cortex-recall SKILL.md skillA
cortex-recall from cdeust/cortex is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-recall@git:20260327.890ae58Pins git:20260327.890ae58 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/cortex
- Path
skills/cortex-recall/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260327.890ae58, committed Mar 27, 2026
- Size
- 3,635 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Search and retrieve memories from Cortex persistent memory. Use when the user asks 'what did we decide about X', 'do you remember', 'what was the fix for', 'find that thing about', 'search memories', 'what do we know about', 'have we seen this before', or when you need context about past decisions, patterns, bugs, or architecture choices. Also use proactively when working on something that likely has relevant historical context.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Recall — Retrieve from Persistent Memory ## Keywords recall, remember, search, find, what did we, do you remember, what was, have we seen, look up, retrieve, past decision, previous fix, history, what do we know, search memory, find memory, related memories ## Overview Retrieve relevant memories using Cortex's 6-signal WRRF (Weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion) retrieval engine. The system automatically classifies your query intent and adjusts retrieval weights — semantic queries emphasize vector similarity, temporal queries emphasize recency, causal queries traverse the knowledge graph. **Use this skill when:** You need context about past work, decisions, patterns, or fixes. Also use proactively when starting work on a topic that likely has stored context. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Formulate the Query Write a natural language query. The intent classifier handles routing: - **Semantic**: "How does the authentication system work?" - **Temporal**: "What did we work on last week?" - **Causal**: "What caused the deployment failure?" - **Entity**: "Everything about PostgreSQL in this project" - **Multi-hop**: "How does the memory gate relate to consolidation?" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-recall@sha256:850705cc79bdf065The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260327.890ae58, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 27, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cdeust/cortex · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g7hcvczb624nwqh6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/cortex/cortex-recall GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/850705cc79bdf065fad8ecdfc1bd00c838f40a6dccb18ae5e8014bbad2f98222
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