Tribal for VS Code
io.github.tribal-memory/tribal
Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:oci
Install Tribal in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-database--url",
"description": "TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-project-remote",
"description": "TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-project-name",
"description": "TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-server--transport",
"description": "TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-server--bind-address",
"description": "TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tribal-public-mcp-url",
"description": "TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "openai-api-key",
"description": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "anthropic-api-key",
"description": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"tribal": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1"
],
"env": {
"TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL": "${input:tribal-database--url}",
"TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE": "${input:tribal-project-remote}",
"TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME": "${input:tribal-project-name}",
"TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT": "${input:tribal-server--transport}",
"TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS": "${input:tribal-server--bind-address}",
"TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL": "${input:tribal-public-mcp-url}",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "${input:openai-api-key}",
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "${input:anthropic-api-key}"
}
}
}
}
VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs