Overview
cognee-community is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by topoteretes. Its author describes it as: “Use when the user needs something that ships outside cognee core — community database adapters (Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, Redis, Pinecone, FalkorDB, Memgraph, DuckDB, NetworkX, …), data-source connectors (Slack, Gmail…”. The project has 30k stars on GitHub and is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee ~/.claude/skills/cognee-community`.
What cognee-community does
Community-maintained plugins live in a separate monorepo: https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee-community. Everything installable is under `packages/`; `experimental/` holds demos (n8n nodes, dlt demos, bauplan, tower) that are not published packages. Each package publishes to PyPI as `cognee-community---` and imports as the same name with underscores.
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What’s inside
The SKILL.md for cognee-community is organised into these sections:
- Package families
- Using a database adapter
- Using a connector
- Verifying an install
- Contributing a package
Installation
Add cognee-community to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee ~/.claude/skills/cognee-communityReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
Neither the skill nor its repository names a specific agent. It uses the SKILL.md format, which several agents can load — check the repository for any agent-specific requirements.
License
cognee-community is published under the Apache-2.0 license.
Strengths
- Clear Apache-2.0 license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in topoteretes/cognee, an established project with 30,102 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
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Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does cognee-community do?
- Use when the user needs something that ships outside cognee core — community database adapters (Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, Redis, Pinecone, FalkorDB, Memgraph, DuckDB, NetworkX, …), data-source connectors (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Confluence, Google Drive), custom tasks/pipelines/retrievers (Exa, ScrapeGraph, codify), Keywords AI observability — or wants to contribute a package to the cognee-community repo.
- How do I install cognee-community?
- Run git clone https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee ~/.claude/skills/cognee-community in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee before installing.
- Is cognee-community free to use?
- Yes. cognee-community is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does cognee-community come from?
- cognee-community ships inside topoteretes/cognee, a repository that contains 11 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 30,102 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.