Presence
The Orb
An ambient presence across the whole OS. It listens, it speaks, and it shows you what the agents are doing — while work runs, activity satellites orbit it. One glance at the orb and you know the state of your system.
Agentic Operating System
CORTEX
A desktop environment where AI agents plan, remember, and act.
What it is
One operating surface.
Cortex fuses three things that usually live in separate apps — an orchestrator brain, persistent memory, and a voice — into a single desktop environment. You don't open a chatbot. You inhabit an OS where agents do the work.
Orchestrate
A central brain routes tasks to specialist agents and keeps them on mission.
Remember
File-based memory that persists across sessions — context that compounds.
Speak
A living voice interface. Talk to your OS; it talks back and takes action.
The modules
Everything attaches to the spine.
Six parts of one system. Hermes — the messenger — runs the spine that carries every request, reply, and result between them.
Voice
Voice loop
Talk to your OS. A wake word summons it; it answers — and then it acts. Ask for something and the loop closes: heard, understood, done, reported back in its own voice.
Companions
The Pantheon
The agents are companions — specialists, each bearing a constellation sigil, ranked in three tiers. You don't manage prompts; you dispatch companions suited to the work.
Olympian
tier i — the principalsDeep-reasoning agents trusted with whole missions. They plan, delegate, and answer for the outcome.
Daimon
tier ii — the intermediariesFocused specialists that own a domain — research, code, markets — and report upward.
Automaton
tier iii — the handsSmall, fast workers that execute single tasks — fetch, file, format — and return.
Every message between you and the companions passes through Hermes — the messenger runs the spine.
Memory
Neural Map
Memory you can walk through. A full-tab, living knowledge graph grown from file-based memory that persists across sessions — what the agents learn compounds instead of resetting.
Operations
Mission Control
One board for everything in flight — tasks, todos, and the agents running them. What's queued, what's active, what's done: a single view, not five tabs.
Routing
OmniRoute
Any request, the right mind. Cortex routes each task to the model or agent best suited to it — Claude, GLM, Grok, or a local model — without you switching apps or thinking about it.
STATUS — IN ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
cortex is a working build, not a shipped product
modules land on the spine as they're proven — no releases yet
the build log lives at github.com/GitJoe345