AI assistant and agents

Status: the assistant answers from this documentation (English and German) through Cortex Keyring; the same knowledge is open to coding agents through an MCP server, an Agent Skill and llms.txt. Answers are generated: check figures against the linked page before you cut, crimp or power anything.

Ask the assistant

The bar at the bottom of every page is the assistant.

Do	How
Open it	Click the bar or press / anywhere outside a text field (Ctrl K / ⌘ K stays the page search)
Ask	Type and press Enter (Shift Enter for a new line); it knows which page you are on
Show it something	Paste a screenshot or photo (Ctrl V / ⌘ V), drop images or text files onto the page, or use the paperclip; a long pasted text becomes an attachment
Keep it open	Pin it: it becomes a sidebar on the right while you read; unpin to float it again
Shrink it	Esc or the collapse button reduces it to the small bar
Conversations	Click the title for your history: start a new one (Alt N), switch, rename or delete
Stop	The stop button ends an answer; the part already written is kept

It searches the documentation, reads the pages it needs and links them in its answer; on the German site it answers in German. Photos of your build are welcome: it compares them with the assembly steps and the wiring list.

Your data: conversations and attachments are stored by the assistant service for your account only, until you delete them. Availability: the assistant runs on the owner's Cortex Keyring subscription; when the bar shows a lock, it is not available for your account.

Use the knowledge base in your own agent

The documentation is published for language models and coding agents in three forms.

MCP server

The MCP server is https://strido.cortex.a2olabs.com/mcp. Agents sign in with a personal Cortex app token (90 days by default):

cortex --json api post /api/v1/apps/strido/tokens --data '{"label":"my agent"}'   # prints {"id", "token": "cxu_...", "expiresAt"}
export STRIDO_TOKEN=cxu_...                                                         # keep it out of files you share
claude mcp add --transport http strido https://strido.cortex.a2olabs.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $STRIDO_TOKEN"

Codex: add [mcp_servers.strido] with url = "https://strido.cortex.a2olabs.com/mcp" and bearer_token_env_var = "STRIDO_TOKEN" to ~/.codex/config.toml. Tools:

Tool	Returns
search_docs	the best-matching sections (title, link, snippet), English or German
read_page	a whole page or one section as Markdown
list_pages	the site map with links
search_parts	bill-of-materials lines with quantity, price, shop and product data

cortex api delete /api/v1/apps/strido/tokens/<id> revokes the token.

Agent Skill with the full documentation

Download the skill (ZIP) (or, with the token: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $STRIDO_TOKEN" -o strido-skill.zip https://strido.cortex.a2olabs.com/api/agent/strido-skill.zip) and unpack it into your agent's skill directory (Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/, Codex: ~/.agents/skills/). It holds strido/SKILL.md and every page in English and German under references/, so an agent can answer offline; fetch it again after a release.

llms.txt

File	Contents
/llms.txt	index of every page with its link (German)
/llms-full.txt	every page in one Markdown file (German)

The site needs a Cortex sign-in: people download the files in the browser; agents use the MCP server or fetch the same files with the app token under /api/agent/ (llms.txt, llms-full.txt, de/llms.txt, de/llms-full.txt).