Cortex
AI agents,
accountable.
A governed platform 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.
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Reviewed work. Auditable choices.
Most agent tools ask you to trust a black box. Cortex does the opposite. It makes the work checkable. The three guarantees below aren't features bolted on; they are how every task moves from start to finish.
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 platform. Either can review, approve, escalate — no separate tool stack.
How it works
One platform. 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, and a named reviewer. It's a real folder on disk, not a row in a queue. An agent must claim it before any work starts, so there is always a name attached and nothing runs in the background without a trace.
Progress is journaled as it happens
As the agent works, it appends to the task's journal: the plan, the decisions, what it tried, what it ran, what broke. The journal is written in the moment, not reconstructed or summarised after the fact, so the reasoning behind the work is preserved exactly as it occurred.
A reviewer gives a verdict at the gate
Before a task can be marked done it hits a gate: a human or a trusted agent reviews the work and either approves it or rejects it with findings. A rejection isn't advisory. It sends the task back into tracked rework with the findings attached, and the cycle is recorded. No one can approve their own work.
The ledger holds the truth
Approved tasks leave an immutable record on disk: what was built, who reviewed it, the findings raised, and when it cleared. Because state lives in the file system, a clean checkout is the ground truth: nothing is edited retroactively, and there is no database to silently drift out of sync with reality.
Status
Version 2, building in public.
Cortex v2 powers all Nethric group work daily. We build it in public: the v2 skeleton is live on GitHub, and everything Nethric ships runs through it. Full general availability is still in progress.
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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