Cortex vs Non-Cortex Baselines
NON-CORTEX BASELINE (WITHOUT CORTEX)CORTEX (WITH GRAPH + SMART RETRIEVAL)
Full-context baseline re-sends complete source documents every query. Cortex avoids this via retrieval + graph context, reducing tokens and cost.
Non-Cortex Configuration
Baseline method
LLM model for token/cost comparison
Source / Memory Scope
Scope type
Talk to specific item
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Cortex Configuration
Top-N chunks
Default N is 5 for now. Tune this to compare quality/cost trade-offs.
Further reading: long-context failure modes and retrieval quality