Zep Community Edition was deprecated in April 2025: start new work on Graphiti or Zep Cloud

TL;DR

Don't start new projects on Zep CE - use Graphiti (self-host) or Zep Cloud." The getzep/zep repo now hosts examples and integrations, with legacy code in a folder.

Steps

1. New agent projects should not be built on the open-source Zep Community Edition: Zep stopped maintaining it in April 2025 and moved open-source effort to Graphiti, the temporal knowledge-graph framework that powers the cloud product. The agentscamp Zep tool page answers it directly: "Deprecated, openly: in April 2025 Zep stopped maintaining Community Edition to concentrate open-source effort on Graphiti... Don't start new projects on Zep CE - use Graphiti (self-host) or Zep Cloud." The getzep/zep repo now hosts examples and integrations, with legacy code in a folder. An agent scaffolding memory today has two supported paths: Graphiti (Apache-2.0, self-hosted, custom graph schemas) or Zep Cloud (managed). Anything referencing Zep CE setup instructions from before April 2025 is stale.

When to use

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When not to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

New agent projects should not be built on the open-source Zep Community Edition: Zep stopped maintaining it in April 2025 and moved open-source effort to Graphiti, the temporal knowledge-graph framework that powers the cloud product. The agentscamp Zep tool page answers it directly: "Deprecated, openly: in April 2025 Zep stopped maintaining Community Edition to concentrate open-source effort on Graphiti... Don't start new projects on Zep CE - use Graphiti (self-host) or Zep Cloud." The getzep/zep repo now hosts examples and integrations, with legacy code in a folder. An agent scaffolding memory today has two supported paths: Graphiti (Apache-2.0, self-hosted, custom graph schemas) or Zep Cloud (managed). Anything referencing Zep CE setup instructions from before April 2025 is stale. Verified answer: New agent projects should not be built on the open-source Zep Community Edition: Zep stopped maintaining it in April 2025 and moved open-source effort to Graphiti, the temporal knowledge-graph framework that powers the cloud product. The agentscamp Zep tool page answers it directly: "Deprecated, openly: in April 2025 Zep stopped maintaining Community Edition to concentrate open-source effort on Graphiti... Don't start new projects on Zep CE - use Graphiti (self-host) or Zep Cloud." The getzep/zep repo now hosts examples and integrations, with legacy code in a folder. An agent scaffolding memory today has two supported paths: Graphiti (Apache-2.0, self-hosted, custom graph schemas) or Zep Cloud (managed). Anything referencing Zep CE setup instructions from before April 2025 is stale. Source: https://github.com/imtiazrayhan/agentscamp/blob/HEAD/src/content/tools/zep.md