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name: cortex-visualize

description: "Launch the interactive Cortex neural-graph visualization (the cortex-viz MCP). Use when the user says 'show visualization', 'show me the graph', 'visualize memories', 'show memory map', 'open neural graph', 'cortex-visualize', or when a visual overview of the memory system, codebase graph, or session trace would help."

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# Visualize — Interactive Neural Graph (cortex-viz)

## Keywords

visualize, graph, neural graph, memory map, show memories, visual overview, entity graph, methodology graph, codebase graph, session trace, show profile, galaxy

## Overview

Launch the interactive browser-based neural graph served by the **cortex-viz**

MCP. It reads Cortex's shared PostgreSQL store (read-only) plus your `~/.claude`

session history and wiki, and opens six reading angles over the same data:

**Trace** (default), **Graph** (the galaxy), **Knowledge**, **Wiki**, **Board**,

and **Pipeline**.

**Use this skill when:** the user wants a visual overview, is exploring the

knowledge/codebase graph, or needs to present or screenshot Cortex's state.

- **Requires:** the `cortex-viz` MCP installed alongside Cortex. If its tools are

- not available, tell the user to install cortex-viz

- (https://github.com/cdeust/cortex-viz).

+ **Requires:** the `cortex-viz` MCP. If its tools are not available, tell the

+ user to install cortex-viz (https://github.com/cdeust/cortex-viz).

+ **Works without Cortex:** cortex-viz does NOT require the Cortex memory

+ engine to be useful. When Cortex's PostgreSQL is unreachable (or

+ `CORTEX_VIZ_NO_DB=1` is set) the server starts in no-DB mode: the **Trace**

+ view — the per-session execution drill over `~/.claude` session logs + git —

+ is fully live, and the five DB-backed views (Graph, Brain, Knowledge, Wiki,

+ Board) appear greyed out with an install pointer instead of erroring. So

+ launch it freely even if the user hasn't installed Cortex.

## Workflow

### Launch the neural graph

```

cortex-viz:open_visualization({})

```

Or filter to a specific domain:

```

cortex-viz:open_visualization({ "domain": "cortex" })

```

Opens in the browser on a local 127.0.0.1 port. Features:

- **Trace** — the live execution drill: domain → session → ordered

prompt → action → file chain → a file's AST symbols, impact neighbourhood,

and git history.

- **Graph** — the galaxy: every project as a node cloud (setup → tools →

files → discussions → memories → AST symbols), with cross-project shared-code

and impact edges.

- **Knowledge / Board / Wiki / Pipeline** — memory cards, the consolidation

kanban, the browsable wiki, and the domain→stage Sankey.

- **Interactive** — click any node for a full detail panel, drag to explore,

scroll to zoom; filter by kind / domain / AST edge.

### Get graph data (programmatic)

For custom visualization or analysis without opening the browser:

```

cortex-viz:get_methodology_graph({ "domain": "<optional filter>" })

```