Is cognee Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory with small models for free”
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 100/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
cognee’s main branch received 2,651 commits in the last 91 days, against 1,283 in the same 91 days a year earlier (+107%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 32,494 stars on GitHub.
cognee usage: downloads and installs
cogneeTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: PyPI download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 18:57 UTC.
cognee security practices and adoption
Security practices
OpenSSF Scorecard, an automated review of how the repository is run
- Code review4/10
- Branch protectionn/a
- Vulnerabilities0/10
- Dangerous workflow10/10
- Pinned dependencies8/10
- Security policy10/10
All 18 checks
- Maintained10/10
- Dependency update tool10/10
- Binary artifacts10/10
- Token permissions0/10
- OpenSSF Best Practices badge0/10
- License10/10
- Static analysis (SAST)9/10
- Signed releases10/10
- Packaging10/10
- Fuzzing0/10
- CI tests10/10
- Contributors10/10
Full report, run 16 Oct 2026
Used by other projects
deps.dev: PyPI packages that depend on cognee 1.6.5
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents0
- RegistryPyPI
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv1.6.5
- Published16 Oct 2026
- Downloads of its 4 files18
- Contributors296
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: OpenSSF Scorecard, deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 19:37 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 35.0 / 35 | 2,651 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | 207% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 2 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 2 days ago |
| Community | 20.0 / 20 | 779 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 839. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
cognee: common questions
Is cognee still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, cognee received 2,651 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 16 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 100 out of 100.
What is the latest cognee release?
The latest GitHub release of cognee is v1.6.5, published on 16 October 2026.
How many people contribute to cognee?
GitHub lists 296 contributors for cognee. 779 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does cognee use?
GitHub identifies the cognee licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How many times is cognee downloaded?
The cognee package on PyPI was downloaded 86,048 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
Is cognee secure?
We cannot say whether the code is free of vulnerabilities. What can be measured is how the project is run: the OpenSSF Scorecard gives cognee 7.1 out of 10 for security practices (run 16 October 2026), covering checks such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies. Read the full report and the project’s security policy before relying on it.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
Have you used cognee? Rate it:
Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 32,442 | 2,664 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 32,406 | 2,706 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for cognee since then.
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Status badge
Show cognee’s live maintenance status in a README. The badge updates with this page and links back to it.
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.