How _exocortex_ is used here The term appears in Alex Komoroske's discussion of the four pillars of intentional technology. As the first pillar — human-centered, not corporation-centered — he says technology should be an extension of your agency, and offers exocortex as the word he likes for this idea: your cognitive exoskeleton.[^bb2c42aa-478f-5c9a-ac26-e83a54c63127@719] [moment: 719] He likes the word exocortex: your cognitive exoskeleton. In this framing, an exocortex is the external, private cognitive layer an intentional system provides: it exists to serve your intentions rather than a vendor's engagement metrics, keeps the data yours to see and share, and amplifies your thinking instead of replacing it. It connects directly to his argument that context, not the model, is where alignment lives — the rich substrate of meaning about you should be held on your behalf, not aggregated by a platform.[^bb2c42aa-478f-5c9a-ac26-e83a54c63127@568] - Exocortex is Komoroske's shorthand for a cognitive exoskeleton — technology as an extension of your own agency. - It anchors the human-centered pillar of intentional technology: built around you and your intentions, not a corporation's. - Its promise depends on the surrounding architecture — privacy by design, user-held context, and compute you pay for.