Cortex-OS is a production-grade, voice-controlled AI operating assistant designed to move beyond chat and into real-world execution. It is not a chatbot — it is an intent-to-action system that listens, understands, decides, and acts across your operating system, files, web, tools, and personal knowledge.
Cortex-OS is a modular AI platform that converts human intent into real actions.
You speak naturally:
“Open my project folder, scrape openai.com and email me the summary.”
Cortex-OS:
- Understands your intent
- Plans the task
- Executes real OS actions
- Scrapes the web
- Sends an email
- Logs everything
- Learns from you
Today’s assistants only respond.
Cortex-OS executes.
| Traditional Assistants | Cortex-OS |
|---|---|
| Chat only | Voice + OS execution |
| No memory | Persistent personal memory |
| No control | Full desktop automation |
| No learning | Procedural intelligence |
| No trust | Safety & verification layers |
This is the missing layer between humans and machines.
- Digital overload
- Manual repetitive work
- Fragmented productivity tools
- Context loss across tasks
- Lack of real OS-level automation
Cortex-OS is designed as a closed-loop cognitive execution system.
It does not stop at answering — it perceives, reasons, acts, verifies, and learns.
The system listens continuously through the LiveKit audio pipeline.
- Live microphone audio is streamed in real time
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD) removes silence
- Noise cancellation filters background disturbances
- Audio frames are forwarded to the speech-to-text engine
Goal: convert raw human speech into structured intent.
- Streaming transcription using Whisper-style models
- Partial chunks enable low-latency responses
- Echo-guard logic prevents feedback loops
Output Example: open my desktop and list files
Cortex-OS extracts meaning from text.
- Detects action verbs
- Identifies entities (files, apps, URLs)
- Injects relevant personal context
Example: Intent: list_directory, Entity: Desktop
Complex commands are decomposed into ordered execution steps.
User command: Scrape openai.com and email me the summary
Generated plan:
- scrape_page(openai.com)
- summarize(text)
- send_email(summary)
Each step is executed using real system tools.
| Category | Tools |
|---|---|
| OS | open_file, list_directory |
| Web | scrape_page, search |
| send_email | |
| Browser | open_url, search_google |
All actions are logged and verified.
Cortex-OS builds personal intelligence:
- Long-term user memory
- Workflow patterns
- Knowledge embeddings
This allows proactive behavior instead of repeated instruction.
Before risky execution:
- Path validity is checked
- Destructive commands are blocked
- OS operations are sandboxed
The system evolves by observing patterns:
- Creates procedural shortcuts
- Builds user-specific workflows
- Improves automation accuracy
Results are delivered via voice, and the assistant returns to listening — forming a continuous intelligence loop.
This is not chat automation.
This is a cognitive operating system.
| Layer | Stack |
|---|---|
| Voice | LiveKit |
| LLM | OpenAI Realtime |
| Backend | Python |
| Config | Pydantic v2 |
| Logging | Structured JSON Logs |
| Memory | mem0 |
| OS Tools | Native OS subprocess |
| RAG | FAISS / Qdrant |
| API | FastAPI (planned) |
| Tool Orchestration | LangGraph |
Cortex-OS uses Mem0 as its long-term intelligent memory layer to give the assistant persistent, contextual understanding that extends beyond single interactions.
Mem0 (“mem-zero”) is a universal, self-improving memory layer designed to augment AI agents with persistent contextual memory — enabling AI systems to remember user preferences, past interactions, and session history over time. It goes beyond in-session context windows by storing and retrieving salient facts and behavioral patterns that are relevant across conversations and tasks.
Large language models (LLMs) are stateless by default: they process each request without inherent memory, meaning users must repeat information across queries. Mem0 addresses this limitation by acting as an externalized memory store that:
- Remembers user preferences and history across sessions
- Reduces redundant context to lower token usage and cost
- Enables continuity in multi-step tasks and workflows
- Improves personalization and relevance in repeated interactions
- Supports structured memory retrieval through semantic indexing and embedding search
Mem0 achieves this with an adaptive, production-ready architecture that is designed for scalable integrations with AI applications.
Mem0 leverages a two-phase memory pipeline:
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Extraction Phase
Incoming conversation text is analyzed to pull out important facts, summaries, and entities worth storing. -
Update Phase
New facts are compared against existing stored memories. Only relevant, non-redundant information is added or used to update memories.
This approach keeps the memory store compact, relevant, and efficient — enabling fast retrieval and cost savings in downstream reasoning.
Integrating Mem0 into Cortex-OS gives the assistant:
- Long-term continuity: Knowledge persists across sessions even after restarts
- User-specific personalization: The assistant remembers preferences like favorite apps or workflows
- Semantic retrieval: Queries are answered with context that spans past interactions
- Lower costs: Only relevant memory is used during prompt construction
- Richer experiences: The AI becomes predictable, reliable, and context-aware
Mem0 offers both a cloud-hosted platform and open-source versions:
- Self-Hosted (Open Source): Run your own Mem0 stack with full control over data
- Managed Platform: Enterprise-grade memory with hosting, analytics, and security
This approach turns Cortex-OS into a truly contextual, adaptive AI assistant that remembers, not just responds.
- GUI desktop application
- Mobile companion app
- Skill marketplace
- Plugin architecture
- Enterprise team mode
- Cloud-hosted memory
- Audit & compliance layer
We welcome developers who believe AI should work, not talk.
Steps:
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch
- Add tools / memory / RAG modules
- Submit a clean PR
Cortex-OS is not a tool.
It is the operating system for human intelligence.