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  "description": "Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-06-28T21:49:26.748687Z",
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      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "runtimeHint": "docker"
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      "description": "Postgres (pgvector) connection string. Tribal is self-hosted; you provide the database. The supported, complete deployment is docker-compose.yml."
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      "name": "TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE",
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      "name": "TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT",
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      "description": "Address the server binds inside the container. Must be 0.0.0.0 (not the loopback default) for the published port to be reachable."
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      "name": "TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL",
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      "name": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional; only if an ingest or retrieval stage is configured to use OpenAI (defaults target a local Ollama)."
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      "detail": "Every package has an explicit version"
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      "id": "meta-text",
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      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI"
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  "scannedAt": "2026-10-29",
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