What's New in Cornelius v03.26

Released March 2026 · Cornelius versions are named for their month (vMM.YY)

Corneliusis the open-source second-brain agent built for Trinity — a company or personal brain that compounds, with receipts. This is a Cornelius release, not a Trinity one. New here? Start at Cornelius.

v03.26 rebuilds search as memory — spreading activation and rankings that learn from use — adds the dialectic engine and autonomous research, and makes Cornelius deployable to Trinity. 30 skills in all.

What changed

•SYNAPSE-inspired memory — spreading activation search with intent classification and usage-based learning.

•Dialectic engine — two sub-agents argue committed positions while the orchestrator synthesizes (/dialectic).

•Autonomous research — /learn-new-things runs full research cycles with git branching.

•Insight graduation — /graduate-insights promotes draft notes to permanent status with Zettelkasten criteria.

•Q-value learning — search rankings improve over time based on actual usage patterns.

•Trinity-compatible — Cornelius can be deployed to the Trinity agent orchestration platform — see Deploy to your Trinity.

Learn more

How Cornelius works · Getting started · All skills

Source and full history: github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

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