cortex-navigate-knowledge

# Navigate Knowledge — Graph Exploration and Causal Chains ## Keywords knowledge graph, relationships, connections, causal chain, how are these related, what connects, drill down, explore, navigate, entity graph, trace, cause and effect, related to, linked to, co-access, cluster ## Overview Cortex maintains a knowledge graph of entities (people, technologies, concepts, files) and their relationships extracted from memories. This skill lets you traverse that graph — follow causal chains, explore co-access patterns, drill into fractal memory clusters, and understand how different pieces of knowledge connect. **Use this skill when:** You need to understand relationships between concepts, trace cause-and-effect chains, or explore a topic area systematically. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Trace Causal Chains Follow entity relationships through the knowledge graph: ``` cortex:get_causal_chain({ "entity": "PostgreSQL", "direction": "both", "max_depth": 3 }) ``` Returns a chain of entities connected by typed relationships (causes, uses, depends_on, related_to, etc.). Direction can be `"forward"` (effects), `"backward"` (causes), or `"both"`. ### Step 2: Navigate Co-Access Paths Find memories frequently accessed together using Successor Representation: ``` cortex:navigate_memory({ "memory_id": <starting_memory_id>, "depth": 2, "max_nodes": 20 }) ``` Returns a graph of memories connected by co-access frequency — revealing implicit relationships that aren't in the exp...