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Chat with a companion that knows your notes folder (a journal, an Obsidian vault, any .md or .txt files) and every earlier chat, using cognee memory with local databases. Use when someone wants to ask
The skill file stays in the publisher's repository.
Paste the copied command in a terminal. It installs this SKILL.md into that agent.
npx skills add topoteretes/cognee --skill self-hosted-companion -a cursor -y
Chat with a companion that knows your notes folder (a journal, an Obsidian vault, any .md or .txt files) and every earlier chat, using cognee memory with local databases. Use when someone wants to ask questions about their own notes, or to talk with a companion that remembers past conversations. Runs locally; reads the notes folder, writes only to cognee's memory.
Chat with a companion that knows your notes folder (a journal, an Obsidian vault, any .md or .txt files) and every earlier chat, using cognee memory with local databases. Use when someone wants to ask questions about their own notes, or to talk with a companion that remembers past conversations. Runs locally; reads the notes folder, writes only to cognee's memory.
Runs the self-hosted companion cookbook in examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/. It
remembers a notes folder in the cognee dataset self_hosted_companion, then answers
messages about it; each chat is saved to memory, so a later one knows it. Setup, the
scripts and what each one does are in the cookbook's
README.md.
Run every command from the repo root.
Without a notes folder of the user's own, or to see it work first, leave out <folder>
below: the run then uses sample notes (the [setup] line says so). It needs only
LLM_API_KEY. Tell the user the answer comes from sample notes.
uv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/self_hosted_companion.py --check <folder>
with the notes folder the user named.
[setup] MISSING: line names one fix. Tell the user which line to fix,
using the README's "What it needs" table, and stop.--ask:
uv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/self_hosted_companion.py <folder> --ask "...".
Once the folder is remembered, later messages only need
uv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/scripts/chat.py --ask "...".[chat] companion>. Give it to the user. Each --ask is
its own chat session, saved to memory, so a later one knows it.self_hosted_companion.py exits 1 with a line naming what went
wrong. Run that script from examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/scripts/ on its
own to look closer..env.self_hosted_companion before it ingests (the [clear]
line). On the user's own data, pass --clear only when they asked to start over: it
forgets everything the dataset holds, including the earlier chats.--ui unless the user asked to browse the graph: it keeps running until
Ctrl+C.uv run cognee-cli forget --dataset self_hosted_companion