Tribal
About
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.
Details
- Author
- tribal-memory
- Downloads
- 326
- Categories
- Other, AI, Knowledge Base, Developer Tools
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- 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
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
TribalCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
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.
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"tribal": {
"tribal": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8725/mcp"
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"tribal": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8725/mcp"
}
}Semantic compression for project knowledge.
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.
It runs as an MCP server, ingests text on demand, and exposes a graph of items connected by what they support, contradict, or refine. Your agent harness talks to it the same way it talks to any other MCP tool.
Tribal is not trying to remember everything. It preserves what remains useful after the work is done.
Quick start
Start with the skills. Tribal runs inside your agent, and the skills teach it to install, verify, wire, and troubleshoot Tribal. Installing them and letting the agent drive is the most reliable path:
``
npx skills add tribal-memory/skills
Then ask your agent to set Tribal up. Visit tribal.build for more detailed installation instructions.
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