The Cortex Curator window. The agent answers a question about a client project from the project's own records, and names the meeting note the answer came from.
Why agents guess
Agents do not fail by forgetting. They fail by filling every gap with something plausible, and you cannot tell which half of the advice was built on air. The workaround people invent is the one long thread they are afraid to close.
What it does
New discussion
The tile guy came back at $6,200.
18:40
That puts the remodel at $24,800, which is $800 over the $24,000 ceiling.
The ceiling was set in Remodel budget on Jul 30. The other four quotes, $18,600 together, are in Contractor quotes from Aug 21.
18:40
cortex proposed 4 changes on this file
Accept allReject all
Start date10/14/2026
Cabinet delivery10/12/2026
tile_order_by: 2026-09-23
9tile_order_by: 2026-09-30
Kitchen Remodel4 changes
Set `start_date` to "2026-10-14"Dale moved the start on the Sep 9 call.Applied
Set `cabinet_delivery` to "2026-10-12"Rejected
Set `end_date` to "2026-12-18"Applied
Set `tile_order_by` to "2026-09-30"Applied
Grandpa Leif died of a heart attack at 58, not old age.
21:15
Then "no family history" is wrong, and three records rest on it: Cholesterol Screening, put off to 50; Life Insurance Application, sent in March; and Anders Brandt, 52 and skipping his physical.
The correction to Family History is ready to review.
21:15
health/Family History.md
7Heart:
No family history of heart disease.
8Grandpa Leif, father's side: heart attack at 58.
9The old line came from the 2019 intake form at Harbour Clinic.
Kitchen Remodel
Project
Start date10/14/2026
Budget ceiling24000
projects/Kitchen Remodel.md
---tags:
- Project
status: committed
start_date: 2026-10-14
budget_ceiling: 24000
contractor: '[[Okafor Build]]'
---
Gut it and keep the window over the sink.
How it works
One record of your life and work, in plain files you own. What happened, what you are working toward, and what is true now, all linked to each other. The screen you read it on is the screen you change it from.
What is true now
Kitchen
Room
ConditionStripped to the studs
What happened
2026-08-27 1600 Contractor Walkthrough
Meeting
RoomKitchen
What you are working toward
Pick the Tile
Task
Came from2026-08-27 1600 Contractor Walkthrough
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