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Mercury Cortex

Give your AI coding assistant persistent project knowledge

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Apache-2.0
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v0.1.2 Aug 10, 2026
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About the startup

Mercury Cortex is an open-source, local-first MCP server that gives AI coding assistants persistent knowledge across your projects. It helps AI search existing code, patterns, and project context so you can reuse what you’ve already built instead of starting from scratch.

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