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Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault MCP Server

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Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 71 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

Agent-native knowledge OS on Markdown: typed graph, hybrid search, and compiler over MCP.

Installs per day peak 103 · avg 16 · -67% w/w
a month agotoday
71
Installs / week
pypi · pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault
15
Stars
0 open issues
27 Jul 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 19 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

    const child = spawn(QMD_BIN, args);

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault -- uvx pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault": {
      "args": [
        "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault]
command = "uvx"
args = ["pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault": {
      "args": [
        "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault": {
      "args": [
        "pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: CORTEX_VAULT_PATH (Absolute path to the Markdown vault directory the server reads and writes.), CORTEX_LLM_API_KEY (Optional OpenRouter (or compatible) API key. Only needed for LLM cross-referencing during compile; file conversion and search work without it.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault?
Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault was installed 71 times last week.
How do I connect Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault?
The pypi package pulse8-ai-cortex-knowledge-vault was installed 71 times in the last week. Week over week that is -67%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Pulse8 AI Cortex Knowledge Vault open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 15 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.