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Dated notes on what the products ship. Each entry names a change the app or the CLI already carries and links the surface it touched. Announcements from the Foundation are on cortex.foundation/news.
Cortex Chat, Cortex Code, and Cortex Bot are live — Cortex Foundation announcement

cortex.foundation/news — the 30 August 2026 announcement that Chat, Code, and Bot are live.

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Cortex CLI 0.1.10 · /goal on main
  • /goal — persisted long-horizon objectives with goal.json on the session, an 8-turn budget, evidence-based completion, and a composer chip — merged to the CLI main branch in CortexLM/cli #54. It ships with the next tagged release; cortex upgrade will pick it up. See Goals.
  • One approval path — the permission prompt is the locked inline numbered picker (run once · always allow in this project · edit command · decline), merged in #53. See Modes and permissions.
  • The Designer runtime pack — headless renders of every TUI state at 120×40 — is what the CLI pages now show. The README demo on a green macOS desktop is regenerated from the same chrome.
  • Release: v0.1.10 on GitHub. Update with cortex upgrade.
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Cortex CLI 0.1.8 · 0.1.9
  • /model effort radios — Low, Medium, High, with Tab cycling them; /effort opens the same picker. See Modes and permissions.
  • Alternate screen by default — the TUI takes the full viewport; cortex --no-alternate-screen or [tui] alternate_screen = false stays inline. See The TUI.
  • Welcome splash and empty session — two lines of copy, dropped after the first turn; composer and footer only afterwards.
  • Product-facing outage copy — The coding service is temporarily unavailable, followed by what to do next. MCP connect / drop and sandbox deny paint live rows.
  • Runtime chrome lock — numbered pickers for login, mode, permissions, approvals, and plan confirmation; the footer shows model, mode, and remaining context; markdown tables render as a plus-ASCII grid, code fences get a language tag and line numbers, edit tiles show unified diffs with word-level colour.
  • Model product names everywhere — Cortex Mini 1, Cortex 1, Cortex Max 1.
  • Windows installer detects the CPU architecture correctly under PowerShell 5.1 StrictMode. See Install.
  • Cloud is the default Code runtime for the TUI and cortex exec; This PC and SSH are explicit opt-in through CORTEX_COMPUTER and require an already connected session. See Configuration.
  • Releases: v0.1.8 and v0.1.9.
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Cortex CLI 0.1.7
  • TUI grey chrome lock and the first README hero GIF.
  • CLI builds publish automatically to software.cortex.foundation on each tagged release; cortex upgrade reads the manifest there. See Install.
  • Example WebAssembly plugins drop an unmaintained allocator dependency.
  • Release: v0.1.7 on GitHub.
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Cortex Chat, Cortex Code, and Cortex Bot are live
  • Cortex Chat, Cortex Code, and Cortex Bot are available at cortex.foundation. One account opens all three; there is no second identity.
  • Chat is the assistant for research, writing, and everyday questions, and works before you sign in. See Chat.
  • Code is a coding agent that works inside a repository on an isolated runtime. See Code.
  • Bot is a computer-using agent with its own desktop. See Bot.
  • Announcement: cortex.foundation/news/cortex-chat-code-bot.

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How this page is kept

An entry names a change the product already ships, with a date, and links the surface. Product previews stay labelled as previews. The inference Platform API is not announced here until that product exists — see Coming soon.

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Related

  • System status — outages and maintenance, which are not changelog entries.
  • CLI — install and update, including cortex upgrade.
  • Platform API — why no inference API is announced here yet.