Cortex

Cortex is a Memory stores & recall skill for AI agents, published by danielmiessler in the LifeOS repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates Cortex D (62/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search knowledge, what do we know about, archive, harvest, knowledge status, develop note, add to knowledge, ingest, contradictions, knowledge graph, retrieve, mine conversations, distill, weekly digest, cortex digest, context search, prior work, recall, remember, previous sessions, context recovery, what did we do, find session, search history, resume, pick up where we left off, cold start, yesterday's work, last week, the one about. NOT FOR published-content semantic search across blog/newsletter/X/LinkedIn, or one-shot URL/YouTube ingestion via the Arbol harvester pipeline.

Grade
D
Quality
62 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
19,005

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Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.

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