> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Visualize Brains Summary

> Return every dataset the caller may read, described from relational metadata.

The cheap counterpart of `GET /visualize/brains`: the same datasets,
but only what an overview shows — name, sources, size, colors — built
from relational metadata and the per-cognify-run count cache instead
of one bounded graph read per dataset. The cost is one count query per
cognify run whose count is not cached yet, not a graph fetch per
dataset on every call, so a cold cache pays once per run and every
later call pays nothing. `/brains` stays the call to make when the
node and link arrays themselves are needed.

## Response
`{dataset_id: {"name", "source_names", "node_count", "node_set_colors"}}`:
- **name** (str): the dataset's name
- **source_names** (list[str]): its distinct node set names, sorted;
  empty when the data was ingested without node sets
- **node_count** (int): nodes in the dataset's graph as of its latest
  cognify run — the whole graph, not only entity nodes, and 0 for a
  dataset that has never been cognified
- **node_set_colors** (dict[str, str]): node set colors from the same
  rule `/brains` uses. Same rule and same node sets give the same
  colors, but the two endpoints can be looking at different node
  sets — `/brains` takes them from a bounded graph fetch (and so sees
  sets that exist only in the graph), this takes them from a full
  relational scan — and where the sets differ the colors do too

## Error Codes
- **409 Conflict**: Payload could not be built (generic message; full
  detail is server-logged, not returned, to avoid leaking internals)

## Notes
- Only datasets the caller has read permission on are included



## OpenAPI

````yaml /cognee_openapi_spec.json get /api/v1/visualize/brains-summary
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Cognee API
  description: Cognee API with Bearer token and Cookie auth
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.cognee.ai
    description: Production server (full functionality)
  - url: http://localhost:8000
    description: Local development server (requires local setup)
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: activity
    description: >-
      Activity endpoints for inspecting pipeline runs, traced spans, tenant
      users, agents, and dataset exports.
  - name: add
    description: Data ingestion endpoints for adding text, files, and structured data.
  - name: agent connections
    description: >-
      Endpoints for registering, unregistering, and inspecting agent connections
      to the instance.
  - name: agent management
    description: Endpoints for creating, listing, retrieving, and deleting agents.
  - name: auth
    description: >-
      Authentication endpoints for user registration, login, and token
      management.
  - name: checks
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for validating a Cognee Cloud API key supplied in the
      X-Api-Key header.
  - name: cognify
    description: >-
      Knowledge processing endpoints to transform raw data into knowledge
      graphs.
  - name: configuration
    description: >-
      Endpoints for storing, retrieving, and listing a user's saved
      configurations.
  - name: datasets
    description: Dataset management endpoints for listing, creating, and deleting datasets.
  - name: delete
    description: Data deletion endpoints (deprecated — use datasets endpoints instead).
  - name: forget
    description: Endpoint for removing data from the knowledge graph.
  - name: health
    description: Liveness, readiness, and component health checks.
  - name: improve
    description: Endpoint for enriching and improving an existing knowledge graph.
  - name: integrations
    description: >-
      Endpoints for connecting, provisioning, and disconnecting OAuth providers
      and plugins.
  - name: llm
    description: >-
      LLM-backed endpoints for inferring graph schemas and generating custom
      extraction prompts.
  - name: memify
    description: >-
      Endpoint for running enrichment pipelines over existing graphs or supplied
      data.
  - name: ontologies
    description: >-
      Endpoints for uploading, listing, and deleting ontology files used during
      cognify.
  - name: permissions
    description: Permission management for multi-user access control.
  - name: recall
    description: >-
      Endpoints for querying the knowledge graph and reviewing past recall
      history.
  - name: remember
    description: >-
      Endpoints for ingesting data into the knowledge graph and storing session
      memory entries.
  - name: responses
    description: Response generation endpoints using the knowledge graph.
  - name: schema
    description: >-
      Schema inspection endpoints for a dataset's derived schema inventory and
      the caller-wide memory provenance graph.
  - name: search
    description: Search endpoints for querying the knowledge graph.
  - name: sessions
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing sessions and reporting usage, cost, and token
      statistics.
  - name: settings
    description: Configuration endpoints for managing Cognee settings.
  - name: skills
    description: >-
      Skill management endpoints for ingesting, listing, retrieving, and
      deleting dataset skills, plus read-only retrieval of improvement
      proposals.
  - name: slack
    description: >-
      Endpoints for listing workspace channels, setting channel allowlists, and
      linking Slack accounts.
  - name: sync
    description: Endpoints for syncing local data to Cognee Cloud and checking sync status.
  - name: update
    description: Endpoint for updating existing data in a dataset.
  - name: users
    description: User management endpoints.
  - name: validate
    description: >-
      Diagnostic endpoint for checking consistency between a dataset's graph and
      vector stores.
  - name: visualize
    description: Graph visualization endpoints.
paths:
  /api/v1/visualize/brains-summary:
    get:
      tags:
        - visualize
      summary: Visualize Brains Summary
      description: >-
        Return every dataset the caller may read, described from relational
        metadata.


        The cheap counterpart of `GET /visualize/brains`: the same datasets,

        but only what an overview shows — name, sources, size, colors — built

        from relational metadata and the per-cognify-run count cache instead

        of one bounded graph read per dataset. The cost is one count query per

        cognify run whose count is not cached yet, not a graph fetch per

        dataset on every call, so a cold cache pays once per run and every

        later call pays nothing. `/brains` stays the call to make when the

        node and link arrays themselves are needed.


        ## Response

        `{dataset_id: {"name", "source_names", "node_count",
        "node_set_colors"}}`:

        - **name** (str): the dataset's name

        - **source_names** (list[str]): its distinct node set names, sorted;
          empty when the data was ingested without node sets
        - **node_count** (int): nodes in the dataset's graph as of its latest
          cognify run — the whole graph, not only entity nodes, and 0 for a
          dataset that has never been cognified
        - **node_set_colors** (dict[str, str]): node set colors from the same
          rule `/brains` uses. Same rule and same node sets give the same
          colors, but the two endpoints can be looking at different node
          sets — `/brains` takes them from a bounded graph fetch (and so sees
          sets that exist only in the graph), this takes them from a full
          relational scan — and where the sets differ the colors do too

        ## Error Codes

        - **409 Conflict**: Payload could not be built (generic message; full
          detail is server-logged, not returned, to avoid leaking internals)

        ## Notes

        - Only datasets the caller has read permission on are included
      operationId: visualize_brains_summary_api_v1_visualize_brains_summary_get
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key

````