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Tribal
Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.
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Package (oci)
Package: oci ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1
TRIBAL_DATABASE__URLrequired — Postgres (pgvector) connection string. Tribal is self-hosted; you provide the database. The supported, complete deployment is docker-compose.yml.TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTErequired — First-run only: the git remote that identifies the project bootstrapped on first start.TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAMErequired — First-run only: the name of the project bootstrapped on first start.TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT— Containerised transport: http or sse. The Docker image does not serve stdio; install the binary for stdio.TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS— 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— 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_KEYsecret — Optional; only if an ingest or retrieval stage is configured to use OpenAI (defaults target a local Ollama).ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecret — Optional; only if a stage is configured to use Anthropic.
This server takes extra arguments — see its repository.
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