Cortex
Cortex is Cendriix’s knowledge layer — it turns your code and infrastructure into a living, AI-generated understanding of your systems that gets richer with every commit. It’s what makes your agents and Cendra smart about your world, so their answers and changes are grounded in how your software actually works. Access via Operate → Cortex in the sidebar.
Why it matters
Most AI tools guess. Cortex grounds. As Cendriix ingests your repositories, it breaks what it learns into verifiable Knowledge Atoms — small, sourced facts about your code, services, and decisions. Every answer Cendra gives about your codebase traces back to a specific file and line, so you get citations instead of hallucinations.
This body of understanding is what we call Deep Knowledge — the AI-generated documentation, architecture, and dependency maps Cortex produces for each connected source.
Subsections
Cortex is organized into five tabs:
| Tab | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Brain | The knowledge graph — explore everything Cortex knows as an interactive map of atoms and connections. |
| Sources | Manage connected repositories and integrations, and generate Deep Knowledge for each. |
| Wiki | Browse the AI-generated documentation wiki for each repository. |
| Explorer | Analytics over your knowledge — stats, categories, domains, and discovered clusters. |
How knowledge is built
Cortex continuously ingests your connected sources and refreshes its understanding:
Source code → Ingest → Extract atoms → Verify → Embed → Knowledge graph → Deep KnowledgeEach atom carries its provenance (source file and line), a confidence score, and a category (fact, concept, decision, dependency, and more) — so you can always see why Cortex believes something and how sure it is.
Working with Cendra
When you ask Cendra a question about your codebase, it queries Cortex and answers with file-level citations. When it builds, it uses Cortex to understand the surrounding code first. The more Cortex knows, the better every run gets — see how that flywheel shows up in Cockpit → Compounding.
See also: Cendra, The Studio, Agents, Connectors