Cortex v1.2 adds LLM enrichment, Q&A with citations, and conflict resolution
Cortex is a local memory layer built for OpenClaw agents, designed to prevent context loss during compaction. The project recently reached 10 GitHub stars and has progressed from v1.0 to v1.2 within a week, with the developer using it daily with two agents.
New features in v1.2
- LLM-augmented enrichment enabled by default: When importing files, Cortex now uses Grok to enrich extracted facts with context like relationships, classifications, and provenance. The entire enrichment pipeline costs less than a dollar per month. You can disable it with
--no-enrichfor pure offline mode. - Question answering with citations: The new
cortex answercommand lets you ask questions and receive synthesized answers with citations back to original memories. It includes built-in prompt injection defense to prevent imported content from hijacking responses. - Deduplication and conflict resolution:
cortex cleanup --dedup-factsfinds near-duplicate facts and supersedes older ones.cortex conflicts --resolve llmdetects contradictions and auto-resolves them using an LLM, maintaining an audit trail of changes and reasons. - Unified configuration:
cortex config doctorshows exactly what's configured, where each value comes from (default, environment variable, flag, or config file), and what's missing. - Intent-based search pre-filtering: Search now classifies query intent (lookup, temporal, relational, etc.) and pre-filters results by fact type before scoring. For example, "when did I deploy v2?" prioritizes temporal facts, while "who works on XXX?" prioritizes relationship facts.
Upcoming development
The developer is currently dogfooding v1.3, which adds scoped views for multi-agent setups and an Obsidian connector that syncs vaults into Cortex as a searchable knowledge layer. The Obsidian connector is available in the repository but hasn't been audited yet.
Installation
Install via Homebrew: brew install hurttlocker/cortex/cortex
Or via ClawHub: clawhub install hurttlocker-cortex
📖 Read the full source: r/openclaw
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