Tambo

Install the Quipu stack from a plan you can review, then prove the selected tools work. Give an agent durable memory and code context, without assembling every tool by hand. Tambo is a CLI and agent skill. The compatibility command caboodle remains available.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scbrown/tambo/main/install.sh | sh

Downloads the latest release, verifies its SHA-256 and version, and installs tambo and caboodle in ${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/bin. Requires curl, tar, Python 3 and sha256sum or shasum. Add that directory to PATH. Published archives support Linux x86_64 and macOS arm64/x86_64; Linux arm64 has no published archive. Source builds, pinned versions, removal and the Homebrew alternative are in the installation reference.

First success: local, single-user

Run in an empty directory you intend to keep:

tambo quickstart

This saves a reviewed retrieval plan, installs Quipu, Camayoc and Bobbin, and checks each tool. Success is exit 0 and quipu: verified, camayoc: verified, bobbin: verified. Keep caboodle-plan.toml and .caboodle/ to resume. Recheck the same install:

tambo verify

Advanced: shared services and agents

For issued credentials, remote stores and registering Bobbin with your agent, use the agent and installation reference. The default quickstart is local and needs no account or remote server.

From the code repository you want searchable, initialize and index it before registering the server by absolute path:

bobbin init
bobbin index
claude mcp add bobbin -- "$(command -v bobbin)" serve "$PWD"

Where to go next

Choose a profile or use tambo init --guided.
Camayoc: vocabulary, shapes and governed agent memory.
Getting started and command reference.
Load this repository's graph: repository-pendant publication is pending. When a release provides the archive, checksum and provenance, follow Quipu's verified import workflow. Import stages knowledge; it does not promote it into ROOT automatically.

The stack

The Quipu stack is built around a governed, bitemporal knowledge store: shared facts, decisions and work history your agents can query. Quipu can check writes against your rules, records where each fact came from, and answers what was true when.

tool	what it gives your agents
tambo	🧰 Agent Platform Toolkit - installs and configures the quipu stack
quipu	stores shared facts with provenance and history; can check writes against your rules
camayoc	prepares knowledge and vocabulary for Quipu, with checks before it is admitted
quechua	shared vocabulary and shapes for interoperable knowledge
chaski	reacts to graph changes and delivers governed notifications
bobbin	searches your code and can include related knowledge from Quipu
yupana	shows code impact and can read policies from Quipu to check changes
desire-path	turns agent mistakes into feature requests; works on its own without Quipu
seeds	a work item tracker backed by the Quipu knowledge base
shantytown	runs crews of AI agents on work items, triggered by hand, on a schedule or by events; can share work and memory through Quipu
rikuy	live brief: status, graphs, watches and signed decisions over Quipu
shuttle	runs signed agent workflows and keeps their records in Quipu

Contributing

Run just check, just book and just docs-check.

MIT license.