Tribal memory MCP server

Tribal is a memory helper you run yourself. It keeps the unwritten knowledge of a project, like why a decision was made or which trick fixed a nasty bug. It is handy for engineering teams who keep losing the same context in chat threads and tickets.

What this MCP server does

You tell your AI something worth remembering, like why you chose one approach over another. The AI sends that note to Tribal, which saves it and links it to related notes. Later, when you ask about a decision or a bug, the AI asks Tribal, and Tribal searches its store and finds the most relevant items. You get a short answer or a list of related notes right in the chat. Over time, this builds a small map of your project's reasoning that your whole team can query.

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What you can do with it

• Save a decision and the reason behind it
• Ask why a certain choice was made
• Find notes that support or contradict each other
• Look up a fix that worked for a past bug
• Browse related items around a topic
• Rate how useful a search result was
• Keep project knowledge in one place your team can query

Try asking your AI

• “Save this: we picked Postgres over MySQL because of the vector extension.”
• “Why did we drop the old caching layer last quarter?”
• “Find anything we wrote about the login timeout bug.”
• “Show me notes that contradict the decision to use a monorepo.”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in plain chat: a short summary, a list of related notes, or the exact item you asked for. When you save something, Tribal confirms it stored the note and shows what it linked it to. When you search, you see the most relevant items with a little context around each one. Everything stays in your own database, not on someone else's servers.

Before you start

Who it's for

Engineering teams and developers who want their AI to remember the reasoning behind their code, not just the code itself.