# topoteretes/cognee

> Open-source AI memory platform for agents: turns documents, code, and conversations into a self-hosted knowledge graph agents can search and reuse across sessions. Runs locally on free small models with no API key required.

- Magnitude: 3.2 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 31,112 total · +18 stars today, ≈ 47 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Python · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2023-08-16 · Last push: 2026-09-27
- GitHub: https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee · Homepage: https://www.cognee.ai · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/topoteretes/cognee

## Useful for

- Build a shared team memory from docs, tickets, and code to trace links between decisions
- Give an agent long-term memory of past decisions and fixes across runs
- Run a local knowledge graph from your own text without an LLM or API key via cognee-cli

## Why it’s here

- 18 stars so far today, about 47 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.3× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #13, +103 stars.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,111
- Issues and pull requests: 5,030
- Watchers: 114
- Average over the last week: 38 per day
- Usual pace: 30 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v1.6.1 (2026-09-24)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-30 … 2026-09-28: 22, 31, 28, 26, 22, 30, 27, 47, 40, 30, 17, 29, 17, 17, 20, 21, 23, 46, 41, 37, 31, 29, 31, 37, 28, 22, 17, 16, 99, 18

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Python today: #13, +103 stars

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