cortex-wiki-author SKILL.md skillA
cortex-wiki-author 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-wiki-author@git:20260408.21f35afPins git:20260408.21f35af 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-wiki-author/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260408.21f35af, committed Apr 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,450 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Author first-class wiki pages (ADRs, specs, file docs, notes) that live alongside Cortex memory. Use when the user says 'this is an ADR', 'document this decision', 'write an ADR', 'add a spec', 'spec this out', 'document this file', 'add a note about', 'link these pages', 'bookmark this as a spec', or when finalizing a design decision that should persist as a human-readable document.
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
# Wiki Author — Long-form Documentation Layer
## Keywords
adr, spec, decision, design doc, rfc, file doc, notes, wiki, documentation, link pages, bidirectional link, supersedes, implements, depends on
## Overview
Cortex's wiki is a Markdown authoring surface for the long-form artifacts that don't fit the thermodynamic memory model: architecture decision records, specs, per-file documentation, and free-form notes. Pages live under `~/.claude/methodology/wiki/` and are **never pruned** — they are first-class authored content, not derived views. Every write also registers a protected pointer memory in PostgreSQL so `recall` surfaces wiki pages alongside regular memories.
**Use this skill when:** the user is making a decision that should persist, finalizing a spec, documenting a file's purpose, or asking for two wiki pages to be linked.
**Do NOT use for:** ephemeral facts (use `remember`), domain profiles (use `query_methodology`), or regenerating documentation from memory (the wiki is authored, not projected).
## Workflow
### Record an architecture decision
```
cortex:wiki_adr({
"title": "Use pgvector for retrieval",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-wiki-author@sha256:68fde7023ef16396The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260408.21f35af, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qi2n6j2vbn5c5fyn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 8, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4450 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- 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_qi2n6j2vbn5c5fyn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/cortex/cortex-wiki-author GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/68fde7023ef1639612f2bb90aac2a42d23adceed074b914dc88cfcd2f9bdc508
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