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!