Use when working with cognee's users, permissions, and multi-tenancy — creating users, tenants and roles, sharing datasets (read/write/delete/share grants), acting as a specific user in the SDK or authenticating over HTTP (login, API keys), turning access control on or off, debugging PermissionDeniedError or missing datasets, or understanding where permissions are enforced and how datasets are isolated.
Use when querying cognee memory with recall() (or search()) — picking a search type, understanding auto-routing, scoping to datasets, node sets or sessions, getting context or citations instead of an answer, reading the results, or debugging empty or unexpected results.
Use when the user wants to run the cognee API server (and optional UI) on their own machine — starting it, checking it's healthy, connecting the SDK or other clients to it, and choosing the right auth posture.
Build one company memory from a SQL database, a support ticket export and a folder of documents, linked into one graph by cognee, then answer questions that need several of those sources together. Use when someone wants to connect their company's database, tickets and docs, or asks who owns, decided or is handling something across them. Runs locally; reads the sources, writes only to cognee's memory.
Turn your latest Granola call into next steps (owner, team, due date, and the Linear issue that already tracks each one) and post them to Slack, using cognee memory of your calls, Linear issues and Gmail inbox. Use when someone asks for the next steps or action items of their latest call. Runs locally; reads Gmail read-only; posts to Slack only when Slack is set up.
Draft a reply to your newest Gmail email that knows what you discussed in your Granola meetings, what you promised the sender, and how you write, using cognee memory. Use when someone asks to answer or reply to their latest email in their own tone. Runs locally; reads Gmail read-only; the draft is printed, never sent.
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.