Self Hosted Companion
Chat with a companion that knows your notes folder (a journal, an Obsidian vault, any...
Install
npx skills add topoteretes/cognee --skill self-hosted-companion -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- topoteretes/cognee33k
- Category
- Writing
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Lightabout 592 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
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.
Self-hosted AI companion
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.
Steps
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.
- Run
uv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/self_hosted_companion.py --check <folder>with the notes folder the user named.- Exit 0: go to step 2.
- Exit 2: each
[setup] MISSING:line names one fix. Tell the user which line to fix, using the README's "What it needs" table, and stop.
- You can't type into the interactive chat, so pass the user's message with
--ask:uv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/self_hosted_companion.py <folder> --ask "...". Once the folder is remembered, later messages only needuv run python examples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/scripts/chat.py --ask "...". - The answer is everything after
[chat] companion>. Give it to the user. Each--askis its own chat session, saved to memory, so a later one knows it. - If a script fails,
self_hosted_companion.pyexits 1 with a line naming what went wrong. Run that script fromexamples/cookbooks/self_hosted_companion/scripts/on its own to look closer.
