Cognee MCP Server

MCP server giving AI assistants persistent memory backed by a Cognee knowledge graph via remember, recall and forget tools.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://docs.cognee.ai/cognee-mcp/mcp-overview

Repository

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

Apache-2.0

Maintainer

Cognee (topoteretes)

Added

2026-10-14

Updated

2026-10-16

Last verified

2026-10-16

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• memory
• knowledge-graph
• self-hosted

Description

The cognee-mcp package (in the cognee repo's cognee-mcp/ folder) bundles the full Cognee library. Standalone mode runs locally with SQLite, LanceDB and an embedded graph store; API mode connects to a shared Cognee backend. Docker or local setup.

Agent access

llms.txt

https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt

Notes

Self-hosted (Docker or local); no public hosted endpoint.

Related

• Cognee: Open-source AI memory platform for agents that turns documents and conversations into graph, vector and relational memory.

Sources

• https://docs.cognee.ai/cognee-mcp/mcp-overview.md
• https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/tree/main/cognee-mcp

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)