# Cortex App

The Cortex App is the Next.js product experience over the memory plane, where you capture
sources, browse memory, share selectively, run agents, and read dreams. It is built on the
Sui stack and lights up live infrastructure when you wire it.

```bash
pnpm dev
# open http://localhost:3000
```

## What's inside

<Tabs stateKey="app-area">
  <Tab title="Capture">
    Bring anything into memory, including notes, documents, links, audio, images, and video.
    Each source is stored and distilled into durable [memories](/concepts/memory-model) with
    tags, confidence, and provenance.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Knowledge base">
    Browse and organize what Cortex remembers. Memory views expose the
    [derived reads](/concepts/memory-model#derived-views) (tags, digest, timeline, and
    connections) so you can navigate your graph instead of scrolling a transcript.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Sharing">
    Send specific memories to a recipient by identity. Content is
    [Seal-encrypted](/concepts/encryption) before delivery and scoped to the share. See
    [Sharing & Permissions](/concepts/sharing). Inbox and outbox track what came in and what
    went out.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Agents & loops">
    The Agents view is a pipeline room: spawn specialist agents, assign tasks, and run
    [agentic loops](/loops/overview) over one shared memory graph. Each task has a thread with
    its observations and outputs.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Dreams">
    Read memory-derived [dreams](/concepts/dreams), which synthesize across patterns and weak
    signals, and trigger consolidation sweeps that keep the
    [elastic brain](/concepts/elastic-brain) sharp.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Capture, recall, act

::::steps

##### Capture

Drop a source into the app. It becomes durable, encrypted memory.

##### Recall

Memory surfaces verified-first wherever you need it, in views, prompts, or agent steps.

##### Generate

Turn memory into prompts and loop specs without hand-writing them.

##### Coordinate

Let specialist agents run iterative research, planning, and review over the shared graph.

##### Dream

Read higher-order synthesis the graph surfaces on its own.

::::

## Develop without credentials

:::note
Cortex is built on the Sui stack. For development, an empty `.env.local` keeps the app on
the mock path, fully usable for building and testing. Configure Privy, Sui, Walrus, Seal,
and MemWal to go live. See [Configuration](/getting-started/configuration).
:::

## Keep reading

* The same memory plane for external agents: [MCP Overview](/mcp/overview).
* The infrastructure behind durable memory: [Infrastructure](/infrastructure/overview).