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Cortex — a persistent memory engine for Claude Code built on computational
neuroscience. Twenty biological mechanisms (rate-distortion forgetting,
predictive-coding gating, retrieval-induced reconsolidation, pattern
separation, sleep-cycle consolidation, emotional-valence weighting, and
others) implemented over PostgreSQL + pgvector. Forty-seven MCP tools,
nine automatic hooks, runs entirely on the user's machine. Forty-one
academic citations across the cognitive-science and information-retrieval
literature anchor the algorithms. Part of the ai-architect ecosystem
(https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents,
 https://github.com/cdeust/automatised-pipeline,
 https://github.com/cdeust/prd-spec-generator).

Copyright (c) 2025 Clément Deust

This software is the independent work of Clément Deust. It was developed
outside any employment relationship and is not affiliated with, endorsed
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The neuroscience and information-retrieval algorithms encoded in this
software are derived from published academic work cited in `docs/science.md`
and inline in the source via `# source:` annotations (Friston on predictive
coding, Anderson & Lebiere on rate-distortion forgetting, Nader et al. on
retrieval-induced lability, McClelland et al. on consolidation, and others).
The MIT license covers this implementation; it does not assert ownership
over the underlying mechanisms, which remain attributable to their
original authors and publications.