0.23.02026-07-02

Removed

• The remaining internal-tool-specific MCP output filters from the
• Illustrative internal-looking strings in test fixtures and skill docs:
• The `dsm`/`diskstation` and `srm`/`router manager` synonym groups, and

0.22.02026-07-02

Removed

• `cortex-weekly` skill, its `/cortex:weekly` command, and the
• `cortex-distill` Step 5.5 ("Write Summary File") and Step 5.6 ("Judge
• The `weekly` block from `genesis`'s generated config template (`gitlab_username`,

0.21.12026-06-30

Fixed

• README: the cortex-vec install command used `$(claude plugin root cortex)`,

0.21.02026-06-30

Added

• `/cortex:takeoff` — a session hand-off "baton". When a long session's

0.20.02026-06-22

Changed

• Weekly Source F (ChatPlus) now collects self-authored contributions via

Added

• Optional `weekly.chat_username` config (defaults to `weekly.gitlab_username`)

0.19.02026-06-12

Fixed

• Distill/broadcast queue detection no longer trusts a body-substring scan

Added

• `cortex-vec` subcommands for position-anchored vault-maintenance queries,

Changed

• `cortex-distill` Step 1, `cortex-broadcast` Step 2, and the SessionStart

0.18.12026-06-09

Fixed

• `rtk_filter` no longer crashes the SessionEnd filter pipeline when no TOML

Added

• Developer test gate: `scripts/run-checks.sh` (ruff + both pytest suites),

0.18.02026-06-04

Added

• SessionEnd hook now detects cortex maintenance-pipeline sessions

0.17.02026-06-02

Added

• SessionEnd filter: `syno-naxos` `exec_command` outputs are unwrapped from
• SessionEnd filter: `robinhood` `codesearch` (shares the zoekt result shape)

Fixed

• `_MCP_REGISTRY` now matches by server-token substring instead of a full

0.15.12026-05-28

Fixed

• `cortex-vec`: `--repo X` no longer excludes cross-repo `Notes/` pages.

0.15.02026-05-27

Added

• `cortex-weekly`: GitLab activity sweep. The weekly report now captures MR

Fixed

• `weekly-compiler` agent now resolves ChatPlus DM participants (adds

0.14.22026-05-27

Fixed

• `cortex-weekly`: resolve ChatPlus DM participants via

Added

• `cortex-weekly`: Runtime Requirements + graceful-degradation policy.

0.14.12026-05-26

Changed

• Wikilink graph-boost reworked from an additive score boost into a
• Config key `retrieval.graph_weight` (additive strength) replaced by

Fixed

• Test isolation: a `conftest` autouse fixture pins

0.14.02026-05-26

Added

• **Hybrid retrieval** — `cortex-vec search` now fuses BM25 + vector
• BM25 index persisted at `~/.cortex/bm25/`, kept in lockstep with the
• `cortex-vec rebuild --bm25-only` — rebuild just the BM25 index from
• **Retrieval eval harness** — `cortex-vec eval run` compares
• Optional, **default-off** retrieval enhancements (each independently

Fixed

• `cortex-vec search` reports the vector cosine similarity (0–1) as
• `cortex-vec search` degrades to BM25-only when `OPENAI_API_KEY` is

Notes

• `cortex-vec` package bumped to 0.4.0; new deps `rank-bm25`, `jieba`,
• With all enhancements off, `cortex-vec search` behaves as before
• Precise-term dedup scoring (boosting a low-cosine but exact-term

0.13.02026-05-24

Changed

• `cortex-distill` Step 2 (has_insight) and Step 3.3 (placement) now
• `cortex-distill` Step 9 drops the (y/n/l) broadcast prompt and

0.12.02026-05-22

Added

• `weekly.repo_issue_map` config field (1:N repo → Workplus issue
• `cortex-distill` Step 5.6: judges which mapped issue a Raw
• `cortex-weekly` Step 5b: surfaces vault-only Workplus-tracked
• Per-surface description budgets in `references/draft-template.md`:

Changed

• `cortex-weekly` Source A now reads `issue:` from Summary
• `cortex-weekly` Step 4 prefers issue-aware MR ↔ Summary join,
• `cortex-weekly` Step 5 classification: `repo_issue_map` is a
• `cortex-weekly` Same-title MR dedup: when all cluster MRs share
• `[chat]` / `[mail]` brackets in `inbound.` no longer wrap the
• Same-topic chat thread dedup rule documented: 2+ threads on the

Notes

• See `docs/specs/2026-05-22-weekly-skill-revision-design.md` for
• All new fields are optional; existing `~/.cortex/config.json`

0.11.12026-05-18

Fixed

• `cortex-distill` Stage 1 `has_insight()` no longer gates on the
• `cortex-distill` Step 3.2 dedup query text picker correspondingly

Notes

• Existing Raws marked `(no insight)` under the old rule are NOT
• Spec: see `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-17-distill-phase1-extraction-log-design.md`

0.11.02026-05-12

Added

• `cortex-distill` Step 5.5: writes a per-Raw summary sidecar at
• New top-level vault directory `Summary/` mirrors `Raw/`'s date

Changed

• `cortex-weekly` Source A reads from `Summary/` instead of `Raw/`.
• `cortex-weekly` Step 4 dedup against GitLab MRs (Source B) now
• `cortex-weekly` Step 2 (Run Distill) now documented as a hard

Notes

• Raw remains immutable. This change adds an additional derived
• No backfill: only Raws distilled after 0.11.0 ships get a Summary.
• `cortex-broadcast` and `cortex-query` are unaffected — both still

0.10.32026-05-08

Fixed

• `cortex-weekly` (Source D, Source E): username matching is now strictly
• New optional config key `weekly.css_username` (default: same as
• `cortex-weekly` (Source F, Source G): chat/mail bullets now wrap

0.10.22026-05-08

Changed

• `cortex-weekly` (Source F — ChatPlus): DM threads no longer auto-drop —
• `cortex-weekly` (Source G — MailPlus): 1-on-1 threads attribute to
• `cortex-weekly` redaction rule scoped to customer info / external personal
• `cortex-weekly`: same-title MR dedup. Within `fix.`, `feat.`, or `inbound.`,

Notes

• Past weekly reports are not regenerated.
• Plugin consumers who relied on the strict-redaction rule (e.g., publishing

0.10.12026-05-06

Changed

• `cortex-vec`: summary model upgraded from `gpt-4o-mini` to
• `cortex-vec/store.py`: `_generate_summary()` now uses
• `cortex-vec` bumped to `0.3.1`.

Notes

• Existing Chroma `::summary` entries are not regenerated automatically;
• The embedding model (`text-embedding-3-small`, 1536 dim) is unchanged;

0.10.02026-05-04

Added

• **Weekly report — ChatPlus source** (`skills/cortex-weekly`): Source F
• **Weekly report — MailPlus source** (`skills/cortex-weekly`): Source G
• `agents/weekly-compiler` allowed-tools extended with

Changed

• `references/draft-template.md` documents the inbound shapes for
• Cross-source dedup rule added to Step 4: chat/mail entries that merely
• Frontmatter description for `cortex-weekly` lists ChatPlus and MailPlus

Fixed

• `references/draft-template.md` previously cross-referenced "Source C

0.9.22026-04-28

Added

• **Proactive cortex triggering** — three-layer enforcement so the model

0.9.12026-04-21

Changed

• Transcript filter renders Raw/ with plain-text section markers

0.9.02026-04-17

Added

• **Transcript filter engine** — TOML-driven pipeline that scrubs session
• Command-specific transcript filters so noisy tool outputs from a given
• Bash volume-analysis helpers for inspecting filter rejection ratios.

Changed

• `Stop` hook now runs the filter pipeline between session capture and Raw

0.8.02026-04-16

Added

• **`/cortex:broadcast` command + `cortex-broadcast` skill** — llm-wiki style
• `distill` gained a *Step 9 — Ask broadcast now?* so a finished distill can
• `evolve` now appends an entry to `log.md` before committing.
• `genesis` creates `log.md` during vault initialization.

Changed

• `distill` upgraded to two-stage assessment with a `pending-merge` outcome

Fixed

• `broadcast`: zero-candidate branch and pending-merge append clarified.
• `distill`: log-append mechanism and interactive outcome mapping clarified.

0.7.02026-04-15

Added

• `/cortex:weekly` aligned to the Friday-meeting cycle with a tighter draft
• `references/draft-template.md` plus a leaner `SKILL.md`.

Changed

• Weekly classifies by **Workplus issue type**, not commit type — matches how
• `distill` removed `distill-state.json`; the `<!-- distilled: -->` marker is

Performance

• `SessionStart` hook defers `Raw/` scanning until the user explicitly picks

Fixed

• Session-start prompt now correctly injects the vault path.

0.6.02026-04-14

Added

• Interactive menu on `SessionStart` with vault status detection (weekly

0.5.02026-04-13

Added

• **Dual-vector embedding** in `cortex-vec` — stores both the raw document
• Bilingual summary generation via `gpt-4o-mini`.
• Search dedup across the two vector spaces.

Changed

• `Weekly/` excluded from the vector index (it's derived output, not source
• Summary prompt switched to Traditional Chinese output for Chinese-context

0.4.12026-04-12

Fixed

• `SessionStart` hook now prompts the model to ask about memory loading in

0.4.02026-04-11

Added

• **`cortex-vec` as a proper Python package** (was an ad-hoc shell script):
• ChromaDB-backed vector store with OpenAI `text-embedding-3-small`.
• `/cortex:query` rewritten around vector-first search with grep fallback.
• `/cortex:distill` gained value assessment and dedup checks.
• `/cortex:evolve` now upserts into the vector store after writing markdown.

Changed

• `SessionStart` hook rewritten as a lazy-loading prompt — memories are
• Switched embedding model from local sentence-transformers to OpenAI

Removed

• Legacy `build-repo-index.sh` script, replaced by `cortex-vec export-repo-index`.
• Old monolithic `cortex-vec` shell script.
• 0.3.x — first `_repo_index.json` for session-start repo lookup.
• 0.2.x — vault structure split into `Raw/`, `Notes/`, `Projects/`, `Weekly/`.
• 0.1.x — initial plugin skeleton with `evolve`, `distill`, and `weekly`