help

A help guide for Cortex, a tool that stores coding decisions, conventions, lessons, and other project knowledge between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to store coding conventions, architecture decisions, bug lessons, and other notes, or to check Cortex's memory and connection status.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat project context or search through old conversations. Developers can save information and recall it later using ordinary questions or commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/adityavg13/cortex/help
Any agent
npx skills add AdityaVG13/cortex --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AdityaVG13/cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 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 $0.00028 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash 3c1cd293878b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

help 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.

plugins/cortex-plugin/skills/help/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Cortex Help

Cortex remembers your decisions, conventions, and lessons across sessions. Here's how to use it:

Quick Start - Try These Now

  1. Store a coding convention:

    Remember: "Always use path.join() for file paths, never hardcoded / or \\"
    
  2. Recall a past bugfix:

    What did I learn about race conditions in async UI code?
    
  3. Check your brain status:

    /cortex:status
    

How to Store Knowledge

Just tell Cortex what you want it to remember:

  • Conventions: "Remember: we use conventional commits (feat:, fix:, docs:)"
  • Decisions: "Store: chose SQLite over Postgres for local-first storage"
  • Bugfixes: "Lesson learned: NTFS file locking requires LockFileEx on Windows"
  • Architecture: "Decision: API uses REST + JSON, not gRPC"

Cortex will automatically store it with context.

How to Recall Knowledge

Ask naturally:

  • "What conventions do we have for error handling?"
  • "Why did we choose Tokio over async-std?"
  • "Remind me about the Windows path issue"

Commands

  • /cortex:status - Show brain status (memories, daemon, mode)
  • /cortex:recall <query> - Search your memories
  • /cortex:store <decision> - Store a decision with context

Modes

  • Solo mode (default): Your brain is local at ~/.cortex/
  • Team mode: Connect to a shared server with CORTEX_URL config
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 · 56 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 3c1cd293878b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository AdityaVG13/cortex (9 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 392 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 2026-08-31.

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