Cortex vs Depwire

In-depth architectural comparison of the Cortex and Depwire MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Cortex when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Aggregators domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (BYOK (Pay Provider Direct)).
• Primary tools included: Local knowledge graph for project files, LLM-based entity and relationship extraction, Natural-language graph queries with citations.

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Choose Depwire when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Aggregators domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Deterministic tree-sitter dependency parsing, MCP access to local codebase graph data, What-if impact simulation.

Explore Depwire Details

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Cortex gzoonet Aggregators	Depwire depwire Aggregators
Summary
Category & Scope	Aggregators	Aggregators
Quality signal

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gzoonet-cortex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@gzoo/cortex"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "depwire-depwire": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "depwire-depwire"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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