tribeunal Using Tribeunal
Tribeunal puts a question to a jury and returns a verdict. The tools on the Tribeunal MCP server are the connectivity; the skills below carry the procedure. Start here, then go to the owner of your task.
Vocabulary
A case is the question, its sides are the options a voter picks between, and the jurors who make up its jury vote it into a verdict. A tribe is a standing group to draw a jury from. A share link is the view-only URL for a private case. The web UI says "case"; the API says "trial" — same thing.
Identifiers and identity
Cases, sides, tribes and webhooks are addressed by UUID; a number or slug will not resolve, so find
the case with tribeunal_search_cases. Comment, evidence and member ids are plain strings.
You act as whoever signed in — on a shared connector, not necessarily the account that owns the
case. tribeunal_get_current_user answers it.
Where to go next
| The task | Skill |
|---|---|
| Get something decided, ruled on or polled | deciding-with-a-jury |
| Wait on an outcome, or act once one lands | acting-on-verdicts |
| Serve as a juror, by invitation or matchmaking | serving-jury-duty |
| Read a case record and form or contribute a view | weighing-evidence |
| Have specific people or a tribe decide it | convening-a-team-jury |
| Settle a dispute between two parties, bindingly | arbitrating-a-dispute |
| Tell another system what the jury said | wiring-webhooks |
When a call is refused
Invalid parameters: … means the arguments never left this machine — reread the schema. API Error: … means the server refused; the reason is a stable code on some endpoints and prose on
others. references/errors.md says what each means and whether a retry can ever help. Several are
terminal.
Gotchas
| Trap | What is true |
|---|---|
open means votable |
It stays open past its deadline until the close job runs. Time left is the test. |
| Searching open cases finds only open ones | Cases still assembling a jury match that filter too. |
| A private case's URL can be passed around | It's a dead end for everyone else — a login wall or an access-denied page; the share link is the shareable one. |
| Closing returns the verdict | Closing is asynchronous — the verdict lands separately. |
| No verdict means a tie | It can instead mean a failed quorum or requirement, which is not a tie. |
references/tools.md lists every tool with its flags and required arguments, generated from the
server's definitions — trust it over memory.