/using-cortex
Use when starting any task or answering any non-trivial question in a cortex-enabled session — establishes that the cortex vault is the user's external memory and should be consulted BEFORE guessing, asking clarifying questions, or doing fresh exploration. Trigger
$ npx -y skills add XBlueSky/cortexes --skill using-cortex --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/using-cortex
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Use when starting any task or answering any non-trivial question in a cortex-enabled session — establishes that the cortex vault is the user's external memory and should be consulted BEFORE guessing, asking clarifying questions, or doing fresh exploration. Trigger
Personal knowledge vault plugin for Claude Code — session recording, memory distillation, and hybrid semantic + BM25 retrieval.
Repo: XBlueSky/cortexes
Other skills on cortex.
- /cortex-broadcast
llm-wiki style broadcast ingest — conversational update of related existing pages when a Raw has been distilled. Use when the user says "broadcast", "跑 broadcast", "compound this into the vault", "merge pending-merge", "process broadcast queue", or when cortex-distill invokes
Open skill - /cortex-distill
Distill raw session records into refined Notes and Projects. Use when the user says "提煉", "整理 raw", "distill", or "distill raw records".
Open skill - /cortex-evolve
Save knowledge to the cortex vault. Use when the user says "存到 cortex", "記一下", "save to cortex", "記到筆記", "cortex evolve", or when the session-suggest hook recommends saving content. Handles Notes and Projects.
Open skill - /cortex-query
Search and retrieve content from the cortex vault — the user's external memory. Use (1) when the user says "查 cortex", "之前有記過", "cortex 裡有沒有", "check my notes", "what did I write about", AND (2) PROACTIVELY — before answering any non-trivial question about ongoing projects,
Open skill - /cortex-takeoff
Create or resume a session takeoff baton — a curated, ephemeral, git-ignored hand-off note that lets the next Claude session continue a long-running task. Use when the user says "交接", "takeoff", "交棒", "context 快滿了交接給下個 session", "hand off to next session", "/cortex:takeoff",
Open skill