methodology

A command for viewing the user's cognitive-methodology profile and reasoning patterns for the current work area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve a domain-specific methodology summary, rebuild stale profiles, or list the domains with available profiles.
Why use it?
It shows the existing profile instead of requiring the agent to guess how the user's reasoning preferences have been recorded.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cdeust/cortex/methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/Cortex
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 183 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00011 $0.00183
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00092
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00018

Measured yesterday against content hash 714cdc8cf354, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodology scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/methodology.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Use the methodology-agent:query_methodology tool with the current working directory to retrieve the user's cognitive profile for this domain.

Display the context field as a summary paragraph, then offer:

  1. Run methodology-agent:rebuild_profiles if the profile seems stale or the user wants a fresh analysis
  2. Run methodology-agent:list_domains to show all detected domains
  3. If the companion cortex-viz MCP is installed, run its get_methodology_graph tool for visualization data (it was extracted from Cortex in v3.21.0 and is not part of this server)

If no profile exists yet, run methodology-agent:rebuild_profiles first to build one from session history.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 14 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 714cdc8cf354

Subscribe to this mod's changes

methodology is a command published in the GitHub repository cdeust/Cortex (71 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 183 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.