cortex-visualize

A command for opening an interactive visual view of Cortex’s memory and session data. Cortex is a memory system, and the visualization can show graphs, knowledge, wiki pages, boards, pipelines, and session traces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for opening memory maps, codebase graphs, methodology views, workflow boards, and session-history traces.
Why use it?
It helps developers inspect relationships and activity visually instead of navigating stored records and logs directly.

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/cdeust/cortex-viz/cortex-visualize
Any agent
npx skills add cdeust/cortex-viz --skill cortex-visualize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/cortex-viz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 $0.00082 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c7305759c89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex-visualize 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 2d 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.

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.

skills/cortex-visualize/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visualize — Interactive Neural Graph (hypermnesia-mcp-viz)

Keywords

visualize, graph, neural graph, memory map, show memories, visual overview, entity graph, methodology graph, codebase graph, session trace, show profile, galaxy

Overview

Launch the interactive browser-based neural graph served by the hypermnesia-mcp-viz MCP. It reads Cortex's shared PostgreSQL store (read-only) plus your ~/.claude session history and wiki, and opens six reading angles over the same data: Trace (default), Graph (the galaxy), Knowledge, Wiki, Board, and Pipeline.

Use this skill when: the user wants a visual overview, is exploring the knowledge/codebase graph, or needs to present or screenshot Cortex's state.

Requires: the hypermnesia-mcp-viz MCP. If its tools are not available, tell the user to install hypermnesia-mcp-viz (https://github.com/cdeust/cortex-viz).

Works without Cortex: hypermnesia-mcp-viz does NOT require the Cortex memory engine to be useful. When Cortex's PostgreSQL is unreachable (or CORTEX_VIZ_NO_DB=1 is set) the server starts in no-DB mode: the Trace view — the per-session execution drill over ~/.claude session logs + git — is fully live, and the five DB-backed views (Graph, Brain, Knowledge, Wiki, Board) appear greyed out with an install pointer instead of erroring. So launch it freely even if the user hasn't installed Cortex.

Workflow

Launch the neural graph

mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp-viz_hypermnesia-mcp-viz__open_visualization({})

Or filter to a specific domain:

mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp-viz_hypermnesia-mcp-viz__open_visualization({ "domain": "cortex" })

Opens in the browser on a local 127.0.0.1 port. Features:

  • Trace — the live execution drill: domain → session → ordered prompt → action → file chain → a file's AST symbols, impact neighbourhood, and git history.
  • Graph — the galaxy: every project as a node cloud (setup → tools → files → discussions → memories → AST symbols), with cross-project shared-code and impact edges.
  • Knowledge / Board / Wiki / Pipeline — memory cards, the consolidation kanban, the browsable wiki, and the domain→stage Sankey.
  • Interactive — click any node for a full detail panel, drag to explore, scroll to zoom; filter by kind / domain / AST edge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 0c7305759c89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortex-visualize is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeust/cortex-viz (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 740 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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