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Cortex

Autonomous agent system for long-running projects. You give it a mission with a success criterion, and it plans the work, dispatches a pipeline of agents to execute it, keeps a structured log of progress in your repo, and reviews itself before each commit — across days or weeks of unattended work.

Why Cortex?

Cortex is designed around four failure modes of long agent runs:

  • Context rot — durable project state lives as plain files in your repo, not chat history that accumulates and decays.
  • Execution drift — every task carries a verifiable success criterion, checked at completion.
  • Context window limits — work is partitioned across agent pipelines, each with bounded scope and fresh context.
  • Single-perspective bias — adversarial review is a built-in pipeline stage, not a polite suggestion.

Features

  • Mission-driven task system — hand off a goal; Cortex decomposes it into tracked tasks with priorities, dependencies, and verifiable done-conditions.
  • Multi-agent thread pipelines — long jobs run as a relay of focused agents instead of one overloaded session.
  • Structured project log — every project keeps mission, roadmap, status, experiments, knowledge, patterns, and decisions as plain files.
  • Cron and interval scheduling — schedule Cortex to scan, digest, or sweep on a recurring basis.
  • Self-evolving skills — Cortex drafts new skills when it catches itself repeating patterns.
  • One agent across your machines — connect any Mac, Windows, or Linux machine via cortex-client.
  • Web, native app, chat, and terminal access — use the browser workbench, Linux/macOS/Windows desktop app, Android app, Slack, Feishu, or TUI against the same server.

Ways to use Cortex

Interface Best for Guide
Browser workbench Access from an existing browser without installing a client Browser Access
Desktop app Native Linux, macOS, or Windows workbench Desktop and Android Apps
Android app Mobile sessions, threads, tasks, projects, and approvals Desktop and Android Apps
Slack or Feishu Chat-driven operation and notifications Quickstart
TUI Full-screen terminal operation CLI Reference

Quickstart

npm install -g @cortex-agent/server
cortex init
cortex daemon

See Quickstart for detailed server and chat-platform setup. After the server is running, use Browser Access to expose the Web workbench or Desktop and Android Apps to connect a native client.