Cortex

Cortex is a local memory and map of a codebase for coding agents. It is being built to run beside Claude Code and Codex through their official hooks, to watch what agents read, edit and test, to learn which code belongs together from structure, git history and finished work, and to hand the next task the exact code and project facts it needs. Two rules shape the design: stay silent when unsure, and keep everything on the user's machine.

Status

Cortex is in early development and does nothing useful yet. Today the cortex binary has one command, cortex version. This page lists a feature only once it works and has tests, and a number only once it has been measured.

Install

There is no release yet. To build from source you need Rust (rustup reads the pinned toolchain from rust-toolchain.toml):

cargo install --path crates/cortex-cli

Use

cortex version

What has been measured

Nothing yet. Results will appear here only from the evaluation in this repository, with how they were measured and how many runs they rest on.

Build and test

cargo install --locked cargo-deny
cargo xtask verify

cargo xtask verify runs every check a change must pass: formatting, the rules for how crates may depend on each other, the shared lint settings in every crate, the tags that mark where each product guarantee is enforced, clippy, the tests and the dependency licence and advisory checks. CONTRIBUTING.md explains the layout and how to send a change.

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.