LoreDocs vs Tribal
LoreDocs is an MCP server published by labyrinth-analytics. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Tribal is an MCP server published by tribal-memory. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  LoreDocs |  Tribal |
|---|---|---|
| Official MCP Registry | Listed Version: 0.1.28 Downloads/month (PyPI): 581 Downloads/week (PyPI): 291 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
Listed Version: 0.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 10 Not marked · First seen |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.1.19 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | LoreDocs | Tribal |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 4 (worse) | 10 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (loredocs) | On your machine (ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1) |
| Transport (differs) | stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 1 | 8, secrets among them: 2 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | BSL-1.1 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/labyrinth-analytics/loredocs | github.com/tribal-memory/tribal |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
LoreDocs
Local-first knowledge vaults for project docs and specs. Tagged, versioned, full-text searchable.
Tribal
Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.
How to run each
LoreDocs As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --env "LOREDOCS_PRO=<YOUR_LOREDOCS_PRO>" --transport stdio loredocs -- uvx loredocsRequires: LOREDOCS_PRO (secret)
Tribal
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Requires: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (secret), OPENAI_API_KEY (secret), TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL, TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME, TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Only LoreDocs asks for
LOREDOCS_PRO (secret)
Only Tribal asks for
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (secret)OPENAI_API_KEY (secret)TRIBAL_DATABASE__URLTRIBAL_PROJECT_NAMETRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTETRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URLTRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESSTRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: LoreDocs · What it can do: Tribal · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.