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Tribal
@tribal-memory
Tribal captures the engineering knowledge that does not get written down in code or tickets. The reasoning behind a load-bearing decision, the heuristic someone keeps reaching for, the breakthrough that closed a gnarly bug.
Overview
What is Tribal?
Tribal is an MCP server that captures engineering knowledge not written down in code or tickets — the reasoning behind decisions, useful heuristics, and breakthroughs that closed bugs. It ingests text on demand and exposes a graph of items connected by what they support, contradict, or refine.
How to use Tribal?
Install the skills with npx skills add tribal-memory/skills, then ask your agent to set up Tribal. Visit tribal.build for detailed installation instructions.
Key features of Tribal
- Semantic compression of project knowledge
- Ingests text on demand
- Exposes a graph of connected items
- Items linked by support, contradiction, or refinement
- Designed to work with agent harnesses via MCP
Use cases of Tribal
- Capturing the rationale behind a load-bearing decision
- Preserving a heuristic someone reaches for repeatedly
- Recording the breakthrough that closed a gnarly bug
- Retaining useful knowledge when work is complete
FAQ from Tribal
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