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The point

An agent roster is only as trustworthy as its narrowest description: what it reads, what it may propose, and where it must stop.

A catalog, not a mascot

Cortex ships a library of 10,000+ skills generated from archetypes × the Risk/Cyber/GRC taxonomy, with hand-curated flagships on top. Before meeting ten of them, meet the two rules every one of them obeys.

The catalog

Breadth from generation, depth from curation

Generated skills

10,000+

archetypes × taxonomy, expanded automatically

Curated flagships here

10

contracts transcribed from the shipping definitions

Out-of-scope domains — HR, legal, sales, procurement — are deliberately not registered. Breadth is worthless if it wanders off the platform's ground truth.

Stated limit

Prompts stay server-side. What this walkthrough shows is the part that matters for trust: the contracts.

The two leashes

InvariantWhat it means
Runs as the calling userAn agent can never read data you couldn't read yourself — permissions are yours, not the platform's.
Proposes, never mutatesEvery action is a proposal awaiting a human decision, recorded on the tamper-evident generation ledger.

Refused

No agent in the catalog is exempt from either rule — not the flagships, not the generated ten thousand.

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