What is tribal?
tribal is a MCP server by tribal-memory that self-hosted semantic memory for an engineering team's tribal knowledge: the decisions and reasoning behind the code, queryable by the team and its agents. It is listed under Knowledge & memory and has 10 GitHub stars.
| Type | Mcp server |
|---|---|
| Author | tribal-memory |
| Repository | tribal-memory/tribal |
| Popularity | 10 GitHub stars |
| Category | Knowledge & memory |
| Security | Low risk (96/100) |
| Rank | #1,738 of 4,418 MCP servers; #196 in Knowledge & memory |
| Last commit | 2026-08-06 |
| Runs | Locally |
| Language | Rust |
Is tribal safe to install?
tribal scores 96/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 5 of 6 checks.
MCP server results come from listing signals: who publishes it, where your data goes and what it can do. The code itself is not scanned yet.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Community-built server | Note |
| Runs on your machine only | Pass |
| No credentials mentioned | Pass |
| Read-only by description | Pass |
| No code execution | Pass |
| Source on GitHub | Pass |
How do I install tribal?
- Find the launch command. The README says how the server starts (npx, uvx, docker or a remote URL) and which API keys it needs.
https://github.com/tribal-memory/tribal
- Add it to Claude Code. Replace the part after -- with the command from the README. Remote servers use --transport http with a URL.
claude mcp add tribal -- <command from README> claude mcp add --transport http tribal <server-url>
- Check it connected. This lists your MCP servers and their status.
claude mcp list
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs tribal for you:
Add the "tribal" MCP server from https://github.com/tribal-memory/tribal to Claude Code. Read its README for the launch command and any API keys I need, run claude mcp add, then check that it connects.