Research Domain
Machine Memory
Cortex: shared durable memory for every agent in the lab — facts, decisions, and context that survive across sessions, served over REST and MCP.
OBSERVEDCURRENT EVIDENCE LEVEL
Research Question
What memory architecture lets many agents share one accumulating body of lab knowledge?
Cortex v2 uses index-first retrieval: qualitative memories are stored as flat Markdown nodes with a deterministic JSON index and weighted graph neighbors, so retrieval stays fast as the knowledge base grows.
It runs as a live service consumed by Remy and by Claude-based tooling via MCP; Harness provides the orchestration and session dashboard on top.