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.
• Slack and CLI native — interact from Slack on your phone or a terminal on your laptop.

Quickstart

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

See Quickstart for detailed setup instructions, or browse the navigation for full documentation.