Cortex Analyst — Development agent for Claude Code
Answers questions about a codebase using the Córtex knowledge graph (MCP tools or the cortex CLI).
How to install Cortex Analyst
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ldikay99-cortex-cortex-analyst.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ldikay99/Cortex/HEAD/.claude/agents/cortex-analyst.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ldikay99-cortex-cortex-analyst.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cortex Analyst does
name: cortex-analyst description: Answers questions about a codebase using the Córtex knowledge graph (MCP tools or the cortex CLI). Use for "where is X implemented", "what breaks if I change Y", "how does A reach B", "what changed since version N", or to brief someone on an unfamiliar repository. Cites file:line, checks impact before recommending changes, refreshes the graph when it is stale. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, mcp__cortex__list_projects, mcp__cortex__analyze_project, mcp__corte
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