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The Library is the company’s shared collection inside Cortex — the place where deliverables become an asset that anyone (and any agent) can find and reuse. Instead of good materials getting lost in old conversations, they’re gathered here, with authorship and a link, ready for reuse.
Cortex Library

📸 Screenshot to insert [/en/cortex/library]: Library page with the published items (canvas, documents, minutes) and the company/area knowledge documents listed together.

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What appears in the Library

Published deliverables

Materials someone published to the Library: a canvas, a document, meeting minutes. These are the deliverables worth keeping and reusing.

Company/area knowledge

Automatically, the Knowledge documents marked with Company or Area visibility appear here — with no extra publish step.
No publishing twice: when you upload a document in Knowledge with Company or Area visibility, it already starts appearing in the Library. You don’t need to “publish it again” — the Library gathers the collection automatically.

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Publish a deliverable

For deliverables (canvas, documents, minutes) that didn’t come from Knowledge, there’s a step to publish to the Library:
1

Open the deliverable you want to share

A canvas, a document or minutes worth turning into a collection item.
2

Publish to the Library

The deliverable starts appearing for people (and agents) with access, along with the provenance: who published it, which agent took part, and a link to the item.
3

Retract whenever you want

If a material has gone stale, retract it from the Library. It stops appearing and stops being found by the agents.
The provenance (“published by John, agent Jane”) plus the link make it clear where each material came from — great for trust and for citing the source.

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How the agents use the Library

The collection doesn’t sit idle: the agents discover the Library’s items through search. When someone asks something related, the agent finds the published material and uses it in the answer — citing the author and the link. It’s the same search-by-meaning mechanism as Knowledge.
Under the hood, the Library reuses the Knowledge index (library-type items). In practice, everything in the Library is searchable by the agents the same way as Knowledge documents.

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Area-based permissions (RBAC)

The Library respects access by area, like the rest of Cortex:
  • Company items — all members see them.
  • Area items — only those who belong to that area (owner/admin see everything).
  • The agents never bring, in an answer, a Library item the asking person couldn’t see.
Area privacy also applies to search: an item restricted to an area is not considered when the person asking isn’t from that area. It’s not just “hiding it on screen” — it’s guaranteed in the search mechanism.

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Next steps

Knowledge

Upload documents — the company/area ones appear in the Library on their own.

Cortex — Overview

Understand the full management cycle.