-b3419755ffe0'), 'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2024, 11, 21, 12, 23, 1, 211808, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'name': 'computer science', 'description': 'The study of computation and information processing.'})
# (...)
#
# It represents nodes and relationships in the knowledge graph:
# - The first element is the source node (e.g., 'natural language processing').
# - The second element is the relationship between nodes (e.g., 'is_a_subfield_of').
# - The third element is the target node (e.g., 'computer science').
if __name__ == '__main__':
asyncio.run(main())
```
For more advanced usage, have a look at our <a href="https://docs.cognee.ai"> documentation</a>.
## Understand our architecture
<div style="text-align: center">
<img src="assets/cognee_diagram.png" alt="cognee concept diagram" width="100%" />
</div>
## Demos
What is AI memory:
[Learn about cognee](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8b2a0050-5ec4-424c-b417-8269971503f0)
## 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
<a href="https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/graphs/contributors">
<img alt="contributors" src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=topoteretes/cognee"/>
</a>
## Star History
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