# Warestack vs Cortex

Cortex provides a service catalog with scorecards and ownership tracking. Warestack focuses on delivery governance — enforcing standards on every PR, tracking agent output, and surfacing delivery risk.

| Feature                                 | Warestack | Cortex  |
|-----------------------------------------|-----------|---------|
| Platform                                |           |         |
| Service catalog & ownership              |           |         |
| Service tiers                           |           |         |
| Maturity scorecards                     |           |         |
| Custom integrations marketplace          |           |         |
| Open-source core                        |           |         |
| Watchflow                               |           |         |
| Governance                              |           |         |
| PR-level check enforcement               |    10     |     3   |
| Agent instruction file enforcement       |           |         |
| Team-level policy management            |           |         |
| Analysis                                |           |         |
| PR risk scoring                         |           |         |
| Intent-to-diff validation               |           |         |
| Post-merge drift detection              |           |         |
| Analytics                               |           |         |
| Delivery health scores                  |           |         |
| Agent co-authorship tracking            |           |         |
| Natural language queries                |           |         |
| Integrations                            |           |         |
| GitHub (Cloud + Server)                |           |         |
| Linear / Slack / Jira                   |           |         |
| Slack, Jira                             |           |         |

## Cortex catalogs your services. Warestack governs what ships to them.

Cortex excels at service ownership and maturity tracking. Warestack operates at the delivery layer — enforcing checks on every PR, tracking agent-authored changes, and giving leaders real-time delivery health metrics.