cognee-mcp

cognee MCP server

Installing Manually

A MCP server project

1. Clone the cognee repo
2. Install dependencies

3. Activate the venv with

4. Add the new server to your Claude config:

The file should be located here: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/

You need to create claude_desktop_config.json in this folder if it doesn't exist Make sure to add your paths and LLM API key to the file bellow Use your editor of choice, for example Nano:

Restart your Claude desktop.

Installing via Smithery

To install Cognee for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

Define cognify tool in server.py Restart your Claude desktop.

To use debugger, run:

Open inspector with timeout passed:

To apply new changes while developing cognee you need to do:

1. poetry lock in cognee folder
2. uv sync --dev --all-extras --reinstall
3. mcp dev src/server.py

Development

In order to use local cognee build, run in root of the cognee repo:

After the build process is done, change the cognee library dependency inside the cognee-mcp/pyproject.toml from

to

After that add the following snippet to the same file (cognee-mcp/pyproject.toml).