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topoteretes/cognee

RepoRadar surfaced topoteretes/cognee — a developer tool — into the Radar section, where it sits at Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 10.0 out of 10.

Score8.7
Popularity9.1
Risklow
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum9.0
Maturity6.9
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential10.0
Setup ease6.4

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for AI agent builders, RAG application teams, and knowledge-management engineers who need an Apache-2.0-licensed, open-source AI memory platform that combines vector search, graph databases, and LLM-driven entity extraction to give AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions, so they can ship agents that remember users, conversations, and knowledge graph relationships instead of

Who should use it

AI agent builders who need an Apache-2.0-licensed, open-source AI memory platform that gives agents persistent long-term memory across sessions RAG application teams who want a single platform that combines vector search, graph databases, and LLM-driven entity extraction instead of stitching them together by hand knowledge-management engineers who need an Apache-2.0 alternative to closed-source, vendor-locked AI memory vendors open-source contributors who want an Apache-2.0-licensed AI memory layer that supports both vector and graph retrieval patterns

Who should skip it

Pass on topoteretes/cognee if its scope or audience does not match what your team is building right now.

About this signal

topoteretes/cognee is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Radar section. First seen 2026-06-22; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-22. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. topoteretes/cognee leads on workflow potential (10.0) and practical usefulness (9.0); its lowest signal is setup ease (6.4), so factor that in before investing setup time. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The topoteretes/cognee record combines a 8.7/10 composite score with separate popularity (9.1), risk (low), and setup (moderate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to vet an AI agent or MCP server before you wire it in for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

It is an Apache-2.0-licensed AI memory platform that ingests documents and conversation transcripts into vector + graph + entity stores, so review which data sources the memory layer can reach, scope which conversations and user data the platform can persist, confirm retention and deletion discipline match your privacy policy, and gate any production rollout behind a privacy and data-retention review before connecting user-facing agent traffic.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
ai-memory agent-memory knowledge-graph vector-database graph-rag rag ai-agents llm
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

44 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-21 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.7 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.6 current · +0.6 net
GitHub stars (observed)29,998 current · +2,283 net
GitHub stars29,998 exact observation
Versionv1.4.2
Last release2026-08-08T17:56:06Z
Maintenanceactive
Current risklow
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.79.629,998lowtry nowactive
2026-08-128.79.629,975lowtry nowactive
2026-08-118.79.629,951lowtry nowactive
2026-08-108.79.629,907lowtry nowactive
2026-08-098.79.629,886lowtry nowactive
2026-08-088.79.629,855lowtry nowactive
2026-08-078.79.629,719lowtry nowactive
2026-08-068.79.0Not recordedlowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.79.0Not recordedlowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.79.629,719lowtry nowactive
2026-08-038.79.629,719lowtry nowactive
2026-08-028.79.629,684lowtry nowactive

Why the record changed

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Version changed: v1.4.1.dev1 → v1.4.2.

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Source-observed stars changed: 29636 → 29647. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

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Source-observed stars changed: 29635 → 29636. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.