corteza: AI Agent Runtime

An agent runtime that gives Large Language Models (LLMs) from 'Anthropic' <https://www.anthropic.com/>, 'OpenAI' <https://openai.com/>, 'Moonshot' <https://www.moonshot.ai/>, and 'Ollama' <https://ollama.com/> direct access to a live R session with managed workspace state. Tools execute as R function calls with provenance tracking, and a deterministic retrieval system keeps relevant objects in context across turns. Three entry points: a shell command-line interface (CLI), a console read-eval-print-loop via chat(), and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server via serve() for external clients.

Version:	0.6.3
Depends:	R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports:	callr, codetools, curl, jsonlite, llm.api, printify, processx, saber
Suggests:	fortunes, mx.api, simplermarkdown, tinytest
Published:	2026-05-04
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.corteza
Author:	Troy Hernandez [aut, cre], cornball.ai [cph]
Maintainer:	Troy Hernandez <troy at cornball.ai>
BugReports:	https://github.com/cornball-ai/corteza/issues
License:	Apache License (≥ 2)
URL:	https://github.com/cornball-ai/corteza
NeedsCompilation:	no
SystemRequirements:	On Windows, Rtools45 (R 4.5.x) or Rtools44 (R 4.4.x) is recommended so the 'bash' shell tool is available; minimal installs fall back to a 'cmd' tool. 'git' is required for the git_status, git_diff, and git_log tools (install Git for Windows, or 'pacman -Sy git' from an Rtools shell).
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	corteza results [issues need fixing before 2026-05-31]

Documentation:

Reference manual:	corteza.html , corteza.pdf
Vignettes:	Package as Skill (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	corteza_0.6.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: corteza_0.6.3.zip, r-release: corteza_0.6.3.zip, r-oldrel: corteza_0.6.3.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): corteza_0.6.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): corteza_0.6.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): corteza_0.6.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): corteza_0.6.3.tgz

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