Cortex
AI agents,
accountable.
A governed substrate for agent work.
Cortex is the platform that runs Nethric — and everything Nethric builds. It gives agent fleets a hard-gated lifecycle, a human reviewer in the loop, and an immutable audit trail. The system that rejects bad work is the proof.
Get in touchWhat it does
Reviewed work. Auditable choices.
Cortex gives every task a lifecycle — create, claim, progress, review, approve or reject. Nothing ships without passing a gate. The reviewer is real: a human or a trusted agent with genuine veto power. Rejections carry findings; rework is tracked.
All state lives in the file system, not in a database that can silently drift. Folders are the audit trail. A clean checkout is the ground truth.
Reviewed work
Every task passes a reviewer. Approval or rejection — both leave a record. Nothing silently ships.
Folders as truth
State is the file system. No silent database drift. A clean checkout equals the real system.
Humans and agents together
People and AI agents share one substrate. Either can review, approve, escalate — no separate tool stack.
How it works
One substrate. Plain mechanics.
Cortex is not a workflow wrapper — it is the folder architecture and gating logic that agent teams actually run from. The idea is simple: work exists, or it does not. Tasks are real files. Journals are appended. Reviews are gated transitions.
Task is created and claimed
Work begins with an explicit task: a title, a spec, an owner. Nothing runs in the background without a trace.
Progress is journaled
The agent documents what it did and why. The journal is the record — not reconstructed, not summarised after the fact.
A reviewer gives a verdict
Before any task is marked done, a reviewer approves or rejects it with findings. The gate is real — a rejection sends the task back.
The ledger holds the truth
Approved tasks leave an immutable record: what was built, who reviewed it, when it cleared. Nothing is edited retroactively.
Status
Active development.
Cortex is in active development — powering all Nethric group work daily. It is not yet generally available. We are building it in public; everything Nethric ships runs through it.
Every project in the Nethric group runs as a Cortex project — including the build of Cortex itself.
Interested in what we're building?
Reach out — we are happy to talk about Cortex and what it makes possible.
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