Cognee is a platform designed to aid agents in retrieving, reasoning, and maintaining structured and temporal context through an innovative memory engine. It ingests data from various sources, creates a knowledge graph, and uses both graph and vector search capabilities to answer complex queries. The platform addresses common challenges such as stateless context and complex orchestration in AI development by implementing isolated memory stores using LanceDB, a file-based vector database that supports each workspace independently. This setup allows Cognee to streamline development cycles, enhance product quality, and ensure seamless scalability from local environments to production via its hosted service, cogwit. LanceDB's file-based approach offers significant advantages, including unified storage, zero-copy evolution, and hybrid search capabilities, simplifying the development process and reducing operational complexity. By integrating graph and vector search within a single architecture, Cognee supports efficient data retrieval and improved accuracy in multi-hop reasoning tasks, providing a robust solution for developing autonomous agents and applications in knowledge-intensive domains.