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Tribal MCP Server

Name: Tribal MCP Server
Author: tribal-memory

Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tribal-memory-tribal": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL": "",
        "TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE": "",
        "TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME": "",
        "TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT": "http",
        "TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS": "0.0.0.0:8725",
        "TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8725/mcp",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL	Yes	Postgres (pgvector) connection string. Tribal is self-hosted; you provide the database. The supported, complete deployment is docker-compose.yml.
TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE	Yes	First-run only: the git remote that identifies the project bootstrapped on first start.
TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME	Yes	First-run only: the name of the project bootstrapped on first start.
TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT	No	Containerised transport: http or sse. The Docker image does not serve stdio; install the binary for stdio.
TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS	No	Address the server binds inside the container. Must be 0.0.0.0 (not the loopback default) for the published port to be reachable.
TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL	No	The URL clients use to reach the server (for example http://127.0.0.1:8725/mcp). Needed for OAuth dynamic client registration once the server binds a routable interface.
OPENAI_API_KEY	No	Optional; only if an ingest or retrieval stage is configured to use OpenAI (defaults target a local Ollama). Secret.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	No	Optional; only if a stage is configured to use Anthropic. Secret.

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