Tribal

Name: Tribal
Author: tribal-memory

@tribal-memory

About Tribal

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.

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Basic information

Config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tribal": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8725/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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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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