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# Communities

In Graphiti, communities (represented as `CommunityNode` objects) represent groups of related entity nodes.
Communities can be generated using the `build_communities` method on the graphiti class.

```python
await graphiti.build_communities()
```

Communities are determined using a label-propagation algorithm, which groups strongly connected nodes together.
Communities contain a summary field that collates the summaries held on each of its member entities.
This allows Graphiti to provide high-level synthesized information about what the graph contains in addition to the more granular facts stored on edges.

After you build communities, set `update_communities=True` when you call
`add_episode` to assign new entity nodes to existing communities. Rebuild the
communities periodically to recalculate all groups. The `build_communities`
method removes the existing communities before it creates new communities.

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