Working with Context | Zep Documentation

Zep turns business data, documents, JSON, and conversations into temporal Context Graphs of entities, relationships, facts, and source episodes. An application can then retrieve selected graph data as context for a task.

Work through the stages in order, or jump to the one you need.

Stage	What you do	Start here
Ingest	Add conversations, business data, documents, or JSON to the correct user or shared Context Graph	Ingest
Shape the Graph	Customize extraction — ontology, domain terminology, summaries, and observations	Shape the Graph
Retrieve	Search a graph or assemble facts, entities, summaries, and other context types	Retrieve
Govern	Control which callers can retrieve each graph and source, trace facts to source episodes, and review recorded activity	Governance

Ingest and Retrieve are required for each implementation. Zep extracts entities, relationships, and summaries automatically. Shape the graph when the domain needs a specific ontology, terminology, or summary configuration. Apply governance before an application retrieves production context.

Graph search is part of the Retrieve stage. Graph reads and CRUD are also documented under Working with Graphs, starting with searching the graph.

The graph scope remains part of the application design. User graphs support user and thread workflows. Shared Context Graphs addressed with graph_id support customer, account, project, product, and business-domain context.