install-cortex

install-cortex is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dinglebear-ai/cortex. It costs 51 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A setup and repair tool for Cortex, including its server, client-only hosts, authentication, persistent Docker Compose services, and agent connection checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when provisioning Cortex, choosing authentication or model-server options, enabling persistent services, or checking connectivity.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and configure the infrastructure needed for Cortex to run and for coding agents to connect to it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the install-cortex plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when provisioning Cortex, choosing authentication or model-server options, enabling persistent services, or checking connectivity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dinglebear-ai/cortex/install-cortex
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dinglebear-ai/cortex --skill install-cortex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install install-cortex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00367
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured 18d ago against content hash 8b379a2e2c20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-cortex 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 18d 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.

plugins/install-cortex/skills/install-cortex/SKILL.md · 24 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 18d ago Changed 8b379a2e2c20
  2. 21d ago First seen · 24 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 98c797c9da05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install-cortex is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/cortex (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 367 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.