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Tribal for Gemini CLI

io.github.tribal-memory/tribal

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

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Install Tribal in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tribal": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL": "<TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL>",
        "TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE": "<TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE>",
        "TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME": "<TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME>",
        "TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT": "<TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT>",
        "TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS": "<TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS>",
        "TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL": "<TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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