cognee (topoteretes/cognee) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 89 out of 100, grade B. It declares 11 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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27 days ago

cognee

Memory manager for AI apps and Agents using various graph and vector stores and allowing ingestion from 30+ data sources

→ topoteretes/cognee· listed on modelscope

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Maintenance & responsiveness
as of 2026-08-19
Issues closed (90d): 8 · 396 open
Releases (90d): 28
Contributor retention: 4/10 stayed · 7 active
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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
🔐
You'll be asked for 1 credential: COGNEE_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configINPUT
configMCP_DISABLE_DNS_REBINDING_PROTECTION
configMCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS
configMCP_CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS
configCOGNEE_MCP_AGENT_SCOPED
configCOGNEE_BASE_URL
🔐 secretCOGNEE_API_KEYexport ="ck_..."
configCOGNEE_SERVICE_URLCloud Mode – connect to [Cognee Cloud](https://www.cognee.ai) via --serve-url or env var (see [Connection Modes](#-connection-modes))
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

11/11 tools missing one or more hints — remember (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); recall (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); forget (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +8 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Destructive tools are labelled

1 tool perform destructive updates without destructiveHint — cognify_file deletes at line 1576 (os.unlink(tmp_path))

Add destructiveHint:true to any tool whose handler calls .delete(), .upsert(), .update(), unlink, rm, DELETE, DROP, REPLACE INTO, or any operation that overwrites existing data.

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commit: 4b9dd362625dfd3621c344e571a86f5bc7a55ee8
code hash: 6fe6664307fba36a7fa19cd32cfeb26045eb164324f121ddfaae6ee68cf4b967
verified: 8/14/2026, 9:51:18 AM
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