Welcome to Contextually¶
The Universal Computational Fabric. Contextually is a declarative, multi-stage automation platform for modern data and operations teams. It's built around a powerful command-line shell, cx, that functions as a stateful Workspace IDE and an AI Reasoning Partner.
Our core philosophy is to eliminate context fragmentation—the loss of lineage, intent, and nuance when work flows between different tools, people, and AI agents.
- Getting Started Tutorial
Our 5-minute guide to installing cx and running your first command. This is the best place for new users to begin their journey.
- The Agentic Shell
Discover the AI Assistant built into cx. Learn to translate natural language into commands with // and solve complex problems with agent.
- Application Ecosystem
Explore Applications—complete, "toolkit-in-a-box" solutions that bundle flows, queries, and blueprints to solve real-world problems.
- Blueprint Foundation
Understand Blueprints, the version-controlled packages that contain the "knowledge" of how to interact with any external API or service.
Our Philosophy: The Contextually Way¶
Contextually is built on three foundational principles that guide every architectural decision.
- Specification-First
We don't build integrations for services; we build engines for protocols. We onboard new services by ingesting their machine-readable specifications (like OpenAPI) with the cx compile command, not by writing bespoke code.
- Declarative over Imperative
All workflows are defined as simple, version-controllable YAML scripts. The what is in the script; the how is in the engine. This makes workflows readable, portable, and maintainable.
- Compose, Don't Command
Our platform is built on the UNIX philosophy. Small, powerful tools (Blueprints, Flows, agentic commands) are composed together using pipes (|) to create complex, emergent workflows.