User guide

Give AI a memory of your project. Contorium preserves decisions, architecture context, and evolution history in .contora/ — across IDE, MCP, and CLI.

New user

Quick start

Choose IDE, MCP, or CLI — ask, capture, and transfer project memory.

Setup

Install & use

Install adapters · usage scenarios · uninstall.

Interactive

MCP setup wizard

Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor one-line setup.

IDE

IDE extension

Ask Contorium, Review Queue, Transfer Context.

MCP

MCP server

ask_project · transfer_project · lifecycle tools.

CLI

contorium ask · lifecycle · review.

Lifecycle

Knowledge Lifecycle

Decision validity · review queue · trust scores.

Dashboard

Runtime dashboard

Cognitive State terminal UI — starts automatically.

Common tasks

Task	CLI	MCP
Ask a question	`contorium ask "…"`	`ask_project`
What needs review?	`contorium review`	`get_review_queue`
Knowledge health	`contorium lifecycle`	`get_knowledge_health`
Transfer to new chat	`contorium transfer context --copy`	`transfer_project`