cortex-configure

A settings tool for adjusting Cortex after setup, using ready-made presets or individual options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select Full, Essential, or Minimal behavior, change the auto-save threshold, set restoration limits, and turn statusline or awareness features on or off.
Why use it?
It avoids changing each setting by hand and lets you choose how much automatic saving, context restoration, and status information Cortex uses.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 784 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 $0.00010 $0.00784
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00078

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2581a862711c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex-configure 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-configure/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cortex Configure

Adjust Cortex settings after initial setup.

Configuration Options

Presets

Offer quick presets for common configurations:

Full - All features enabled

  • Statusline: enabled
  • Auto-archive: enabled
  • Auto-save threshold: 70%
  • Awareness: enabled

Essential - Core features only

  • Statusline: enabled
  • Auto-archive: enabled
  • Auto-save threshold: 75%

Minimal - Commands only

  • Statusline: disabled
  • Auto-archive: disabled
  • Auto-save threshold: 85%

Individual Settings

Allow fine-tuning of specific settings:

  1. Auto-save Threshold (0-100%)

    • When to automatically save context
    • Default: 70%
  2. Restoration Token Budget (number)

    • Max tokens for restoration context
    • Default: 2000
  3. Restoration Message Count (number)

    • Number of messages to restore
    • Default: 5
  4. Statusline Enabled (true/false)

    • Show Cortex in status line
    • Default: true
  5. Awareness (section)

    • Injects user/time/date context at session start and after context clear

    Step 1: enabled (true/false) — ask first, before anything else:

    • If currently enabled: "Keep enabled", "Disable"
    • If currently disabled: "Enable", "Keep disabled"
    • If the user disables awareness, skip userName and timezone questions entirely.

    Step 2: userName — only ask if awareness is enabled:

    • If already set (show current value): "Keep current", "Change" (ask for new name), "Turn off" (set null)
    • If not set: "Set a name" (ask for name string), "Skip" (keep null)
    • IMPORTANT: Never pre-fill or guess the user's name. Always let the user type it.

    Step 3: timezone — only ask if awareness is enabled:

    • "Auto-detect" → set null (uses system timezone)
    • "Custom" → ask user for IANA timezone string (e.g. "America/New_York")
    • "Off" → set "off" (omit Date/Time lines entirely, only show User if set)
    • IMPORTANT: Never pre-fill a timezone value. Let the user choose and type.

Usage Flow

  1. Ask user what they want to configure:
    • Apply a preset
    • Adjust specific settings

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 2581a862711c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortex-configure is a skill published in the GitHub repository hjertefolger/cortex (174 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 784 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.

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