A routing guide for PULSE8.ai Cortex, a knowledge-vault system with searchable documents, a graph, REST and MCP interfaces, and Docker deployment. An MCP interface lets tools such as Cursor or Claude Desktop connect to it.

Use it when working in the Cortex repository on vault files, document ingestion, search, graph or compiler behavior, MCP connections, REST APIs, authentication, feedback, or Docker and EC2 deployment.

It directs work to the correct instructions for the vault, search, authentication, APIs, MCP setup, or deployment instead of editing the wrong part of the system.

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/.cursor/skills/cortex/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

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

Made for: Cursor.

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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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

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	$0.00044	$0.00622
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00249
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00124
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00062

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1466bdcf5a51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex 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.

| REST API, curl | `cortex-api` |

.cursor/skills/cortex/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

PULSE8.ai Cortex (master)

Read AGENTS.md for repo map and commands. This skill routes you to the right sub-skill.

Architecture

MCP client (Cursor, Claude Desktop, …)
        │  MCP HTTP or stdio
        ▼
Cortex :8420  ── REST /api/v1/  +  MCP /mcp/
  │ AuthMiddleware (REST) / ApiKeyGuard or OIDC (MCP)
  │ GraphEngine + Compiler + VaultWatcher
  ▼
QMD :3100  (BM25 / hybrid search)
        ▼
Vault (bind-mounted)
  wiki/ raw/ agents/ sessions/ daily/ feedback/
  .cortex/  (graph.json, index.md, manifests, log.md)

Vault layout (high level)

Folder	Role
`wiki/`	Compiled knowledge articles
`raw/`	Unprocessed sources (PDF, txt, …)
`agents/`	Agent definitions
`sessions/`	Session notes
`daily/`	Daily notes
`feedback/`	User/agent feedback on vault quality
`.cortex/`	Graph JSON, index, ingest manifests, audit log

Intent router

Load one sub-skill before editing code in that area:

You want to…	Sub-skill
Run Docker, EC2, logs, `.env`	`cortex-deploy`
Note layout, frontmatter, paths	`cortex-vault`
MCP tools, Cursor MCP setup	`cortex-mcp`
REST API, curl	`cortex-api`
Ingest, compile, bulk pipeline	`cortex-compiler`
Graph, search, context window	`cortex-graph-search`
API key, Entra OIDC	`cortex-auth`
Feedback, Teams webhook	`cortex-feedback`
Change Python, tests, new tools	`cortex-contributing`

Audience

Operators: cortex-deploy, cortex-vault, cortex-mcp, cortex-compiler (run/ingest/debug).
Contributors: cortex-contributing plus the domain skill you are changing.

Rules

Do not implement across modules without reading the relevant sub-skill.
MCP handlers live in cortex/mcp/tools.py; REST in cortex/api/routes.py — keep parity when adding features.
Configuration: cortex/config.py (CORTEX_* env prefix).

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 · 67 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 1466bdcf5a51

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortex is a skill published in the GitHub repository synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 622 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

Backend and APIs Memory and context ai-agents docker fastapi karpathy-inspired karpathy-llm-wiki knowledge-base

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pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault: Skill for Cursor