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cortex-contributing is a skill for Cursor from synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault. It costs 36 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A contribution guide for the Cortex codebase, covering tests, adding tools that connect an AI agent to other systems, project conventions, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when running Cortex’s test suites, adding an MCP tool—a standard way for an AI agent to call external tools—updating API routes, or maintaining agent documentation.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the repository’s expected file locations, commands, registration steps, and testing practices so changes fit the existing project.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault configures →

not rated 15repo 3mo ago A scan 36 tokens original Apache-2.0
View source ↗ synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault synpulse8.com
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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.

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

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00494
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00198
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 74bf6e4b12ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex-contributing 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 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.

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.

.cursor/skills/cortex-contributing/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Contributing to Cortex

Development setup

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Example vault: example_vault/ (or set VAULT_PATH).

Test layout

Area Path
API tests/test_api.py
MCP tests/test_mcp.py
Feedback tests/test_feedback.py
Teams tests/test_teams_notify.py
Graph tests/test_graph*.py

Run focused: pytest tests/test_feedback.py -v

Adding an MCP tool

  1. Implement handler in cortex/mcp/tools.py
  2. Register in cortex/mcp/http_server.py and cortex/mcp/server.py
  3. Add REST route in cortex/api/routes.py if mirrored
  4. Tests in tests/test_mcp.py (+ test_api.py if REST)
  5. Update .cursor/skills/cortex-mcp/reference.md and README MCP table
  6. Mention in AGENTS.md skill index if user-facing

Code conventions

  • Match existing logging: logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
  • Config via get_settings() from cortex/config.py
  • Vault paths always relative to vault root
  • Minimize scope; no drive-by refactors

Agent documentation

File Purpose
AGENTS.md Always-on repo map for agents
.cursor/skills/cortex/SKILL.md Master router skill
.cursor/skills/cortex-*/SKILL.md Topic skills

Do not install project skills under ~/.cursor/skills-cursor/ (reserved for Cursor built-ins).

Pre-commit / CI

Follow project hooks if configured. Fix test failures before claiming done.

  • Master index: cortex
  • Full spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-29-cursor-skills-design.md
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. 2mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 74bf6e4b12ef

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cortex-contributing 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 36 tokens to every session and 494 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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