Cognee settings API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Cognee REST agents settings API
  description: 'The Cognee REST API provides endpoints for the complete AI memory lifecycle, including data ingestion, knowledge graph construction, and semantic retrieval. Core endpoints cover adding raw text or documents, triggering the cognify pipeline that extracts entities and relationships via LLM, executing multi-mode search queries, managing datasets, and creating agent identities. The API uses X-Api-Key header authentication for cloud deployments and Bearer token auth for self-hosted instances.

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  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Cognee Support
    url: https://docs.cognee.ai/api-reference/introduction
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.cognee.ai
  description: Cognee Cloud (managed)
- url: http://localhost:8000
  description: Self-hosted (Docker / local)
security:
- BearerAuth: []
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: settings
  description: System configuration (LLM and vector DB)
paths:
  /api/v1/settings:
    get:
      operationId: getSettings
      summary: Get current system settings
      description: 'Retrieves the current configuration for LLM provider and vector database. Supports openai, ollama, anthropic, gemini, mistral for LLM and lancedb, chromadb, pgvector for vector DB.

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      tags:
      - settings
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
      - ApiKeyAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Current system settings
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Settings'
    post:
      operationId: saveSettings
      summary: Save or update system settings
      description: 'Updates LLM provider configuration and/or vector database configuration. Partial updates are supported — only the provided fields are changed.

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      tags:
      - settings
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
      - ApiKeyAuth: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SettingsPayload'
            example:
              llm:
                provider: openai
                model: gpt-4o
                api_key: sk-...
              vector_db:
                provider: lancedb
                url: /var/lancedb
                api_key: ''
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Settings saved
components:
  schemas:
    SettingsPayload:
      type: object
      properties:
        llm:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LLMConfig'
        vector_db:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/VectorDBConfig'
    VectorDBConfig:
      type: object
      properties:
        provider:
          type: string
          enum:
          - lancedb
          - chromadb
          - pgvector
        url:
          type: string
        api_key:
          type: string
      required:
      - provider
      - url
      - api_key
    Settings:
      type: object
      properties:
        llm:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LLMConfig'
        vector_db:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/VectorDBConfig'
      required:
      - llm
      - vector_db
    LLMConfig:
      type: object
      properties:
        provider:
          type: string
          enum:
          - openai
          - ollama
          - anthropic
          - gemini
          - mistral
        model:
          type: string
        api_key:
          type: string
      required:
      - provider
      - model
      - api_key
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: Bearer token authentication for self-hosted instances
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key
      description: API key authentication for Cognee Cloud deployments
externalDocs:
  description: Cognee API Reference
  url: https://docs.cognee.ai/api-reference/introduction