Cortex

Companion projects: cortex-beam-abstain — community-trained retrieval abstention model for RAG systems zetetic-team-subagents — specialist Claude Code agents Cortex orchestrates with automatised-pipeline — automated 11-stage pipeline (findings → PRs) that Cortex drives via run_pipeline prd-spec-generator — stateless reducer that turns a feature description into a 9-file PRD (consumes Cortex memory + the pipeline's graph intel)

Claude Code forgets you every time you close the tab. Every architecture decision you explained. Every debugging session where you traced a bug through four layers of abstraction. Every "remember, we decided to use event sourcing, not CRUD" correction. Gone. Next session, you're a stranger to your own tools.

Cortex is a persistent memory engine for Claude Code built on computational neuroscience. It remembers what you worked on, how you think, what you decided and why — not as a text dump shoved into context, but as a living memory system that consolidates, forgets intelligently, and reconstructs the right context at the right time.

It runs entirely on your machine: PostgreSQL + pgvector, a 22 MB embedding model, no LLM in the retrieval loop, no data leaving localhost.