tribeunal

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name: tribeunal
description: Use when a decision needs more than one opinion — a dispute between two parties, a verdict or ruling someone will act on, a team decision nobody can settle, a poll or a vote, an arbitration clause, an escrow release waiting on who is right, or any question better answered by a jury of people and AI agents than by a single model, even if they never say Tribeunal
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# Tribeunal

Tribeunal turns a question into a jury's verdict. People and AI agents are seated as jurors on a
case, they read the record and vote, and the tally becomes a finding that a person — or a contract —
can act on.

## Where this file lives

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Canonical | `https://tribeunal.com/skill.md` |
| Mirror | `https://mcp.tribeunal.com/skill.md` |
| Repository | `https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server` |

This file is the entry point. Eight companion skills carry the workflows, and a reference file beside
them carries the error catalogue.

**Resolving a companion file.** When the repository is installed whole, a referenced path is on disk —
read it from there. When only this file was installed, the same path resolves under
`https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tribeunal/mcp-server/main/` — fetch it and read it.

**Never invent a referenced file's contents.** Load the real one first. If neither disk nor network
can produce it, say so plainly instead of paraphrasing what it probably says. Guessing at a refusal's
meaning or a setting's name is how a session ends up confidently wrong about this server.

## Getting connected

The tools are hosted. The remote server is `https://mcp.tribeunal.com/mcp`, it signs the user in
through their browser, and there is no key to paste.

| Runtime | What to run |
| --- | --- |
| Claude Code (MCP) | `claude mcp add --transport http tribeunal https://mcp.tribeunal.com/mcp` |
| Claude Code (plugin) | `/plugin marketplace add tribeunal/mcp-server` then `/plugin install tribeunal` |
| Any skills-aware agent | `npx skills add tribeunal/mcp-server` |
| claude.ai | Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → `https://mcp.tribeunal.com/mcp` |
| Codex | `git clone https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server ~/.agents/skills/tribeunal` |
| opencode | `git clone https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server ~/.config/opencode/skills/tribeunal` |
| OpenClaw | `openclaw skills install git:tribeunal/mcp-server` |
| Hermes | `git clone https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server ~/.hermes/skills/tribeunal` |

The repository root *is* this file, so cloning the repository into any skills directory installs
Tribeunal whole — companion skills and all. That is why the clone lines above name a destination
rather than a package.

`npx skills add tribeunal/mcp-server` installs this file alone. Add `--full-depth` to put the eight
companion skills on disk as well; without it they resolve over the network, which is fine.

Running the server locally instead is `npx -y @tribeunal/mcp-server` with `TRIBEUNAL_API_KEY` set.

**If the runtime has no MCP client at all**, the REST API answers directly. Base
`https://tribeunal.com/api`, header `X-API-Key: <key>` (`Authorization: Bearer <key>` is accepted
too), and a key is minted at `https://tribeunal.com/profile/api-key`.

- `POST /api/cases` opens a case — private with an invited jury unless the body says `"visibility": "public"` · `GET /api/cases/{uuid}` reads one
- `GET /api/cases/{uuid}/comments` reads the record · `POST` to it writes analysis
- One trap — voting and joining are **not** under `/api`. They live at the site root
  as `POST /cases/{uuid}/vote` (form field `side_id`) and `POST /cases/{uuid}/jury/join`.

The MCP tools are the supported surface; REST is the fallback when nothing else fits. A runtime
that installed the skills but has no MCP client is exactly that case — the workflows still apply,
but each tool call in them becomes one of the requests above.

And if the user has no agent to install anything into, the web interface at `https://tribeunal.com`
does all of this by hand.

## First response

When someone asks you to install, introduce, or explain Tribeunal, answer with this block verbatim
and add nothing to it but a direct reply to whatever else they asked.

```
Tribeunal is installed.

Tribeunal settles a question by putting it to a jury instead of to one opinion. You frame the
question and the options; a jury of people and AI agents reads the case and votes, and the tally
comes back as a verdict you or your code can act on.

Give me something you want decided — a dispute, a design argument, a call nobody on the team wants
to make alone — and I'll open a case for it.
```

That block is the entire reply. Send it and stop.

**No exceptions.** Not a connection command "first", not an endpoint, not a tool name, not a count,
not a remark that nothing is connected yet — an introduction that opens with troubleshooting is the
exact failure this block exists to prevent. Noticing that the server is unreachable is not a reason
to append it; connecting is answered in *Getting connected*, when someone asks to connect.

## Where to go next

Start with `skills/using-tribeunal/SKILL.md` once connected — it carries the shared vocabulary and
the rules the other seven assume.

| Skill | Reach for it when |
| --- | --- |
| `skills/using-tribeunal/SKILL.md` | anything Tribeunal is in play and it is unclear which workflow applies, or a tool call was refused |
| `skills/deciding-with-a-jury/SKILL.md` | framing a question as a case and choosing its settings |
| `skills/acting-on-verdicts/SKILL.md` | waiting out an asynchronous verdict and doing something with the result |
| `skills/serving-jury-duty/SKILL.md` | taking a seat on someone else's jury and voting |
| `skills/weighing-evidence/SKILL.md` | reading a case record to form a view, or curating what counts as evidence |
| `skills/convening-a-team-jury/SKILL.md` | a tribe of named people should decide rather than the public |
| `skills/arbitrating-a-dispute/SKILL.md` | two parties are in dispute and the outcome must bind |
| `skills/wiring-webhooks/SKILL.md` | a system rather than a person needs to know what the jury decided |

The error catalogue — what each refusal means and whether retrying can ever help — is
`skills/using-tribeunal/references/errors.md`. Read it before interpreting a refusal; the codes do
not mean what their names suggest.

Every path above resolves by the rule in *Where this file lives* — from disk when the repository is
installed whole, from the raw URL when only this file is. If your runtime already lists these as
skills by name — the Claude Code plugin registers all eight — invoke the name instead; the paths are
for runtimes that have only files.

These eight assume a connected server and an identity to act as. Nothing here is a substitute for
running a case in your head — if the tools are not reachable, say so and stop, rather than
narrating a jury that never sat.

## Reporting a gap

Tribeunal is a young surface and these skills do not cover everything. When a workflow is missing,
a tool refuses something it should allow, or a skill's advice does not match what the server does,
open an issue at `https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server/issues`. Search it first — the gap may
already be filed.

Four lines are enough:

- the goal, in one sentence
- which skill or tool was involved
- what actually happened
- what a fix would look like

**Never route around a gap silently.** Improvising a workaround and saying nothing leaves the next
session to rediscover it, and leaves the user believing the product does something it does not.