Context management
GraphRAG
Graph-augmented RAG retrieval infrastructure (adjacent, not memory product)
Open sourceself-hostable
★ 36,620 on GitHub · +6 today · last commit Nov 9, 2026
What it is
Our note
WATCH — README now says largely in MAINTENANCE MODE, no new PRs/features as of late 2026; LazyGraphRAG unimplemented. Superseded signal for a blog story.
At a glance
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Business model
- Open source
- License
- MIT
- Self-hosting
- Yes, can be self-hosted
- Access
- Python library + CLI
- Architecture
- knowledge graph RAG
GitHub activity
This product has a public repository, so we read it nightly from the GitHub API. Stars measure developer attention, not quality or market share.
“A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system” (repository description)
- Stars
- 36,620
- Change since last reading
- +6
- Forks
- 3,878
- Open issues
- 64
- Last commit
- Nov 9, 2026 (1 days ago)
- License (GitHub)
- MIT
Links and sources
- Official sitemicrosoft.github.io/graphrag
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/microsoft/graphrag