Community EditionZep Open Source v0.x

Quick Start

Get started with Zep Open Source v0.x

You are viewing the Zep Open Source v0.x documentation. This version is no longer supported, and documentation is provided as a reference only.

The current documentation for Zep Community Edition is available here.

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Starting a Zep server locally is simple.

  1. Clone the Zep repo
$git clone https://github.com/getzep/zep.git
  1. Add your OpenAI API key to a .env file in the root of the repo:
$ZEP_OPENAI_API_KEY=<your key here>

Note: Zep uses OpenAI for chat history summarization, intent analysis, and, by default, embeddings. You can get an Open AI Key here.

  1. Start the Zep server:
$docker compose pull
>docker compose up

This will start a Zep server on port 8000, and NLP and database server backends.

  1. Get started with the Zep SDKs!