cortex-broadcast auto

Trigger: After a Raw has been distilled, to fuse it into related existing pages ("broadcast", "compound this into the vault"), or auto-dispatched at the end of the distill flow.

llm-wiki style broadcast ingest — conversational update of related existing pages when a Raw has been distilled. Use when the user says "broadcast", "跑 broadcast", "compound this into the vault", "merge pending-merge", "process broadcast queue", or when cortex-distill invokes broadcast inline after Step 8 commit (automatic dispatch for every new / pending-merge Raw).

cortex-distill auto

Trigger: When the user wants to distill Raw session records into Notes/Projects ("提煉", "整理 raw", "distill").

Distill raw session records into refined Notes and Projects. Use when the user says "提煉", "整理 raw", "distill", or "distill raw records".

cortex-evolve auto

Trigger: When the user wants to save knowledge to the vault ("存到 cortex", "記一下"), or when the session-suggest hook recommends saving.

Save knowledge to the cortex vault. Use when the user says "存到 cortex", "記一下", "save to cortex", "記到筆記", "cortex evolve", or when the session-suggest hook recommends saving content. Handles Notes and Projects.

cortex-query auto

Trigger: When the user explicitly asks to search the vault ("查 cortex", "之前有記過", "/cortexes:query"), or when using-cortex routes a request here after one of its four signals. Not for general or merely difficult questions.

Search and retrieve content from the cortexes vault — the user's external memory. Use when the user explicitly asks to search or recall the vault ("查 cortex", "之前有記過", "cortex 裡有沒有", "check my notes", "what did I write about", `/cortexes:query`), or when the using-cortex skill routes a request here after one of its four prior-context signals. Do not use for general questions, for fresh work with no prior-context signal, because a question is merely hard or technical, or after the user has opted out of the vault.

cortex-takeoff auto

Trigger: When context is running low and work needs to hand off to a later session ("交接", "takeoff", "交棒"). Produces temporary hand-off batons — one per work line — that are never committed or indexed.

Create or resume a session takeoff baton — a curated, ephemeral, git-ignored hand-off note that lets the next Claude session continue a long-running task. A repo can hold several batons at once, one per work line (topic). Use when the user says "交接", "takeoff", "交棒", "context 快滿了交接給下個 session", "hand off to next session", "/cortexes:takeoff", "takeoff resume", or "takeoff done". The baton is scaffolding, not knowledge: it is never committed, distilled, broadcast, or indexed.

using-cortex auto

Trigger: Four signals only — an explicit request, a reference to earlier work ("上次的", "之前那個", "we discussed"), a topic SessionStart actually listed, or resuming a session. Routes those to cortex-query, answers directly otherwise, and stays off once the user picks "直接開始工作".

Use when the user asks to check the cortex vault, refers to earlier work ("last time", "that project", "we discussed", "之前那個", "上次的"), asks to resume something from a previous session, or names a topic the SessionStart hook listed for this vault. Routes the request to the cortex-query skill so the answer is grounded in the user's own notes instead of re-derived. Do not use for general questions, for fresh work with no prior-context signal, or when the user has asked to skip the vault.

/cortexes:broadcast

Run broadcast on a distilled Raw — update related existing pages conversationally

/cortexes:distill

Distill raw session records into refined Notes and Projects

/cortexes:evolve

Save knowledge to the cortex vault (Notes or Projects) and update index

/cortexes:genesis

Initialize cortex vault — set up config, vault structure, and rebuild index

/cortexes:query

Manually search the cortex vault (Notes, Projects, Raw) for existing notes

/cortexes:takeoff

Create, resume, or clear a session hand-off baton (one per work line)