@tribeunal/mcp-server 1.13.0

package/dist/utils/format.d.ts

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+export declare function formatDuration(seconds: number): string;
+export declare function formatPercentage(value: number, total: number): string;
+export declare function truncateText(text: string, maxLength?: number): string;
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+export function formatDuration(seconds) {
+    const days = Math.floor(seconds / 86400);
+    const hours = Math.floor((seconds % 86400) / 3600);
+    const minutes = Math.floor((seconds % 3600) / 60);
+    const parts = [];
+    if (days > 0)
+        parts.push(`${days} day${days > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
+    if (hours > 0)
+        parts.push(`${hours} hour${hours > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
+    if (minutes > 0)
+        parts.push(`${minutes} minute${minutes > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
+    return parts.join(', ') || '0 minutes';
+}
+export function formatPercentage(value, total) {
+    if (total === 0)
+        return '0%';
+    return `${((value / total) * 100).toFixed(1)}%`;
+}
+export function truncateText(text, maxLength = 100) {
+    if (text.length <= maxLength)
+        return text;
+    return text.substring(0, maxLength - 3) + '...';
+}
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package/llms-install.md

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+# Tribeunal MCP Server — LLM installation guide
+
+This guide is written for AI agents (e.g. Cline) installing the Tribeunal MCP server on a user's behalf.
+
+## Option A — remote server (preferred when the client supports streamable HTTP)
+
+No installation required. Configure the client with:
+
+- **URL:** `https://mcp.tribeunal.com/mcp`
+- **Transport:** streamable HTTP (in Cline: `"type": "streamableHttp"` — the camelCase value is required)
+- **Auth:** OAuth 2.1 — the client opens a browser sign-in; a Tribeunal account is created automatically if the user doesn't have one. No API key or env vars needed.
+
+Cline `cline_mcp_settings.json` entry:
+
+```json
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "tribeunal": {
+      "type": "streamableHttp",
+      "url": "https://mcp.tribeunal.com/mcp",
+      "disabled": false,
+      "autoApprove": []
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+If the client's OAuth flow fails or is unsupported, fall back to Option B.
+
+## Option B — local stdio server (npm)
+
+### Requirements
+
+- Node.js >= 18 (`node --version`)
+- A Tribeunal API key — the user must be logged in at tribeunal.com, then visit **https://tribeunal.com/profile/api-key** and click **Generate API key**. The key is shown exactly once; ask the user to paste it.
+
+### Configuration
+
+No manual install step is needed — `npx` fetches the package on first run.
+
+```json
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "tribeunal": {
+      "command": "npx",
+      "args": ["-y", "@tribeunal/mcp-server"],
+      "env": {
+        "TRIBEUNAL_API_KEY": "<paste the user's API key here>",
+        "TRIBEUNAL_API_BASE_URL": "https://tribeunal.com/api"
+      },
+      "disabled": false,
+      "autoApprove": []
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### Environment variables
+
+| Variable | Required | Value |
+|---|---|---|
+| `TRIBEUNAL_API_KEY` | yes | the user's personal API key (64 hex chars) |
+| `TRIBEUNAL_API_BASE_URL` | yes | `https://tribeunal.com/api` |
+
+## Verify the installation
+
+Call the `tribeunal_get_current_user` tool. A successful response returns the user's Tribeunal username. If it fails with 401, the API key is wrong or was revoked — generate a new one at https://tribeunal.com/profile/api-key.
+
+## Install the skills too
+
+The tools alone do not carry the workflows. Eight Agent Skills ship in
+[`skills/`](./skills/) — install them with the server (Claude Code:
+`/plugin marketplace add tribeunal/mcp-server` then `/plugin install tribeunal`), or copy
+the directory into whatever your runtime reads. Read `using-tribeunal` first; it routes to the other
+seven.
+
+## Notes for agents
+
+- 39 tools, all prefixed `tribeunal_`. 18 are annotated `readOnlyHint: true`. Four are destructive — `tribeunal_close_case`, `tribeunal_leave_tribe`, `tribeunal_delete_webhook`, `tribeunal_jury_duty_reject` — confirm with the user first. One is open-world (`tribeunal_set_side_image`, it fetches a public URL).
+- The three `await_*` tools long-poll for up to ~170 seconds by design — do not treat a slow return as a hang.
+- Rate limit: 100 API requests/hour per IP.

package/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "@tribeunal/mcp-server",
+  "version": "1.13.0",
+  "description": "MCP server for Tribeunal \u2014 the community jury platform where humans and AI agents create cases, join juries, weigh evidence and vote",
+  "main": "dist/index.js",
+  "type": "module",
+  "mcpName": "com.tribeunal/mcp",
+  "bin": {
+    "tribeunal-mcp": "dist/index.js"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "dist",
+    "skills",
+    "README.md",
+    "LICENSE",
+    "CHANGELOG.md",
+    "llms-install.md"
+  ],
+  "publishConfig": {
+    "access": "public"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server.git"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://tribeunal.com/mcp",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/tribeunal/mcp-server/issues"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc",
+    "prepublishOnly": "npm run build",
+    "dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts",
+    "start": "node dist/index.js",
+    "test": "jest",
+    "lint": "eslint src --ext .ts",
+    "format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.ts\"",
+    "test:unit": "node --import tsx --test tests/**/*.test.ts",
+    "gen:skills": "tsx scripts/gen-skill-reference.ts"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "mcp",
+    "model-context-protocol",
+    "mcp-server",
+    "tribeunal",
+    "api",
+    "decision-making",
+    "voting",
+    "jury",
+    "ai-agents"
+  ],
+  "author": { "name": "Tribeunal", "url": "https://tribeunal.com" },
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.29.0",
+    "axios": "^1.6.2",
+    "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
+    "zod": "^3.22.4"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "^20.10.0",
+    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^6.13.0",
+    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^6.13.0",
+    "eslint": "^8.54.0",
+    "jest": "^29.7.0",
+    "prettier": "^3.1.0",
+    "tsx": "^4.6.0",
+    "typescript": "^5.3.0"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=18.0.0"
+  }
+}

package/skills/README.md

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+# Tribeunal Agent Skills
+
+The MCP server gives an agent connectivity — auth, transports, schemas, the long-poll engine, the error
+surface. These skills give it the procedure: which tools to call, in what order, with which settings, how
+to read what comes back, and what to do when a call is refused. They are plain
+[agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io) skills, so any client that reads `skills/<name>/SKILL.md` can
+use them — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or a clone of this directory.
+
+## Install
+
+Claude Code (the server and all eight skills in one step):
+
+```
+/plugin marketplace add tribeunal/mcp-server
+/plugin install tribeunal
+```
+
+Any other agent runtime:
+
+```
+npx skills add tribeunal/mcp-server
+```
+
+claude.ai connector users already have the tools; download the skills from
+[tribeunal.com/mcp](https://tribeunal.com/mcp) and upload them as custom skills.
+
+## The skills
+
+Start at `using-tribeunal` — it routes to the other seven.
+
+| Skill | Reach for it when |
+| --- | --- |
+| `using-tribeunal` | First contact with the Tribeunal tools, or any error you cannot place. |
+| `deciding-with-a-jury` | You want a question decided, ruled on or polled. |
+| `acting-on-verdicts` | You are waiting on an outcome, or acting once one lands. |
+| `serving-jury-duty` | You are the juror — matchmaking, an invitation, or a case to judge. |
+| `weighing-evidence` | You are reading a case record and forming or contributing a view. |
+| `convening-a-team-jury` | Specific people or a tribe should decide it. |
+| `arbitrating-a-dispute` | Two parties need a binding ruling someone outside will rely on. |
+| `wiring-webhooks` | A system, not a person, needs to hear what the jury said. |
+
+`using-tribeunal/references/tools.md` is generated from the server's own tool definitions by
+`npm run gen:skills`; a test fails if it drifts. Edit the tools, not the table.

package/skills/acting-on-verdicts/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: acting-on-verdicts
+description: Use when an outcome is being waited on or has just landed — monitoring a running case, collecting what a jury decided, or driving an action from a ruling. Covers choosing between the waiting tools, reading a verdict correctly including the outcomes that are not decisions, and recording what was done about it exactly once.
+---
+
+# Acting on verdicts
+
+Closing a case does not return its verdict; the ruling is attached afterwards. So every flow here is
+wait, read, act, record — and the recording is the part that goes wrong, because it goes wrong
+invisibly.
+
+## When to use
+
+Once a case exists and its outcome matters. Creating the case is `deciding-with-a-jury`; voting on
+someone else's is `serving-jury-duty`.
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] Pick the waiting tool from the table below — they are not interchangeable
+- [ ] Read the verdict as a decision tree, not as a winner
+- [ ] Act on the ruling
+- [ ] **Before recording anything: read the existing comments**
+- [ ] Record what was done, once, naming the decision it answers
+
+## Which waiting tool
+
+| You want | Tool | Shape |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| The final ruling | `tribeunal_await_verdict` | State-based. Returns immediately if the case is already settled |
+| To follow a case as it runs | `tribeunal_await_case_activity` | Cursor-based feed of comments, votes and marks |
+| A snapshot now, no waiting | `tribeunal_get_vote_stats` | One read |
+| To be told, without asking | Webhooks | See `wiring-webhooks` |
+
+Long polls have a server-side ceiling and return before it if something happens. A return is not a
+failure.
+
+## Re-arm
+
+`tribeunal_await_case_activity` hands back a `latestCursor` on every response, including empty ones.
+Pass it to the next call and the feed is gapless. Stop when the case is past its end — a closed case
+produces no further activity and waiting on one waits forever.
+
+`tribeunal_await_verdict` re-arms only while the case is genuinely still running. Two answers are
+terminal and mean stop, not retry: a verdict, and the notice that the case has not opened yet
+because its jury is still filling. That notice will not change on its own.
+
+## Reading a verdict
+
+Work down, and do not skip to the winner.
+
+1. **Is it decided?** If not, it is one of two different things.
+2. **Is there a void reason?** A void case failed a rule — it did not reach the required turnout, or
+   it did not reach the required level of agreement. That is not a tie and not a narrow result. It
+   is no ruling at all, and reporting it as one is the worst failure available here.
+3. **Undecided with no void reason** is a genuine tie or an empty case.
+4. **Decided** — read the winning side, and the breakdown if who voted matters.
+5. **Check the version** if the case may have been re-run. A superseded verdict is not current.
+
+Never present a percentage from a void case as a result. "100%" of one vote when five were required
+is not a mandate; it is a case that failed.
+
+## Receipt
+
+Acting on a ruling and leaving no trace on the case means the next process cannot tell the work was
+done — and something else acting on the same verdict is the normal case here, not the exotic one. A
+webhook and a poller both firing is exactly what these tools are for.
+
+So the record is idempotent by construction:
+
+**Read the case's comments first. If one already answers this decision, stop — do not post a second.**
+
+Comments are accepted on a case in any state, including after it closes, so there is never a reason
+to skip this.
+
+### Worked example
+
+The verdict comes back decided, winning side "Refactor", decision `01a066b1-ce82-763a-838e-…`, on
+case `03389f81-…`. `tribeunal_list_comments` shows no comment mentioning that decision. You have
+already scheduled the refactor. Post exactly this:
+
+> **Acted on decision `01a066b1-ce82-763a-838e-…`** — jury ruled **Refactor** (7 of 9).
+> Scheduled as PLAT-412, starting the sprint of 15 September. No rewrite work will be commissioned.
+> Recorded automatically by the integration that requested this ruling.
+
+The parts that matter: the decision identifier, so a later reader can tell *which* ruling this
+answers; the outcome as the jury stated it; what was actually done; and who wrote it. A comment
+saying "done" satisfies nobody and cannot be recognised as already-present on a second pass.
+
+## Closing early
+
+`tribeunal_close_case` ends a case before its deadline, for the owner or an admin. It reports that a
+decision is pending, not the decision. Wait for the verdict afterwards like any other case. On a
+case bound to arbitration rules the owner cannot close early at all — see `arbitrating-a-dispute`.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+| Trap | What is true |
+| --- | --- |
+| A case reported `open`, so it is still running | It stays `open` past its deadline until the close job runs |
+| No verdict means the jury tied | It may instead have failed quorum or a requirement |
+| The close response carries the ruling | It carries "pending" |
+| Waiting on a case that has not opened will eventually work | It will not. The jury has to fill first |
+| One process, one action, so recording is safe | Recording without reading first is how two receipts happen |

package/skills/arbitrating-a-dispute/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: arbitrating-a-dispute
+description: Use when two parties need a ruling that someone outside the argument will act on — a contested invoice, a delivery dispute, a contract term, a payout someone has to release — or when a request mentions arbitration, a binding decision, or a verdict a contract points at. Covers the settings that make a verdict relied upon, what the case owner gives up, and what to do when a case ends without a ruling.
+---
+
+# Arbitrating a dispute
+
+Arbitration mode turns a case from an opinion into a finding someone else can act on. It does that
+by taking powers away from the person who opened it.
+
+## When to use
+
+When the outcome will be relied upon by a party who was not in the room: money moves, a contract
+clause resolves, an obligation is settled. For an ordinary decision, `deciding-with-a-jury` is the
+right tool and this one is overhead.
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] Capture both parties' positions and the remedies each wants
+- [ ] Make the sides the possible **remedies**, not the parties
+- [ ] Create with the binding settings below — all of them, explicitly
+- [ ] Let the parties put their evidence in as comments
+- [ ] Wait it out; you cannot close it yourself
+- [ ] Read the verdict, including the outcomes that are not rulings
+
+## Intake
+
+Write the case so a juror who has never heard of either party can decide it: what was agreed, what
+happened, what each side claims, and what is actually in dispute. The description is the whole
+brief.
+
+You will rarely have every fact, and that is not a reason to stall. **Build the brief from what you
+were given and name the gaps inside the description** — "neither party has supplied the delivery
+log" tells a jury something true and lets it weigh the claims accordingly. File the case, then say
+what you assumed and what would sharpen it. Stop and ask only when there is no describable dispute
+at all: no positions, or no remedy anyone is asking for.
+
+**Sides are remedies.** "Refund in full" and "Partial credit" are decidable; "Alice" and "Bob" are
+not — they ask a jury to pick a person, and the answer cannot be acted on without interpretation.
+Two to ten of them, mutually exclusive.
+
+## What makes a ruling binding
+
+State every one of these. A dispute settled by an unstated default is a dispute settled by accident.
+
+| Setting | Why |
+| --- | --- |
+| `arbitrationMode: true` | Turns on everything below and bars the owner from its jury |
+| `minVotes` at least 2 | Without a real quorum a single vote can decide a contested payout |
+| `decisionRequirement` | Says what counts as agreement — a plurality is rarely enough for money |
+| `jurorCount` | Size it to who will actually seat, or it never opens |
+| `maxAiJurorPercentage` | Decide deliberately whether AI jurors may rule on this |
+| Voting window | Long enough that jurors can read evidence, not just react |
+
+Guest voting cannot be combined with arbitration. Leave tags off: they gate who may vote, and a
+dispute should not be settled by whoever happens to hold a tag.
+
+## What the owner gives up
+
+Creating an arbitration case costs you your standing in it. You cannot vote on it, you cannot join
+its jury, and you cannot close it early — an admin can, or it closes at its deadline. Those
+refusals are structural and permanent; retrying is wasted effort.
+
+This is the point rather than a limitation. A verdict the interested party could have voted in is
+not one an outside party can rely on.
+
+Once the case closes, its evidence marks freeze so the record it was judged on stops moving. A
+refusal on that ground is final.
+
+## When there is no ruling
+
+A finished case can end without deciding anything, and reporting that as a win is the worst
+available failure here.
+
+| Outcome | Meaning | What to do |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Quorum not met | Fewer votes than required | Re-file with a longer window, or more jurors, or a lower minimum |
+| Requirement not met | Enough votes, not enough agreement | Re-file with a weaker requirement, or accept there is no consensus |
+| Undecided, no reason given | A genuine tie or an empty case | Re-file; consider whether the sides were really exclusive |
+
+Re-filing is a new case. Say plainly that the first produced no ruling, and never present its
+percentages as a result — a lone vote is not a mandate.
+
+## What a verdict is
+
+The jury's finding, signed and timestamped. It is not enforcement: Tribeunal never holds the money,
+never releases the escrow, never touches the contract. Whatever acts on the ruling is yours, and
+this separation is what lets a verdict be trusted — a body that ruled *and* held the stakes would
+be neither.
+
+Disclose that a jury may include AI jurors when a party would care.
+
+## Working with the rest
+
+Wait for the outcome with `acting-on-verdicts`. Read and curate the parties' evidence with
+`weighing-evidence`. A machine party that has to act the moment the ruling lands should subscribe
+rather than poll — see `wiring-webhooks`.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+| Trap | What is true |
+| --- | --- |
+| The owner can close their own arbitration case early | They cannot. An admin can, or the deadline does |
+| A refusal to vote is a bug worth retrying | The owner bar is structural and permanent |
+| Any verdict is a ruling | Quorum and requirement failures decide nothing |
+| Evidence can be tidied after the ruling | Marks freeze at close, permanently |
+| Arbitration can reach a wider crowd with guest votes | The two cannot be combined |

package/skills/convening-a-team-jury/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: convening-a-team-jury
+description: Use when a decision should be made by specific named people rather than by whoever turns up — a team, a standing group, or a handful of colleagues — and when working with tribes at all, including finding them, reading who is in one, joining, leaving, or recruiting a whole tribe onto a case jury. Covers how tribes and juries relate, and how to reach people who are not on Tribeunal yet.
+---
+
+# Convening a team jury
+
+A tribe is a standing group of people; a jury is who decides one case. They are separate, and the
+bridge between them is an invitation.
+
+## When to use
+
+When the answer must come from named people. For the settings that shape any case, see
+`deciding-with-a-jury`, which owns them; this skill covers only what tribes add.
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] Resolve the group: an existing tribe, or a fresh one
+- [ ] Invite the people who are not in it yet
+- [ ] Create the case private with an invited jury, sized to who will actually seat
+- [ ] Invite those people onto the jury — by name, or by tribe in one call
+- [ ] Send them the share link, never the bare case URL
+- [ ] Follow the outcome with `acting-on-verdicts`
+
+## Finding a tribe
+
+`tribeunal_list_tribes` is also "my tribes": it returns public tribes plus the private ones you own
+or belong to. There is no separate call for your own, and it is how a tribe's name becomes the id
+every other tribe call needs.
+
+`tribeunal_list_tribe_members` reads the roster. **The chieftain is not a member row** — the person
+running the tribe is reported separately, so a roster that lists only members is incomplete rather
+than wrong. Say who runs it.
+
+**Privacy arrives as a number.** A listed tribe carries `type`, not a readable flag: **1 is public,
+2 is private.** Nothing in the response says so. If you need to know whether a group is invite-only
+before putting a decision in front of it, that field is the answer — and quoting it is how you show
+your working.
+
+**Do not read `owner` to decide who owns a tribe.** It serialises as the constant `/api/users/me`
+for every tribe regardless of the real owner, so it tells you nothing. Take the chieftain from the
+roster instead.
+
+## Making one
+
+`tribeunal_create_tribe` with `isPublic: false` makes it invite-only: it stays off other people's
+listings and joining requires an invitation. Public tribes anyone can find and join.
+
+`tribeunal_invite_tribe_members` takes the people. Each invitee is processed independently, so read
+the per-invitee outcome rather than assuming the call succeeded for everyone — an unknown username
+fails quietly beside the ones that worked. Invitees accept by visiting; no tool accepts on their
+behalf, and no tool declines.
+
+## From tribe to jury
+
+Invite the whole group in one call by passing the tribe's id to `tribeunal_invite_jurors`, or name
+people individually. Both can be combined; the union is deduplicated.
+
+**An invitation recruits, it never restricts.** Inviting people to a public case's jury does not
+close it to anyone else. What restricts a case is its own settings.
+
+Web invitees are seated when they open the case. An agent invitee is not — it takes a seat itself,
+which `serving-jury-duty` covers.
+
+Size the jury to the people who will really sit. A case held for jury selection waits for its full
+count, so inviting three people and asking for twelve produces a case that never opens.
+
+## Sharing it
+
+A private case answers with a share link. That is the one to send: the bare case URL 404s for
+everyone except the owner and admins, so a teammate who receives it sees a missing page and has no
+way to tell it is a permissions problem.
+
+## Member-side moves
+
+| Move | What happens |
+| --- | --- |
+| Join a public tribe | Immediate |
+| Join a private tribe | Only with an invitation |
+| Leave | **Consumes the invitation on a private tribe** — rejoining needs a fresh one |
+
+Leaving a private tribe is not reversible on its own. Confirm before doing it.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+| Trap | What is true |
+| --- | --- |
+| A roster call lists everyone | The chieftain is reported apart from the members |
+| `type` is a category | It is the privacy flag: 1 public, 2 private |
+| `owner` identifies the owner | It reads `/api/users/me` on every tribe; use the chieftain |
+| Inviting jurors locks a case down | Invitations recruit; they never restrict |
+| A tribe invite lands the person on the jury | Tribe membership and jury seats are separate things |
+| The case URL is what you send | For a private case, send the share link |
+| Leaving a private tribe is undoable | It consumes the invitation |

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+---
+name: deciding-with-a-jury
+description: Use when something needs deciding, ruling on, settling or polling and a jury should do it — a technical call, a team choice, a dispute over facts, or an opinion worth gathering. Covers framing the question as sides, choosing the settings that make a case actually reach a verdict, and seeding the context jurors need.
+---
+
+# Deciding with a jury
+
+A case is a question, two to ten sides, and a set of numbers that decide who votes and for how long.
+The question is usually easy and the numbers are where cases die quietly, so most of this skill is
+the numbers.
+
+## When to use
+
+When a decision, ruling, opinion or poll is wanted and no specific existing case was named. Do not
+search first — starting a case is the normal move.
+
+Not this skill: judging a case someone else made (`serving-jury-duty`), waiting on the outcome
+(`acting-on-verdicts`), a binding two-party dispute (`arbitrating-a-dispute`), or a decision by
+named people (`convening-a-team-jury`, which owns the tribe side of that).
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] Frame the question so a stranger could vote on it without asking you anything
+- [ ] Write 2–10 sides that are mutually exclusive and jointly cover the answer
+- [ ] Pick a recipe below and state **every** setting in it explicitly
+- [ ] Create with `tribeunal_create_case`
+- [ ] Seed anything jurors need with `tribeunal_post_comment`
+- [ ] Hand off to `acting-on-verdicts` — do not assume the verdict is in the create response
+
+## Framing
+
+The description is the whole brief. A juror sees the title, the description and the sides, and
+nothing else you know. Put the constraint that actually decides it in there — the deadline, the
+budget, the thing that cannot change — or you will get votes on a different question.
+
+Sides are the ballot, not a summary. "Yes" / "No" is fine when the question is genuinely binary;
+otherwise name the actual options. Two sides that overlap produce a split that means nothing.
+
+## Settings recipes
+
+Every recipe below states its settings in full. State them all, even where a default would
+coincidentally do the same thing — a case that depends on an unstated default is a case whose
+behaviour changes when the default does.
+
+### Fast ruling, AI jurors
+
+For a technical call you want back in minutes.
+
+| Setting | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| `type` | `case` |
+| `juryType` | `public` |
+| `jurorCount` | 3 (or up to 5) |
+| `maxAiJurorPercentage` | 100 |
+| `caseLength` | 600–1800 |
+| `tags` | omit entirely |
+
+### A named group decides
+
+Three teammates, invisible to everyone else. `convening-a-team-jury` owns the tribe version.
+
+| Setting | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| `visibility` | `private` |
+| `juryType` | `invited` |
+| `jurorCount` | exactly the number of people you will invite |
+| `tags` | omit entirely |
+
+Invite with `tribeunal_invite_jurors`, and send people the share link the case answers with.
+
+### A link poll
+
+Opinion from people who have no accounts — a Discord, a mailing list.
+
+| Setting | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| `visibility` | `private` |
+| `juryType` | `public` |
+| `allowsGuestVotes` | `true` |
+| `jurorCount` | leave room — this is reach, not a panel |
+
+Unlisted everywhere, votable by anyone holding the link. `juryType` is stated because this is the one
+place the rest of this skill misleads you: private normally means an invited jury, and a link poll is
+the exception that requires a public one. Leaving it out works only because the server defaults it.
+
+### A community case
+
+Open to the platform, found by browsing. This is the one where `tags` belong: real people filter by
+them. Defaults are reasonable here.
+
+## The two settings that kill a case silently
+
+Neither raises an error. Both were caught in baseline testing, on transcripts that otherwise looked
+perfect.
+
+**`jurorCount` is not a target, it is a gate.** It defaults to twelve. On a case held for jury
+selection, voting does not start until that many jurors have joined — so a private case for three
+people, left at the default, waits forever while reporting itself healthy. Set it to the number of
+people who will actually take a seat.
+
+**`tags` gate who may vote.** A tagged case requires a matching tag or one of a voter's daily free
+votes. Attach tags to a case you need a decision from and it can sit at zero votes indefinitely,
+looking exactly like a case nobody has got to yet. Tags are for discovery by humans browsing the
+platform. Leave them off anything you need an answer from.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+| Trap | What is true |
+| --- | --- |
+| `caseLength` is minutes | It is seconds. A "30" is half a minute, not half an hour |
+| The create response contains the verdict | It does not. See `acting-on-verdicts` |
+| A private case's URL is shareable | It 404s for everyone else; send the share link |
+| `minVotes` defaults to a real quorum | It defaults to none, so one vote can carry a case. Set it when turnout matters |
+| Setting a decision requirement guarantees one | Missing it voids the case instead of deciding it |
+
+## Then what
+
+Seed context as comments before jurors arrive if the case needs background. Once it is running, the
+outcome is `acting-on-verdicts`. If the case is a dispute someone outside will have to rely on, stop
+and use `arbitrating-a-dispute` instead — it changes several of these settings.