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Tribal knowledge
A Claude skill that digs undocumented institutional knowledge out of a company's
record — Slack, email, docs, tickets, CRM, code, meeting notes — and returns an
answer where every claim carries a link back to where it came from.
Anything that can't produce a link doesn't ship as a finding. It ships as a gap.
That rule is the point. A knowledge document's value is that the next person can
trust it without re-verifying. An unsourced claim looks exactly as authoritative
as a sourced one, gets copied into the next doc, and becomes fake institutional
knowledge that outlives everyone who could have corrected it. A gap tells the
reader "nobody knows this, go find out" — which is true and actionable.
What it's for
Reach for it when someone asks:
Why does our org do this a particular way?
What was decided about X, and why?
What does a new hire or a handoff need to know?
What only lives in one person's head?
Is this written down anywhere?
Has this come up before? (precedent search)
It also fits the case where someone says "search our Slack for X" but what they
actually need is a sourced answer rather than a pile of search hits.
Install
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git clone https://github.com/TenexTony/tribal-knowledge.git ~/.claude/skills/tribal-knowledge
Run /reload-plugins, or it loads automatically next session.
Claude Cowork
Download a zip of this repo and upload it through the skills UI:
gh repo archive TenexTony/tribal-knowledge --format zip --output tribal-knowledge.zip
If you build the zip by hand, compress the repo contents — SKILL.md and
.claude-plugin/ must sit at the top level of the archive, not inside a nested
folder. Zipping the folder itself is the most common reason a skill fails
validation.
How it works
Five phases, described in full in SKILL.md:
Inventory the record — check which connectors are actually live before
asking anything, and say plainly what's missing.
Interview — three questions at most, skipped entirely for specific asks.
Establishes the outcome and the scope.
Hunt for traces, not answers — the trail is in the exceptions,
reversals, and repeated questions, not in a document that states the policy.
Verify — resolve every claim to a citable location, or demote it to a gap.
Deliver — the artifact the outcome called for, with gaps listed as gaps.
There is also a Sensitive material section covering what to do when the hunt
turns up personnel matters, compensation, or legal exposure.
Supporting references:
File
What's in it
references/sources.md
What lives where and how to search it — chat, email, wikis, trackers, CRM, code hosts, meeting notes
references/hunts.md
Hunts organised by function and by outcome
references/traces.md
Seven trace patterns with query templates — the repeated question, the exception, the reversal, the name, the workaround, the warning, the stale artifact
Requirements
The skill is only as good as what it can reach. It needs at least one connected
source — a chat platform, email, a doc store, a ticket tracker, a code host, or
an uploaded export. With nothing connected it will tell you so rather than
guess, which is the correct behaviour but not a useful session.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
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