Spector Cortex: Watching Your AI Agent's Neurons Fire in 3D
How do you debug a memory? In traditional vector databases, you query indices and inspect raw JSON output arrays. You cannot see the structural relationships or watch connections strengthen over time.
We built Spector Cortex—a 3D neural visualization dashboard that renders the agent's memory topology as a live constellation map.
The 3D Topology Visualization
Cortex streams memory node updates via WebSockets and renders them using WebGL:
- Node Sizing & Glow: Sized by their semantic importance and glow intensity corresponds to their current activation level.
- Color Coding: Visualizes emotional valence (green for positive interactions, red for outages or user frustrations, blue for neutral facts).
- Synaptic Edges: Hebbian association lines link nodes together. When two nodes co-activate, the link pulses in the UI.
Cortex Analytics and Diagnostics
By clicking on any node in the 3D space, developers can inspect its details, including raw vectors, decay rates, co-activation links, and recall history.
This makes cognitive memory audit visual, intuitive, and extremely powerful for debugging agent behaviors.