cortex-deploy

cortex-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault. It costs 43 tokens per session (480 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment skill for running Cortex with Docker Compose and configuring its environment variables. It also covers syncing files to an EC2 server, restarting containers, and reading service logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate or check environment settings, start Cortex with Docker Compose, verify health, deploy vault files to EC2, restart the service, inspect logs, or configure bulk-ingest mounts.
Why use it?
It gathers the setup and troubleshooting details needed to run Cortex locally or on a server. It helps avoid configuration mistakes involving ports, mounted directories, credentials, and container paths.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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/synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault/cortex-deploy
Any agent
npx skills add synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault --skill cortex-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00043 $0.00480
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00240
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 4d ago against content hash 67021bc7c8b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex-deploy 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 4d 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.

curl http://localhost:8420/api/v1/health
.cursor/skills/cortex-deploy/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Cortex deploy

Quick start

./scripts/env_check.sh    # interactive .env generation
docker compose up -d
curl http://localhost:8420/api/v1/health

Docker Compose (docker-compose.yml)

Service Port Notes
cortex 8420 API + MCP HTTP
volumes vault, optional /ingest CORTEX_VAULT_PATH, bulk source dir

Env mapping uses CORTEX_ prefix in compose (e.g. CORTEX_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL, CORTEX_API_KEY).

Environment dual naming

Settings accept either:

  • VAULT_PATH or CORTEX_VAULT_PATH
  • API_KEY or CORTEX_API_KEY
  • TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL or CORTEX_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL

scripts/env_check.sh writes unprefixed names; compose often maps to CORTEX_*.

Production sync (example)

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/key" ./vault/ user@host:~/vault/
ssh user@host 'cd app && docker compose restart cortex'

Host paths in bulk-ingest must exist inside the container (mount at /ingest).

Logs

docker logs cortex 2>&1 | tail -100
# Access lines → stdout (uvicorn.access)
# App logs → stderr (cortex.*)

Health checks

  • GET /api/v1/health
  • Graph: GET /api/v1/graph/stats (with auth if enabled)

Teams notifications

Optional TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL + TEAMS_APP_BASE_URL for feedback cards (cortex/notify/teams.py). Validated in env_check.sh.

  • Auth: cortex-auth
  • Compiler bulk paths: cortex-compiler
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. 4d ago First seen · 67 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 67021bc7c8b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortex-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository synpulse8-opensource/pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 480 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.

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