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.
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:
poetry lock in cognee folderuv sync --dev --all-extras --reinstallmcp dev src/server.pyIn 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).
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local-only server
The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.
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