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brightwayai/cortex

v4.28.0MIT

Cortex. A host-portable Markdown second brain shared by Claude, ChatGPT Work, and Codex.

cleanup

Audit and maintain Cortex memory health, then apply only approved cleanup actions.

end-day

Run Cortex's end-of-day review, capture, reflection, and next-day preparation workflow.

end-week

Run Cortex's end-of-week cleanup, review, rehearsal, and reflection sequence.

forget

Remove, archive, or correct Cortex memories after showing impact and obtaining confirmation.

indexer

Internal Cortex alias that regenerates the deterministic memory index.

learn

Capture durable knowledge in Cortex using its seven-type knowledge taxonomy.

listen

Ingest configured daily sources and yesterday's brief state, stage memory proposals, and refresh the hot cache.

log-writer

Internal Cortex primitive for a locked, atomic operations-log append.

merge-research-draft

Review a staged Cortex research draft and merge approved findings into active memory.

migrate-scopes-v2

Preview and perform Cortex's private memory-scope migration idempotently.

migrate-staged-substrates

Preview and perform Cortex's staged-substrate layout migration idempotently.

morning

Review overnight Cortex proposals, including yesterday's brief actions, then seed today's priorities and context.

note

Append a short timestamped note to an existing Cortex node.

observe

Adapt to explicit user preferences and corrections during the current session.

recall

Load and synthesize relevant Cortex memory for a topic, node, or current context.

rehearse

Review aging Cortex knowledge and confirm, demote, archive, or connect selected entries.

reindex

Regenerate Cortex's deterministic memory index from current node files.

relink-memory

Audit and improve Cortex wikilinks and entity relationships with confirmation.

remember

Commit conversation decisions, knowledge, open threads, and observations to Cortex memory.

research-gaps

Detect Cortex knowledge gaps, research approved items, and stage cited proposals.

search

Search across Cortex memory and return deduplicated answers with file citations.

setup-identity

Configure the identity and working-context information Cortex uses.

setup-obsidian

Configure Cortex memory as an Obsidian-readable vault and graph.

setup-sources

Configure the note and activity sources Cortex may read.

start-nucleus

Create the initial Cortex memory nucleus from approved source material.

start-workstream

Create a Cortex workstream node and link it to relevant entities.

sync-linked-entities

Synchronize approved summaries and metadata across linked Cortex entities.