Because “as I was saying…” shouldn’t be a workflow.
i remember why you opened that terminal.
DESIGNED WITH CARE. AND A LITTLE CAFFEINE.
✳Made for Claude Code✳Local SQLite storage✳Zero API calls100% CORTEX LABS ENERGY ↗
01 / MORE THAN A PRETTY ICON
Big little superpowers.
6 ways to make your day easier. Yes, we got a little carried away.
06GOOD IDEAS IN ONE PRODUCT
ϟSUPERPOWER / 01
Progressive recall
3-layer retrieval (facts → summaries → full content) stops at the cheapest layer that answers — facts cost 5–15 tokens.
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⌘SUPERPOWER / 02
Knowledge graph
Auto-extracted structured facts with entity normalization, deduplication, and multi-hop traversal across connections.
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✳SUPERPOWER / 03
Code graph
Tree-sitter indexes symbols across 7 languages — ~100 tokens to look one up vs 1000+ to read the file.
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And a few more tricks.
Go on. Open one.
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Smart auto-capture
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Hooks capture results from your tools and a background daemon saves them in about 0.3 seconds.
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Self-organizing clusters
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Memories group into semantic sub-graphs with human-readable labels — browse topics top-down before drilling in.
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Decay & temporal awareness
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Unused memories fade, contradicted facts lose confidence, and timestamps keep recall fresh instead of stale.
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The whole story, for the curious.
A closer look at what makes Cortex tick.
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Cortex gives Claude Code persistent memory through a 3-layer retrieval system that returns only what's relevant, using ~66% fewer tokens on average. It automatically extracts structured facts from your memories and code into a queryable knowledge graph, with entity normalization and multi-hop traversal. Everything stays local — SQLite + Python, zero API calls, zero cost. It's the memory the rest of the family plugs into, and the project that named the lab.
02 / LET’S MAKE THIS OFFICIAL
Are we your type?
A few practical details. No awkward first-date questions.
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THE COMPATIBILITY CHECK
A little space. A lot of potential.
For Claude Code. Made to feel right at home.
SMALL LAB BIG CARE
Works with
Claude Code, via MCP
Runs on
macOS, Linux, Windows · Python 3.11 to 3.13
Price
Free — zero API calls, zero cost
Dashboard
A web UI at localhost:37800
Your data
Stays local, in a file on your machine
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YOUR NEXT FAVORITE TOOL IS RIGHT HERE.
Give your next session a head start.
One install. A lot fewer “let me explain this again” moments.
Cortexv0.8.0
