cortexa — Elixir

Git-inspired context management for LLM agents — COMMIT, BRANCH, MERGE, and CONTEXT operations over a persistent versioned memory workspace.

Based on the paper "Git Context Controller: Manage the Context of LLM-based Agents like Git" (arXiv:2508.00031).

Install

Add to your mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:cortexa, "~> 0.1.1"}
  ]
end

Quick Start

alias Cortexa.{Workspace, Models}

# Create workspace
ws = Workspace.new("/tmp/my-project")
ws = Workspace.init(ws, "Build an AI agent")

# Log observations
{ws, _ota} = Workspace.log_ota(ws, "User asked about weather", "Need to call API", "Called weather API")

# Commit milestone
{ws, _commit} = Workspace.commit(ws, "Implemented weather lookup")

# Branch for exploration
ws = Workspace.branch(ws, "alt-approach", "Try different API")
{ws, _ota} = Workspace.log_ota(ws, "Testing new API", "Seems faster", "Switched to new API")
{ws, _commit} = Workspace.commit(ws, "New API integration")

# Merge back
{ws, _merge} = Workspace.merge(ws, "alt-approach", nil, "main")

# Retrieve context
ctx = Workspace.context(ws, "main", 3)
IO.puts(Models.context_summary(ctx))

API

`Cortexa.Workspace`

Function	Description
`new(root)`	Create workspace handle
`init(ws, roadmap \\ "")`	Initialize `.GCC/` directory
`load(ws)`	Attach to existing workspace
`log_ota(ws, obs, thought, action)`	Append OTA record
`commit(ws, contribution, prev \\ nil, roadmap \\ nil)`	Create milestone commit
`branch(ws, name, purpose)`	Create isolated branch
`merge(ws, branch, summary \\ nil, target \\ "main")`	Merge branch into target
`context(ws, branch \\ nil, k \\ 1)`	Retrieve hierarchical context
`switch_branch(ws, name)`	Switch active branch
`list_branches(ws)`	List all branches

Functional Style

The Elixir implementation uses a functional approach — workspace state is an immutable struct returned from each operation:

ws = Workspace.new("/tmp/project") |> Workspace.init()
{ws, _} = Workspace.log_ota(ws, "obs", "thought", "action")
{ws, _} = Workspace.commit(ws, "milestone")

License

MIT