AI
TaskForce works without AI. With a model configured, Cortex answers questions and drafts issues, search understands meaning, and Smart Assign weighs more than its rules.
Cortex
Cortex is the workspace’s assistant. It answers from the Brain OS and the workspace’s projects, and shows the notes it relied on. It also drafts the specification of an issue from its title and context, and you approve the draft before it is saved to the issue.
Cortex can use the tools of the MCP servers connected to the workspace (see Integrations): reading runs directly, and a change waits for the approval of an owner or an admin.
Smart Assign
Smart Assign suggests the best person for an issue from skills, workload and history, and says why. Without AI it uses these rules alone; with AI, a model also scores how well the issue matches each person. Either way it is a suggestion: you apply it yourself.
Search
The Brain OS search works on plain text. With an AI model for search (bge-m3 with Ollama, by default), it also finds
notes by meaning.
Choose the model
AI comes from Ollama on the same machine by default (qwen3:8b for answers, bge-m3 for search), or from any
OpenAI-compatible API (OpenAI, Groq, Mistral, a vLLM server…). The setup is in
Self-hosting.
Usage
AI use counts against the owner of each workspace, for all their workspaces. Settings > Cortex usage shows the
current month: tokens, requests and the cap, if the instance sets one (AI_MONTHLY_TOKENS_PER_ACCOUNT).