name: cognee-install description: Use when the user wants to install cognee and run their first remember → recall flow with the Python SDK — fresh setup, virtual env, extras selection, or a minimal working example.
Install and run cognee
Install
Requires Python 3.10–3.14. Prefer uv:
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install cognee # from PyPI
# or, working inside this repo:
uv pip install -e .
Add extras only when needed — examples: cognee[postgres], cognee[neo4j],
cognee[docling] (office/HTML document parsing, slim), cognee[docs]
(unstructured), , , . The full
list is in under .