# Give Your Coding Agents Your Engineering Judgment

Save the decisions behind your system in Cortex. Your coding agents can retrieve them before they make a change.
A Module stores current knowledge about one part of a system and why.

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### Example Module: coding-standards
Use domain names, explicit errors and behavior tests when changing inspection software.

Name observations, visits and reports consistently. Distinguish access denial from an unavailable connection. Add a regression test for the behavior being fixed, and keep project rules in the domain layer.

## Your Agents Need the Reasons Behind Your System
Your systems carry years of decisions about what matters and why. An agent that cannot see those reasons has to make assumptions. Save that knowledge in Cortex so your team’s agents can retrieve it before they change your system.
[Cortex](https://socra.com/cortex)

## Preserve Decisions as You Work
Explain a constraint or correct a decision as you work. Your agent preserves the standard and its reason in Cortex, ready for the next task.

### Example Module: architecture
Keep project rules in one domain layer shared by interactive requests and background jobs.

The domain layer enforces project boundaries before adapters read or write records. Keep network and storage details outside those rules so an offline client and a server apply the same decisions.

[Modules and dependencies](https://workspace.socra.com/docs/cortex/concepts/modules-and-map)

## Start Each Change with Your Team’s Standards
Ask your agents to retrieve the relevant standards before changing code. You still review and test the result. A Flash returns the Module and the knowledge it depends on.

## See What Cortex Returns
This recorded CLI call retrieves a visit-report Module and its writing prerequisite. The example knowledge is fictional; the retrieval is real.

Recorded November 3, 2026. 2 Modules; 163 tokens in this example.
[Complete recorded CLI output](https://socra.com/evidence/cortex/fieldnote-flash-2026-11-03.txt)
[Connect a coding agent](https://workspace.socra.com/docs/cortex/integrations/coding-agents)

## Share Your Judgment Across the Team
Give your team access to the decisions and reasons it needs. Authorized people and agents can retrieve the same maintained knowledge.

The Fieldnote knowledge and dependencies shown on this page are examples.
[Access and permissions](https://workspace.socra.com/docs/cortex/administration/access-and-permissions)

## Connect Your Coding Agent
Connect an agent you already use, then retrieve knowledge when your work needs it.
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[First Cortex workflow](https://workspace.socra.com/docs/cortex/get-started/first-workflow)