What is pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for PULSE8.ai Cortex, a knowledge system that stores information as Markdown files and builds search and relationship maps from them. It includes a Python web application, a search service, and interfaces for connecting other tools.

Use it to develop, run, configure, search, ingest data into, and test the Cortex application and its file-based knowledge vault.

It explains the repository layout, configuration names, and essential commands so an agent can work in the project without guessing how its parts fit together.

How synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault configures C

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 974 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 974 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00974	$0.00974
Opus 5.5	$0.00390	$0.00390
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00195	$0.00195
Haiku 4.5	$0.00097	$0.00097

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 20d80ee5c55d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `cortex-api` | REST endpoints, curl, FastAPI routes |

AGENTS.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — PULSE8.ai Cortex

Agent-native knowledge OS on Markdown: typed graph (NetworkX), full-text search (QMD), MarkItDown compiler, MCP + REST. No database — everything is files under the vault directory.

Repository map

Path	Purpose
`cortex/`	Python application (FastAPI, MCP, graph, search, compiler, auth)
`scripts/`	`start.sh`, `stop.sh`, `serve.py`, `bulk_ingest.sh`, `env_check.sh`
`docker/`	QMD container (`docker/qmd/`)
`tests/`	Pytest suite
`example_vault/`	Sample vault for local dev
`docs/`	Deployment guides, design specs
`.cursor/skills/`	Project Cursor skills (load for deep workflows)

Environment variables

Two naming layers:

Layer	Example	Used by
`.env` / Compose	`VAULT_DIR`, `VAULT_RAW_DIR`, `VAULT_WIKI_DIR`, `LLM_API_KEY`, `AUTH_METHOD`	`scripts/start.sh`, `docker-compose.yml`
Python `CORTEX_*`	`CORTEX_VAULT_PATH`, `CORTEX_VAULT_RAW_DIR`, `CORTEX_VAULT_WIKI_DIR`, `CORTEX_LLM_API_KEY`	`cortex/config.py` (`CortexSettings`)

scripts/env_check.sh applies defaults, resolves CORTEX_* aliases, and writes .env for Docker.

See .env.example and cortex/config.py for the full list. Never commit .env or secrets.

Essential commands

# Dependencies
uv sync --all-extras

# Start stack (QMD + Cortex)
./scripts/start.sh
./scripts/stop.sh

# Cortex only (external QMD)
./scripts/start.sh --cortex-only

# Dev server without Docker
CORTEX_MCP_TRANSPORT=http CORTEX_VAULT_PATH=./example_vault uv run python scripts/serve.py

# Tests
uv run pytest tests/ -v

# Bulk ingest (no server required)
./scripts/bulk_ingest.sh ./my-papers/

Network endpoints

Service	URL
Cortex REST	`http://localhost:8420/api/v1/`
Cortex MCP	`http://localhost:8420/mcp/`
QMD search	`http://localhost:3100/`
OpenAPI	`http://localhost:8420/docs`

Cursor skills

Load the master skill first, then the sub-skill for your task:

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 92 lines · 974 tokens per session scan A 20d80ee5c55d

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pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 974 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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