cortex

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add io-github-danielblomma-cortex -- npx -y @danielblomma/cortex-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-danielblomma-cortex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@danielblomma/cortex-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Summary

Local repo context for coding assistants with semantic search and graph relationships.

Questions

cortex is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @danielblomma/cortex-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add io-github-danielblomma-cortex -- npx -y @danielblomma/cortex-mcp

Run: codex mcp add io-github-danielblomma-cortex -- npx -y @danielblomma/cortex-mcp

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