Cortex vs Pluggedin MCP Proxy

In-depth architectural comparison of the Cortex and Pluggedin MCP Proxy 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.

Explore Cortex Details

Choose Pluggedin MCP Proxy when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Aggregators domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: OAuth 2.0 (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Supports STDIO, SSE, and Streamable HTTP MCP servers, Runs as STDIO or Streamable HTTP, Aggregates tools, prompts, resources, and resource templates.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Cortex gzoonet Aggregators	Pluggedin MCP Proxy VeriTeknik Aggregators
Summary	Local-first knowledge graph for developers. Watches project files, extracts entities and relationships via LLMs, builds a queryable knowledge graph with web dashboard and CLI. Provides 4 MCP tools: getstatus, listprojects, findentity, querycortex.	A comprehensive proxy server that combines multiple MCP servers into a single interface with extensive visibility features. It provides discovery and management of tools, prompts, resources, and templates across servers, plus a playground for debugging when building MCP servers.
Category & Scope

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": {
    "veriteknik-pluggedin-mcp-proxy": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pluggedin/pluggedin-mcp-proxy@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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